The house owner came through! We had a feeling she had talked to them (DH talked to her Tuesday morning) as all week they had stopped parking in the street. Since the guy doesn't get home until like 10pm every night we figured if they were going to clean up it wasn't going to happen until this weekend. But, he got home about 8:30 last night. Obviously, none too happy as he's driving fast and screeches his truck and trailer around the corner and comes to a screeching halt in front of our houses. His wife had hooked her SUV up to one of their smaller trailers and moved it over to the side of the house. He pulled in with his big car trailer and loaded up one of the junk/non running trucks in his driveway and hauled it away. Then he came back with with no car trailer and loaded some stuff in the back of his pick up and left again. (when DH had talked to the home owner she said when she told them to get it cleaned up last summer/fall he had told her he had a friend on the other side of town he could take it all to....just didn't tell her he brought it all back after we bought our house).
It looks SO much better already this morning! They also had this rusted, dirty, crappy looking, what I think was one of those big BBQ's that sit on a little trailer just sitting on the side of the street - it was actually sitting on the vacant lot on their side, not even on their property. That appears to be gone or moved too. Just having them not park a car or two out in the street 24/7 is a big improvement on it's own.
I'm very glad we persisted and pursued following the covenants with the owner of the house. Sure, the renter guy won't be too happy, but that's not our problem. There was absolutely no reason he should have been allowed to have what amounted to a wrecking yard - small town or no small town. DH is going to give the home owner a call soon and thank her for taking steps to get this cleaned up. I'd say it's about 85-90% cleaned up now, so that is very nice indeed.
Progress!
ReplyDeleteMost definitely!
ReplyDeleteI hope he finishes the cleanup. If not, I would talk to the owner again. If people could not park on the street in our neighborhood, there would be problems for my next door neighbor. Her lot is not wide enough for a driveway.
ReplyDeleteI imagine they will this weekend. Keeping fingers crossed! Both of our driveways are 3 cars width, plus theirs is deep enough to allow 2 rows of cars. Between our lots and the street is a nice wide dirt/gravel shoulder area - that is where extra cars/visitors are supposed to park, if not room in driveway. Not right in the street. They had so much junk in their driveway and on the shoulders that they had to park in the street. I do get why that covenant is there - if there were houses on both sides and each side parked on the street there would be no way for anyone to drive down the street. There are other streets in town where the shoulder area is paved and people park in front of their houses, but they aren't parked right in the lane you are driving down LOL - these neighbors were parked right in the lane you drive down.
DeleteI'm glad to read this! No one should have to live next to a junker, especially when there are covenants in place to keep this from happening. Keep on the landlord until it is 100% cleaned up.
ReplyDeleteyes, it appears we will definitely have to keep on the landlord. The friendly neighbors across from us didn't seem to think their landlord will do much to get them to clean it up, but at least so far it's more cleaned up then it was before.
DeleteYeah!!!! Finally some good news!
ReplyDeletelet's hope it keeps going in a positive direction!
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