Rincewind

Jeepers. That home is gonna be on the block forever with all the liens it has. You may get an opportunity yet to mow their lawn and clean up dog poop, because you know they (or the bank) aren't going to have it taken care of while it's on the market.

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Sarcoma

Perhaps it will get put up for auction and you can just buy it yourself for pennies on the dollar.

Sarcoma

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Sarcoma.

Rincewind

But you'd still have to deal with all those liens :/

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PFunk

I live in rural Texas on the shores of a Corps of Engineers lake. For the uninitiated, that just screams, "white trash". They move out here because it's an 'unincorporated area', which means in terms of municipal regulations and enforcement, it's Dodge City. We're about to pull the trigger on a remodel of our 50-year-old house that used to be a fishing cabin. We're sinking a lot of money into it and we're about to find out just how state and county officials pay attention to what you're doing. But, most of the time, people move out here because it's cheap land and they can build without too many people asking questions about what they're doing. Which is great until their septic system collapses.

We live on about a one-acre plot and there's three families living on it. My in-laws have the big house (yes, I live next door to my in-laws. Wives don't like to leave their parents unless it's absolutely necessary), we have the smaller house that's about to get a lot bigger. Stepdaugher and son-in-law are moving back in with us in a couple of months. Ask me how I like that. Nah, it's okay. Son-in-law's an okay kid. He's the first guy my daughter has met that could hold down a job. It's kind of a small, rural Texas version of the Kennedy compound.

Anyhow, I'm a teacher, so I don't make millions, but we have a nice place. We cut the yard, we have a few hundred-year oaks and lots of nice shady cedars, a gazebo in the yard, hey, we're doing all right. We have flowers and rosebushes growing in our flower beds. We have three dogs, but two are permanently indoor. The forty-pound puppy lives outside and barks only when something actually comes into the yard. If it leaves, she usually shuts up and goes back to sleep. If she's lucky enough to be inside for the night, she never barks, which makes me question her earning her keep as a watchdog. Lazy doofus.

But it occurred to me, that if you asked any of my neighbors, I'd be the neighbor from Hell. Why? The census indicated that median age of our entire county hovers somewhere between Social Security eligibility and a cemetary plot. We are one of three families on our street with children under the age of 30. I'm sure they find my beautiful five-year-old daughter and handsome three-year-old son to be a nuisance, even though they can sit quietly through an entire church service.

I'd like to get even further out, way out there in the country, up around Santo and Weatherford where I grew up, but as long as the in-laws are alive, we're here.

We have a few meth tweakers living in some of the falling-apart rent shacks out here, but unless they blow themselves up, the local law enforcement ignores them. They leave well enough alone, too. I know. I teach some of their kids. You wonder why little Sally dresses the way she does and does as poorly in school she does until you see Momma walk into the school for a parent-teacher-principal conference wearing a Daisy Dukes with pubes peeking out, a tube top, a cigarette in one hand, six teeth, and a tattoo of the Virgin Mary on her right shoulder. Then you stop wondering as soon as you successfully fight the urge to vomit.

I am probably the most stable adult a lot of kids will ever see. And some of you oughta consider that you might be the only stable and sane person some kids will ever come in contact with on a regular basis.

pfunk

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Pickle

+ rep enroute! Too funny. Yet....sad and true as well.

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DLBlue

Oh sadness I reached the end of this thread. On a side note, I am fairly patience/carefree, or so I thought. I woulda shot these people on page 5 tops.

Where is natural selection at work when you need it?

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Tarenth

Natural selection died when it favors not the successful and intelligent, but the one that can think up bogus law suits and cheat the system more.

I wish I thought of sueing McDonalds because their hot coffee was hot. I mean...hot coffee...who would've thought it'd be hot? Or the family that sued their wireless provider because their contract specficially stated it does not support 911 calls in bold underlined text with its own subparagraph explaining the reasons why because their 911 calls didn't go through.

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JMJ

Okay, I'm still going to do the pictures, I promise. Today he showed up and took some stuff from the garage and bailed quickly. I also found out where they moved to, one of my neighbors saw them outside setting up the play structure at their new place.......they moved 0.7 miles (yes, 7 tenths) from here, they can be here in 2 minutes if they want to. The last thing I need is for them to catch me snapping photos of their destruction I actually drive by it on my way to work each morning and have never noticed.

Oh, they moved onto a main road, a VERY busy main road. I'm thinking that their kids could possibly get plowed down by a vehicle.

jonan_

At least when they are gone you will still be able to keep us up to date. Maybe even snap a few pictures of there new house on your way home from work.

Boot

Yeah, and get a picture of their new neighbors too. I want to see a time lapse of how haggard and sleepless those poor innocent sods become over the next several months!

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Trooper

I was thinking the same thing, out of sight but not out of mind.....


maybe even give their new neighbors a copy of this thread and get them to sign up so they can give us up to date updates.

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jonan_

or talk to the neighbors about a book deal with interviews of the family members, neighbors, friends and of course include tons of pictures. It is only a matter of time before the news crews storm in and steel JMJ's story

JMJ

Psycho showed up this morning in her husband's truck. She grabbed the garden hose from the front yard and put one end in the above ground pool, the other end over the edge of the yard into the yard behind their house. Friggin brilliant. I called code enforcement and they said they can legally drain the pool in their own yard, but if it goes into someone else's yard, then there's a problem.

My wife told me psycho picked up some toys that were in the driveway and just tossed them into the yard, the drove up into the grass in the front yard, backing up to the front door. She hit her driver's side mirror on the mailbox and bent it. She loaded up some crap into the truck and took off. My wife checked, the pool is not draining yet. Gonna have more updates today, standby.

DLBlue

Sweeeeet...

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jonan_

Haha, she must not know how to syphon water. She probably thinks sticking the hose in the pool will give the water the escape opertunity it has been looking for and it will run through the hose by itself.