Neighbors with the loose cows are gone! Sold their property in 4 days for an astronomical $$$! I can stop the neighbor’s foolishness with electric fence.
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Texas is a non-disclosure state. :winkgrin:
That is, the seller is not required to disclose most issues (there are a few that they are). But if things are mentioned to the realtor there is a good chance that the realtor will disclose. The state realtor’s association strongly promotes ethical disclosure. Also they see the real estate laws going the way of more-regulated states. For whatever it’s worth. 
Petty as it seems it is a federal crime to destroy a mailbox. the police really could not have done anything about it so that might have been why they were annoyed.
http://www.residential-mailboxes.net/category/mailbox-laws-and-regulations
https://www.mailboss.com/mailboxes-federal-property/
I second getting one of those game cameras that send a photo to your email. Start building a hard case against these entitled creeps. Your neighbor almost reminds me of the creepy lawnmower guy and his family.
I was going to post some links with the laws regarding destruction of mailboxes but the post was flagged as unapproved. When did that start?
Your new neighbors sound almost as bad as the creepy lawnmower guy and his family. Good luck educating them. I like the idea of the game camera that emails a photograph when triggered.
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It has been going on for quite some time. It is a side affect of filtering system that tries to prevent spam. There is a thread about it in the technical help forum that tells you how to deal with it. You have to contact Moderator 1 to have them send the post thru.
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This type of attitude, IMO, helps perpetuate misbehaving juveniles (usually in these low level property crimes). Sigh.
Destroying a mailbox or egging a car or spray painting graffiti on the board fence as well as potentially TPing someone’s home is property damage. It is, really.
If you don’t get the egg washed off the car fast enough, the proteins can damage the paint on the car.
If my mailbox was smashed, I would expect LE to take a report to forward on to their crime analyst to be tracking patterns of behavior. If 10 mailboxes in a row are smashed, something to look at. If 5 mailboxes are smashed every Saturday night in the same neighborhood, something to look at. Not always but sometimes the offenders are caught. I guarantee they won’t be caught if no one says anything or reports the damage.
There was property damage. It is LE’s job to take a report. Too bad if they are annoyed. I would be annoyed my mailbox was smashed. It’s rarely just a single mailbox that’s smashed either. Usually it’s a bunch of them in a row on the same street. You only see your single mailbox unless you drove down the street looking for more.
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Property taxes are very high in Texas but it has no income tax. They have a state sales tax also.
Florida has no income tax as well. I get really annoyed when snowbird retirees, who do not have Florida Homestead Exemption because they are part time residents, complain about the property taxes. Become a resident. Get HE.
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Bumping this up as I just had a visit from AC.
Why, you ask?
Because my neighbor - The Chicken Nazi* - reported my 3 hens as an issue.
Seems while freeranging a couple days ago a single hen crossed the road & walked on her grass.
Joke’s on her as hens have been penned in their fenced yard since & AC guy not only witnessed that, but went out of his way to compliment my farmette.
*5 or 6 years ago a different Flock of 5 that I allowed to free-range, committed the same offense.
I apologized with a dozen eggs & was told she understood as she “had chickens when I was in 4H”. So, not a Citiot, but Countryfolk.
Peace & Quiet for the next 5yrs.
I got new hens through attrition - fox took 3 in a day, a couple died as chickens sometimes do…
New flock freeranged & no complaints.
At least not in person, to me.
Then last Summer 2 Sherriff’s officers rang my bell to report 2 complaints & advised a 3rd would mean hens would be confiscated.
I’ve kept them in Chicken Gitmo since.
A rift in my fencing had allowed escape of the one hen a couple days ago.
Since repaired, but I guess the sight of a single hen wadded CN’s panties.
At least no one is feeding my horses besides me.
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Point out that chickens are great for “bug/tick control”!!
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People are weird.
The occasional strange chicken in my yard is the least of my worries.
I’m also an adult with communication skills, so I’d walk across the street and tell the neighbor because they may not know that 1. The chicken is out 2. There is a breach in security 3. That the chicken crosses the road if left to her own freewill.
I didn’t even know that Animal Control would show up for something like that as it sounds like many people have issues with them coming out or doing anything about LEGITIMATE issues that involve ACTUAL SUFFERING of an animal.
If your chickens were showing up everyday and being destructive in some manner and I had spoken to you on numerous occasions with no resolve, then maybe I’d contact the authorities. FFS.
Maybe I’m just getting old and tired, but I don’t have the time nor the energy to be so concerned and petty.
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Welcome to the “new generation” of country dwellers!
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@crosscreeksh Since CN was in 4H, you’d think she knew this :rolleyes:
@CanteringCarrot Apparently it takes all sorts to make a 'hood.
What makes it a bit odder is this woman drove at one time - lovely carriage in her garage & aged Chestnut mare in her now-vacant pastures.
Her BFF is the mother of my Faux Grandson - neighbor kid who is my self-appointed barn help.
They have Hackney Ponies & raise turkeys every year.
Guess as long as the gobble gobble is contained, unlike my rogue poultry, CN is happy.
Your neighbor is lucky she only gets one chicken. We used to get a dozen peacocks roaming around our property several days a week. They’re loud and make a huge mess. After talking to the neighbor politely a few times, we just started letting the dogs out to play with them. Collies love “herding” big birds. Suddenly the peacocks weren’t so eager to visit anymore. :lol:
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This is a new generation thing? Dang, what excuse did the clueless old neighbors have that I was dealing with 25 years ago?
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I always laugh when people act as if idiot neighbors come only from the city.
When we adopted our first two miniature horses, we lived in a very urban neighborhood in Portland, OR. (Mt. Tabor, for those familiar with the city). We regularly walked our horses to the summit of Mt. Tabor Park, through the streets, and in neighborhood parades.
With one exception, we never got any complaints. Carpools and joggers regularly passed our alley gate specifically to see them. One group of people stopping by our back gate called to me, saying that our horses were an asset to the neighborhood. Nobody ever said that about my husband and me! The only complaint was a man who was sure we would leave manure in the park for children to step in, despite the numerous grocery bags in our pockets for that purpose. When I offered him composted manure for his roses, he shut up.
We didn’t discover how nasty and idiotic neighbors could be until we moved to the country (becoming citiots ourselves). We found that a few longtime residents were determined to “upgrade” the community and stop what they saw to be irritants — cackling chickens, crowing roosters, and barking dogs. One neighbor even complained to animal control about howling coyotes and wanted them to “do something about it.”
I apologize for going off on a tangent, but while citiots certainly exist, so do countridiots.
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I can’t think of a true country person who would expect AC to do something about coyotes… Just because they lived there first means naught, I suspect city :lol:
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But, why did the chicken cross the road? Was the grass greener?
I will definitely use ‘citiots’ and some form of ‘chicken-gitmo’ in the future. Sounds like the neighbor was just too chicken to ask you to keep the chicken home. My neighbors’ parakeets escaped one day. I should have taken pictures of them climbing my trees to catch them. The hawk really wanted to help.
I do go along with curtailing barking dogs. Never-ending barking is annoying. When it goes on all night, it’s even worse.
This neighbor has lived out here all of her life, but that alone does not guarantee mental health. My point is that there are wackos in both city and country.
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