- May 13, 2009
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I'm pretty sure I'm moving just need some advice on if I'm overreacting. Neighborhood seems to be going to downhill. Well I've give a couple examples. One time my wife went to a garage sale down the street and left the garage open. A guy stopped in the middle of the street and had his car backed up in the neighbors driveway. He walked over to our house and was looking around when my wife noticed him and started running towards our place and he ran off. I figured that could happen anywhere so I blew it off. About a couple months ago another situation occured when I was walking at around 9pm. I noticed a guy walking really fast, about light jogging pace, and he seemed to be in a rush to get somewhere. He flew by me and jumped in a car that was driving up waiting for him. It was weird that he flew past me and got into a car on the next street that was waiting for him. I didn't feel right about it so I called the police and let them know. And finally today I get a call from my wife saying a strange guy has been following her around the neighborhood and when she went inside he was ringing the doorbell. She called me crying and I told her to call 911 immediately. The cops got there and they arrested the guy for some warrants be had. They couldn't charge him with anything but when they arrested him he had a condom on him. The guy lives in my neighborhood and the cops believe he was trying to pick up my wife. I ran this by a co worker and he said that this kind of stuff happens everywhere. I also get cars driving by at midnight with the radio thumping.
So what do you guys think? Time to go? Not really worried about the financial aspect of the situation. I'll lose money selling now but the new house I buy I should be getting a good deal on it since all home prices are down.
Update:
We sold the house and have moved into the new place. The new house was more than we would of liked to have spent but it's worth it. It has an acre of land and all my neighbors are friendly older people (50+) which makes for a quiet neighborhood.
It was a huge pain in the butt to make it all happen. First we painted the old home, rebuilt the front porch, touched up some things on the interior, etc.. before we put it up for sale. The house sold fairly quickly which put us in a bind to find a new one. It probably took a month to find the right house. Only problem was we were out of time at the former house so we had to live with my brother sleeping on a twin bed for a little while till we could move into our new house. Not to mention we also had to move all our furniture twice since we couldn't move straight into the new home.
It was the right time move. Things were steadily getting worse in that neighborhood. Right before we sold the house there were a couple neighbors that had their trucks stolen. It was almost becoming a regular occurrence to see the police at a house on the street. They were actually in full pursuit of a guy right across the street.
I guess the moral of the story is if you're in a bad situation as I was it's possible to change it. It was a lot of hard work but it's paid off.
So what do you guys think? Time to go? Not really worried about the financial aspect of the situation. I'll lose money selling now but the new house I buy I should be getting a good deal on it since all home prices are down.
Update:
We sold the house and have moved into the new place. The new house was more than we would of liked to have spent but it's worth it. It has an acre of land and all my neighbors are friendly older people (50+) which makes for a quiet neighborhood.
It was a huge pain in the butt to make it all happen. First we painted the old home, rebuilt the front porch, touched up some things on the interior, etc.. before we put it up for sale. The house sold fairly quickly which put us in a bind to find a new one. It probably took a month to find the right house. Only problem was we were out of time at the former house so we had to live with my brother sleeping on a twin bed for a little while till we could move into our new house. Not to mention we also had to move all our furniture twice since we couldn't move straight into the new home.
It was the right time move. Things were steadily getting worse in that neighborhood. Right before we sold the house there were a couple neighbors that had their trucks stolen. It was almost becoming a regular occurrence to see the police at a house on the street. They were actually in full pursuit of a guy right across the street.
I guess the moral of the story is if you're in a bad situation as I was it's possible to change it. It was a lot of hard work but it's paid off.
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