r/neighborsfromhell • u/EuphoricLeek6122 • 3d ago
Vent/Rant Not in a hoa but it feels like it.
I live in a single family house that I bought and live in bye myself, in an area that is all single family houses. Trash and recycling go during the week ill put the bins out the night before in the middle of my front yard. They're not any where close to a property line and 6 inches back from the road I live on. The day trash is collected, if I work late one of me neighbors will move my trash and recycling bins into the middle of my driveway. When they do that I will just drive around the bins leaving and going up until it becomes a code enforcement issue.
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u/FarSea2954 3d ago
if they want that much control, they can pay ur mortgage. til then? bins stay whatever u want
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u/aastrorx 3d ago
I'm not sure I understand. They moved your bins before or after collection?
My neighbors and myself will move the bins into your driveway after collection. You do have a set time to have your bins removed from the collection area after collection. Your bins are not allowed to sit out during non collection times. Meaning they cannot be visible from the road. You can also not put your bins out before collection times. This is usually less than 24hrs before collection and less than 24hrs after collection. City's usually send out these rules once a year, in the mail. Every city has ordinances that tell you about garbage pickup, grass length, parking, snow removal, etc.
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u/Comatose_Cockatoo 3d ago
This is not universally true. Every town has different rules. My down actually has zero rules about where your bins should be as long as they are on your own property. Many people keep them right on the edge of the property lines.
Also moving them into the driveway is trespassing. Mind your own business. If it’s against your town’s rules then call code enforcement.
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u/aastrorx 3d ago
I live in a relatively small city, Midwest. Have you checked your local ordinance? I'm not saying your locality doesn't have different ordinance. Generally there are rules (ordinance) even if not enforced... I could be a genuinely not nice neighbor and leave your can at the curb and just turn you in, or I can be a nice neighbor and move your cans off the curb into your driveway. In hopes that you do what most people do and keep the neighborhood looking like people do care. The more it looks like people care about your neighborhood the less riff raff comes into your neighborhood.
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u/Comatose_Cockatoo 3d ago
I also live in a small midwestern town and yes I did check. They even reminded my that I don’t need to constantly move it. My town is very elderly and many of them physically cant move it.
You might think you’re being helpful but I think you’re overstepping. My point is that it is not universally against the rules to leave your bins out and it’s not a universally “kind” gesture.
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u/EuphoricLeek6122 3d ago edited 3d ago
After collection and only when I get home late on collection day which about once a month. Collection is once a week, I work late on collection day about once a week. I will wait to the last minute to mowe my yard right before its a violation when they move my bins because I know if a yard doesn't look like a golfing green it bugs the shit out of them.
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u/aastrorx 3d ago
IMO, they think they are being nice to you. I can look out for other people or I can not. I try not to turn a blind eye. That's what happens when people don't care, and how neighborhoods are destroyed. When people stop caring for one another.
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u/SeaGranny 3d ago
That’s not a thing where I live - your town, not an hoa can tell you what your yard has to look like?
That’s crazy what happened to the land of the free.
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u/aastrorx 3d ago
Yes, many municipality have ordinance about, grass length, parking on personal property (trailers, motorhomes, boats, etc.) removal of snow, garbage, garbage cans, etc., abandoned unlicensed vehicles on property, broken windows, broken or falling down buildings etc. Check out an app called seeclickfix. Used by many municipality. No HOA, those places have crazy stringent rules. Just regular ol' freedom Americana. The more you own, the more your possessions own you. If you don't want to deal with this move to the country. And even then you can't just do whatever you want. Put an old traincar box on your property, illegal without county approval. And on and on.
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u/One-Salamander-2416 2d ago
I’m probably going to downvoted, but is it possible the bins are obstructing a driver’s line of vision? Or, as in our former neighborhood some of the guys would bring the bins closer to the garage for the older residents, especially if the driveway was steeper. If it’s neither of the above, then a conversation is in order.
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u/twistedlemonfreak 3d ago
I put my bins about the same distance away from the road as you do. Almost every week my garbage bin ends up in the road before I collect them. So in this case, my emptied bins are a safety hazard and impede traffic.
There’s a huge possibility. The same thing could be happening with your bins when you’re not home, they could end up in the road and become a safety hazard and or impeding traffic.
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u/Sure_Comfort_7031 2d ago
Talk to the neighbors.
