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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: OK_Cat on August 21, 2013, 01:24:24 PM
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so there is a house about 6 houses down the street from mine that has been for sale for several months. i drive by it everyday to and from work.
with all of the rain that we've received this summer (praise jesus!), the lawn at this location has become very unsightly. giving it a drive-by estimate, i would say that the grass is at least 4 feet tall.
i've called and complained to the real estate company that has their sign on the curb, but they haven't done anything about it.
so what should i do? obviously, i shouldn't start a fire in the tall grass, even though it wouldn't look suspicious and i would probably get away with it.
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That yard is a potential fire hazard. I would call the city and ask them to spray herbicide over the entire yard. Your problem will be taken care of in about a week's time.
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Call city. Most have loose rule of certain height being excessive and fineable
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those ideas sound too reasonable.
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Borrow some livestock for grazing.
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I would kill a hooker and throw him/her in the lawn. CSI will mow when they're done.
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Call city. Most have loose rule of certain height being excessive and fineable
Yeah, they will fine the landowner and then they will demolish the yard so the shitty real estate company will feel the burn as well.
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mow it and then send the owners a bill for $5000
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Tordon
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Round up a bunch of snakes and set them loose in the tall grass. That sounds like excellent snake habitat.
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http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=21302.0
:horrorsurprise: dlew and ok cat have lived next door this whole time!
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what if the snakes take over the neighborhood? i don't want to accidentally cause the demise of my area.
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Or if not Tordon...
Use Confront Herbicide.
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Commercial-grade product that needs to be heavily diluted. This stuff will kill everything.
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lol at you guys suggesting he notify the city about an ugly ass yard. he lives in oklahoma for pete's sake. :lol:
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http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=21302.0
:horrorsurprise: dlew and ok cat have lived next door this whole time!
:eek:
the only way that is possible is if dlew is a really butchy lesbian. and lost his house to foreclosure or something.
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lol at you guys suggesting he notify the city about an ugly ass yard. he lives in oklahoma for pete's sake. :lol:
Leave Pete out of this. This has nothing to do with KCK Mexican food.
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what if the snakes take over the neighborhood? i don't want to accidentally cause the demise of my area.
Toss a bunch of rats and mice into the tall grass, and those snakes will be in heaven. Why would they ever leave?
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great neighborhood you got there, OK Cat.
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great neighborhood you got there, OK Cat.
it's actually pretty great...lots of old people. i think we all pay the same mexican guy to mow our yards, so they all look great except for this one house.
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The city will send a mow notice, then they have like a month to take care of it. It's a really slow process.
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i just called and didn't even talk to a person, the city has a voicemail set up for complaints. :flush:
it's going to look like that horrible will smith movie by the time they do something about it
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Guys, what if these people also had really shitty looking dog kennel in the back. Would it be wrong to place a Craigslist ad for FREE DOG KENNEL COME AND GET IT???
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Guys, what if these people also had really shitty looking dog kennel in the back. Would it be wrong to place a Craigslist ad for FREE DOG KENNEL COME AND GET IT???
i would go in the back and look for anything of value, but i don't want to be bit by snakes
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so what should i do?
Whatever you want.
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trim 3:16 says to pour gasoline everywhere
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move
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trim 3:16 says to pour gasoline everywhere
Make sure to video tape it.
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move
wintz gets more like steve dave ever day.
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Offer the realtor like five thou for the house. No one cares about it anyway.
That is assuming that five thou is ridic cheap for a house in OK and not super expensive.
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I would be a good neighbor and mow it myself. :dunno:
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I would be a good neighbor and mow it myself. :dunno:
Kind of my thought. If it is that tall maybe a weedeater would be better? :dunno:
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I would be a good neighbor and mow it myself. :dunno:
Kind of my thought. If it is that tall maybe a weedeater would be better? :dunno:
This would probably work better.
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I would be a good neighbor and mow it myself. :dunno:
Kind of my thought. If it is that tall maybe a weedeater would be better? :dunno:
This would probably work better.
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GOAT commercials ever.
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I would be a good neighbor and mow it myself. :dunno:
Kind of my thought. If it is that tall maybe a weedeater would be better? :dunno:
The bank isn't your neighbor. They are shitting on your neighborhood in this instance.
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mow a swastika into it while wearing a fur coat.
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mow a swastika into it while wearing a fur coat.
best suggestion yet
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I would kill a hooker and throw him/her in the lawn. CSI will mow when they're done.
Nice job thinking outside the box.
:thumbs:
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I would be a good neighbor and mow it myself. :dunno:
Kind of my thought. If it is that tall maybe a weedeater would be better? :dunno:
The bank isn't your neighbor. They are shitting on your neighborhood in this instance.
If it bugs you enough to complain on a BBS then its prob worth the 30 minutes or so it would take to mow the lawn.
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Everyone chip in on the cost to have the same lawn guy take care of it in a quick way.
Also, WTF is with all the olds who don't mow their own? Old guys live for that crap. Give one of them gas money and let him fill his afternoon with some most likely welcomed activity that doesn't make him hate every second of the afternoon until Jeopardy comes on.
