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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
The condo I warranting last year beforeI bought the house was bad.

Neighbors above me had a brood of three rotten pieces of crotch fruit in a 2 bedroom condo. The oldest of which was maybe 5. They would run wild at all hours and then there was always the loud, "THUNK" a brief moment of silence followed by screaming and crying. I went up and knocked on their door a couple of times when it was after 11:00PM and asked if they could quiet down. That was usually followed by dad screaming at the kids. Made me feel like an asshole. Then dad lost his job with the Covid lockdowns, made his wife park outside, moved an old dirty couch into the garage that the kids had decorated with markers and sat there with the garage door open smoking dope.

Then there was the crusty old fart across the alleyway. In the complex there were common alleys in which all the garages faced out on. He insisted on parking his beat up POS Saturn in front of his garage. It made maneuvering my truck into the garage a major PITA. Would basically have to parallel park in front of his car, then attempt to make the 90 degree right hand turn to enter may garage which usually entailed backing up and pulling forward 3 times in order to line up with the garage.

I tried talking with him about it and was basically told that his ability to park in front of his garage was more important than my ability to enter my own. Talked to my landlord, they went to the owner's association and were basically told to go pound sand. I wrote a strongly worded letter to the association explaining the situation. Explained to them that I was a trauma nurse and was required to work a certain number of shifts on call with a required 30 minute response time. Told them that not having access to my garage in winter posed a problem since having to warm the truck up and having to brush snow and scrape ice from the windshield would mean I could not respond in 30 minutes. Asked if one man's convenience was worth endangering a trauma patient with insufficient staffing. Solution was old fart was told not to park there during the winter months and then he went right back to parking there in the spring. Wrote another nasty letter to the association explaining that I was paying rent and expected to have access to my garage, was told to go pound sound, owner's convenience was more important than renter's expectations.

Then caught the old fart one night on my back deck trying to peer into my sliding glass door. It was a, "Tense" conversation with excuses of trying to see if I was home followed by a complaint of coming too close to his vehicle when I was maneuvering into my garage followed by advice of, "Then don't fucking park there." I filed a police report, he attempted to file a report, nothing happened.

Then caught him anther night actually inside my garage. Another tense confrontation with the excuse of, "I was trying to tell you the garage door is open." "Then what are you doing on that side of the garage when the door is over here?" Another police report filed, was considering filing a restraining order but decided it just wasn't worth it since the end of my lease was coming up and I was planning on moving anyway.

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"The trouble with our Liberal friends...is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan, 1964
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"Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn't matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon will just take a shit on the board, strut around knocking over all the pieces and act like it won.. and in some cases it will insult you at the same time." DevlDogs55, 2014
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Simple fact, dogs will shit. Owners don't care. And I outlasted all of them. Every single one. Some houses turned more than once, but I stood my ground and kept flinging.