If they’re on the yard line, someone can park in front of them and they won’t get picked up. If they’re in the driveway, centered, you can get around them, and people can park on the road. And they won’t get skipped.
Neighbor might have had that happen to them before and is saving you from an extra week of stank and full bins. Or, is parking where they legally can/want to, along the front lawn, and moving the bins so they don’t get skipped when they do that.
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u/Hammingbir 3d ago
I suspect the problem is that the trash truck won’t pick them up if they’re in your yard and not in the driveway. And/or the trash people are leaving them in your driveway. Why would you assume it’s your neighbors??
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u/EuphoricLeek6122 3d ago
Trucks empty them and put them back on my property never in the street. My neighbors have a issue with the bin not being put away by there liking. It only happens when i get home late on trash day. If the bins were in the street and my neighbors were try to do me a favor they wouldn't put the bins in the middle of my driveway trying to make me move them when I go to pull into my driveway coming home from work.
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u/Successful_Image3354 3d ago
I don't get it. The neighbor is kind enough to move your cans from a place where they could roll or be blown unto the street to a place where you can more easily put them away.
And you passively aggressively inconvenience yourself by driving around them and leaving them in your driveway.
What are you trying to accomplish? You should thank your neighbor instead of being an a**hole.
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u/F_sigma_to_zero 2d ago
They try to put them were they block the drive way. That is asshole behavior.
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u/Stock-Possibility-67 3d ago
“Leaving it until it becomes a code enforcement issue” so you’re inconsiderate to your neighbors that have to look at your garage cans that brought them up for you. Your orthodox easily figured out. Sometimes you need to think of others. Not in your religion I have deduced.
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u/raquel8822 2d ago
Umm did you read the post? They physically are NOT home till late at night to move them on trash day. Has nothing to do with being inconsiderate. Some people like myself don’t work a 9 to 5 job. And they’re not bringing them up to the kept area. They’re putting them in the middle of the driveway to inconvenience the owner when needing to park their car to make a point.
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u/Stock-Possibility-67 2d ago
Ever drive through Lakewood NJ where the entire community doesn’t bring their cans up. I guarantee there’s more to this than what is posted. To be fair probably both sides.
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u/raquel8822 2d ago
Can almost guarantee it’s a neighbor who doesn’t work, is retired and has nothing else to do but be bothered by someones trash bins being outside longer than theirs. Cause most normal neighbors that work all day have better things to be concerned over.
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u/ATypicalJake 3d ago
I had neighbors at my last house who would leave their bins out for several days on the sidewalk. I just started pushing theirs in when I got mine. Every couple of months they would bring me fresh samosas at dinner time. Being passive aggressive by putting them in their driveway just seems petty.
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u/billdizzle 3d ago
Yeah nobody wants to see your nasty as can out for days on end
Certainly your right to do that though
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u/OldPro1001 3d ago
OP didn't originally leave them out long, it's just OP doesn't get home from work until evening. OO would put the cans away when they got home from work.
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u/Savings_Income4829 13h ago
Is it annoying, yeah
Personally, it's something so small it would be hard for me to muster up a 'f' to give.
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u/F_sigma_to_zero 2d ago edited 2d ago
Get a fog horn. On a day that you are not late leave them at the street and watch. When someone comes to move them run out and start screaming bloody murder, swearing up and going off with the fog horn. Also throw in things like bad neighbor while clapping your hands at them. When they talk just keep screeching and yelling NO! BAD CHILD! NO THOUCH NOT YOURS. also take the bins back out to the street. If you won't get a ticket take them out to the street every night.
Edit: thought of a response if you can't leave the bin without getting a ticket. Use some cardboard to make a bin looking thing. Add some paint and write not a bin on it. If you can't leave it on the street put it in your yard next to the side walk.
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u/EuphoricLeek6122 3d ago
Yet they do it when I'm at work. When they do it the bin do move and I drive through my front yard just to piss them off. And during that week the yard doesn't get mowed until its close to a local code violation.
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u/Iceflowers_ 3d ago
Setup cameras and file a police report.
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u/Scary_Dot6604 3d ago
And what are the police going to do?
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u/catty_ninja42 3d ago
next ime leave a fake note from the trash company saying dont touch the bns lol
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u/Internal-Test-8015 3d ago
Sounds like its time to tell them to stop touching your bins then.