He Tolerated His Neighbor’s Unpermitted ADU Rentals for Months—Until Their Tenants Started Blasting Bass at 2 AM
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Imagine living near a neighbor who keeps converting sheds and carports to illegal rental units on their property. It starts with one rental and keeps growing.
Would this bother you, or would you mind your own business?
In this story, one homeowner was a little annoyed with the situation but mainly didn’t care. However, when they started blasting music, he decided he cared. He actually cared quite a bit.
Keep reading for all the details.
I finally called code.
So I’ve had a couple of bad neighbors through the years and I finally got through to the police dept to do something about. Mainly for the people that were having parties after midnight on a Wednesday.
My other neighbors are a different story.
I live on an island and most places have caught up with the times and building codes. Most houses are elevated for flood waters and have to have metal roofs.
But, there are a few instances in some of the neighborhoods that people are refusing to get with the times.
Here’s some more context about where the neighbors live.
For example my neighbors across the street from me live in a single wide trailer.
While there’s nothing wrong with that, there is a problem with what they’re doing with their property.
There was block shed at the back of their property that housed their washer/dryer, lawn equipment, etc. about a year ago they built an addition to it and moved one of their friends in.
Not really an issue at the time. People fall on hard times every now and then, and sometimes need help.
The number of people living there keeps growing.
The next thing they did was enclose the car port and moved another person in there.
Again it’s not bothering anyone so why should I care. Probably another person falling on hard times that needs some help.
The final straw was they built a shed to house their washer/dryer, lawn equipment, and tools, or so I thought.
I got home from work on Friday and all their stuff was scattered across the yard and they were moving another person in to live in the shed.
OP finally had enough.
Now one would think that if you have a bunch of illegal rentals and illegal dwellings on your property you would want to be as inconspicuous as possible.
Well, one would think wrong for these people.
The whole weekend they were out blaring music and yelling all day and night. Even when I woke up for work this morning at 330, they were still playing music.
I’ve had a bunch of friends tell me that I should mind my own business when it comes to stuff, but when they make it my business something needs to be done about it, right? So we’ll see what code does, it may get worse before it gets better. Rant done.
It really can be hard to mind your own business when it starts becoming your business.
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Let’s see how Reddit responded.
This person knows how important it is to have good neighbors.
Another person says to ignore the friends.
This person would’ve done the same thing.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a homeowner who doesn’t care whether or not their neighbors hate their yard flamingos, because they aren’t subject to the HOA.
Let’s hope they don’t need to use the heat.
Hopefully, the neighbors don’t find out who reported them, but I do think it’s good that OP reported them. While the noise is certainly an issue, who knows what the living conditions are like in those illegal rental units. It may not be safe.
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