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I would be a good neighbor and mow it myself. :dunno:
Kind of my thought. If it is that tall maybe a weedeater would be better? :dunno:
The bank isn't your neighbor. They are shitting on your neighborhood in this instance.
If it bugs you enough to complain on a BBS then its prob worth the 30 minutes or so it would take to mow the lawn.
Yeah, typing that out here when he would have spent the time on gE regardless is unquestionably equivalent to mowing the bank's yard. Excellent point. Do the right thing OK Cat.
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Everyone chip in on the cost to have the same lawn guy take care of it in a quick way.
Also, WTF is with all the olds who don't mow their own? Old guys live for that crap. Give one of them gas money and let him fill his afternoon with some most likely welcomed activity that doesn't make him hate every second of the afternoon until Jeopardy comes on.
Nonsense, all of what you just wrote. "Be the banks bitch and if not that then impose on some old man in the neighborhood by giving him rough ridin' gas money because I'm a dumbass and think all old men like yard work and are grateful to have it." :flush:
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Some sort of fast track of the adverse possession thing should be tested out in court.
Either that or the HOA should try to take it by eminent domain or some crap.
I mean, it's OK, a few Latin phrases and it will be yours by means of shear confusion alone, right?
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good news! the lady at the city called me back and assured me that they would be notifying the property owner within 2 business days. so that means they'll get this thing mowed by the end of never. :flush:
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good news! the lady at the city called me back and assured me that they would be notifying the property owner within 2 business days. so that means they'll get this thing mowed by the end of never. :flush:
$200 yard mowing, tho
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Everyone chip in on the cost to have the same lawn guy take care of it in a quick way.
Also, WTF is with all the olds who don't mow their own? Old guys live for that crap. Give one of them gas money and let him fill his afternoon with some most likely welcomed activity that doesn't make him hate every second of the afternoon until Jeopardy comes on.
Nonsense, all of what you just wrote. "Be the banks bitch and if not that then impose on some old man in the neighborhood by giving him rough ridin' gas money because I'm a dumbass and think all old men like yard work and are grateful to have it." :flush:
OK_Cat, you could try :shakesfist: and just looking at it because the bank deserves to never sell that pile of crap and it will be for sale for like two years and will eff up your comps when you eventually sell and when it does sell it will be for so cheap that your neighborhood will be the first step up out of trailerville, OK.
This is the best strategy.
Once that thing sells and the new neighbor is painting his home maintained weekend race car in his driveway by standing on the hood and going nuts with the sprayer with a cig in his mouth and a PBR in the non-spraying hand, you will be happy that you weren't any bank's bitch.
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buy the house, okcat. rent it to people who arent trashy.
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Call the real estate agency, pretend to be an interested buyer and ask for a tour. They will either mow it before the tour or it will still look like crap and you can complain about how the yard just looks so terrible and you don't even want to go inside the house until it's been mowed.
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you can't see the house from my house, it's around a corner, so i'm thinking my house is in the clear.
the house in question is a really nice house, fwiw. that's the insane part of the lawn mowing scenario.
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pretty sure they had someone looking at it a couple of days ago, big grassy mess and all. :flush:
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Probs being sold "As Is" and they don't give a eff.
Also, around the corner doesn't mean crap when it comes to comps for your future sale.
One of my comps when negotiating on Casa de CNS y los muertos was like 3 miles away.
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buy the house, okcat. rent it to people who arent trashy.
unpossible, trashy and rent go together better than KU and trashy
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good idea, shacks. :thumbs:
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FTR, I'm the oldest person on this website and I do not like to mow.
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FTR, I'm the oldest person on this website and I do not like to mow.
moderate post
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why the eff do you care if some house 6 houses down from you that is up for sale and currently being shown to prospective buyers has a shitty lawn? I honestly thought your original post was one of those copy-and-paste jobs from gpc.
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I would kill a hooker and throw him/her in the lawn. CSI will mow when they're done.
This does not sound like a moderate idea.
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buy them goats?
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buy them goats?
So, have you guys heard that several cities in the KC metro area are going to start using goats to maintain municipal property? Like the airport, some highway sides, etc?
Also, I just heard an interview on the radio yesterday that said that some famous cemetary(not arlington) in DC is doing this too and that they work great.
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why the eff do you care if some house 6 houses down from you that is up for sale and currently being shown to prospective buyers has a shitty lawn? I honestly thought your original post was one of those copy-and-paste jobs from gpc.
4 feet tall, rams. 4 feet tall.
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Vandalism might just be your best course of action here. I would buy about 10 boxes of these:
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and then scatter them throughout the yard. Then, buy a pack of cigarettes and every day as you drive by it, light one of them and throw it into the yard. It will only be a matter of time before one of those cigarettes "accidentally" hits one of those cubes, and that whole thing will go up very quickly from there.
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why the eff do you care if some house 6 houses down from you that is up for sale and currently being shown to prospective buyers has a shitty lawn? I honestly thought your original post was one of those copy-and-paste jobs from gpc.
4 feet tall, rams. 4 feet tall.
marvel at it. laugh about it. create a neighborhood betting pool as to how long it gets and/or when it gets mowed then hire somebody to mow it on your exact date and profit.
I still don't see what the big deal is.