Do you have problem neighbors? How does a non-confrontational woman deal with really bad neighbors? I try not to let the little stuff bother me. Over 12 years I have watched this family deteriorate. I feel sorry for them. At the same time, I pray every day that they get foreclosed upon, or she loses her daycare liscence, or the sneaky little boy finally gets caught doing something really bad and they takehim away.
The stuff that goes on over there, I can't believe she still has clients. My son's birthday party, and they are throwing stuff over the fence. Fishing lures, of all things, at least not injurous, like the time theythrew rocks and hit my littlest onein the face. Non-confrontational I may be, but that time I went over there angry. I pounded on the door for 5 minutes. All the little daycare kids went running inside whenthey heard my DS scream and start crying. You would think at least an adult daycare provider could answer the door? Nope.
It wasn't until I found her phone number and left a message on her answering machine that they could tlk to the cops if they didn't want totalk to me about it that they returned my phone call. The Grandmother was apparently filling in for the care provider, she wasn't there. Grandma proceeded to let me know she didn't know who did it, but that it wasn't her grandson.
Today, after watching more lures fly over the fence, I clean the pool and find a large, sharp, shard of concrete at the bottom of my pool, along with several Maryland river rocks, and more fishing lures. I'd had it. DH and I walked over there and knocked on her door. She didn't answer, but one of her daycare kids did. We ask for her and she comes to the door all defensive already. We tell her, we are not trying to be a bother, but this shit needs to stop.
We tell her about the party, she says she wasn't even home yesterday. We tell her that's besides the point. Her backyard was full of kids throwing stuff over the fence. She says she'll have to ask her son about it. No apology, no remorse. So then we give her the rocks and the concrete. She tells me it wasn't her daycare kids, they haven't been outside, an outright lie, because I was watching them while they played with a ball in the yard, and threw more fishing lures. She also proceeds to tell me it wasn't Anthony, becasue he's not home. I told her, I saw with my own eyes the fishing lures flying over the fence and the girls outside playing ball, and she proceeds to ask them if they threw anything over the fence. No they say.
I tell her I'm sure you couldn't afford to spend a mortgage payment on a new pool liner anymore than I can, and she needs to make sure it stops, and we left. So what do I do? What are my rights? Certainly not the first time I've thought of spending a mortgage payment on a video surveillance system to protect my property investment, since it seems I'm always lying to her. Show her proof? It's a damn shame. I have to hope their only goal was the willfull destruction of property, and not the injury or death of one of my kids or pets with that sharp chunk of concrete. Damn shame. Do I pray for them, or pray for deliverance from them? Any suggestions?
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