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LIMOMx2
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How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
We know his lawnmower broke a few months ago so we let him have ours. We don't use it anymore.
Well he was doing great but now it is ridiculous!!! It looks sooo disgusting!!!!!
DH wants to say something but I don't know if he should. The guy is very nice but I just don't think he can take care of the house. He is younger then us so age is not a problem.
Everyone keeps their property soo nice except them
What can we do?
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Posted 6/20/07 10:31 AM  |
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
I know we had people like that by our old place - my DH went over and mowed it for them when they weren't home 
After it happening twice - they got the idea and starting doing themselves 
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| Posted 6/20/07 10:36 AM |
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tourist
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
You could ask him if the lawn mower you gave him broke.
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| Posted 6/20/07 10:37 AM |
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danielleandscott
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
Type up a letter anonymously and throw it in their mailbox when they are not home saying to please mow the lawn.
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| Posted 6/20/07 10:39 AM |
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LIMOMx2
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
ooohhh good ideas everyone
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| Posted 6/20/07 10:41 AM |
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PotofLuck06
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
You can call the town and make a complaint about the property.
A neighbor of ours did that to us and we got our act together - but we also had just moved in and we didn't know what the rules were for leaf/branch pick up by the town.
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| Posted 6/20/07 10:41 AM |
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TheLorax
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
Posted by PotofLuck06
You can call the town and make a complaint about the property.
A neighbor of ours did that to us and we got our act together - but we also had just moved in and we didn't know what the rules were for leaf/branch pick up by the town.
The guy across the street told us "You better start taking care of your lawn, or you could lose your sod".
This is our first year in the house, so we didn't own a lawnmower (this was back in May - so it wasn't THAT bad at all). We have teeny tiny cars, and were having problems borrowing a car to get one (we couldn't fit one in either of our cars). I felt SOOO bad, but now we have our act together and our house is presentable again 
I wasn't insulted cause it was bugging us too! I would be embarrased having the most unkept yard in a neighborhood
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| Posted 6/20/07 10:49 AM |
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skew
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
cut out ads of landscapers from the pennysaver as well copies of ads in the yellow book and place them in his mailbox.
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| Posted 6/20/07 10:54 AM |
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BlueDiamonds
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
Posted by tourist
You could ask him if the lawn mower you gave him broke.
ITA, next time you see him ask him how the lawn mower is working.
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| Posted 6/20/07 12:24 PM |
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shiv
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
my mom was a single mom with 5 kids- our gutters were a disaster. a neighbor came by and offered to clean them out- but at least she had an excuse why she hadn't done it.
sounds like you neighbor might be just lazy- i would go over and ask him if the lawnmower is working ok.
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| Posted 6/20/07 1:42 PM |
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Nicole728
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
there were a few houses like that in our community...a few people complained to the homeowners assoc...and they just wrote a general letter to the whole community to keep their property maintained
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| Posted 6/20/07 2:47 PM |
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MST9106
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
I would ask him if he needed help in mowing the lawn...not sarcastically of course...
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| Posted 6/20/07 2:55 PM |
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SweetCin
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Re: How can I tell my neighbor to mow his lawn?
Posted by danielleandscott
Type up a letter anonymously and throw it in their mailbox when they are not home saying to please mow the lawn.
Funny you should say this b/c it happened our our block....someone dropped an anonymous note to a neighbor about their hideous lawn & that person took it upon themselves to send a letter to all the neighbors on the block saying she doesn't have money for a gardener & she's been sick & can't mow the lawn. Well some neighbors took offense & cops were called & he told her she had no right to send the letter to all the neighbors; but he also said it was her perogative not to cut her lawn.
If I were you I'd just ask if they still had the lawnmower you gave them...
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| Posted 6/20/07 4:03 PM |
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