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My neighbors are selling their house

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Whoozyerdaddy said:
Pfft.. You must live in the same alternate parallel universe as his time travelling neighbor. The real question is: Why doesn't your neighbor travel back to yesterday afternoon and clean up his yard before their other selves come back to a mess?

It's simple Bill & Ted time travelling logic. If they could figure it out... sheesh...
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Well of course if you use Bill & Ted logic, but Doctor Emmit Brown would disagree. Cleaning up those leaves in the past could have devastating effects on the space-time continuum, effectively creating alternate 2010. Do you really want Snookie to be president?! Great Scott!
 
DrPizza said:
If they get the inflated price they are asking, then it's useless to you unless you're also planning on selling your home. If you plan on staying in your home, the reality is that the city/town/village may realize, "hey, it's time to reassess the home values & make more money in taxes."
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I don't plan on selling, but who knows given the state of the economy.
 
mmntech said:
Well of course if you use Bill & Ted logic, but Doctor Emmit Brown would disagree. Cleaning up those leaves in the past could have devastating effects on the space-time continuum, effectively creating alternate 2010. Do you really want Snookie to be president?! Great Scott!
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I dunno... could she do any worse that what we have now?
 
lxskllr said:
I think so too. It'll be a cold day in hell when I rake leaves. If they weren't supposed to be on the ground, god wouldn't have made them drop from the trees :^D
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+1 and if you wait long enough they will all blow away or get covered in snow, problem solved.
 
lxskllr said:
I think so too. It'll be a cold day in hell when I rake leaves. If they weren't supposed to be on the ground, god wouldn't have made them drop from the trees :^D
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I attempted to apply that logic with my dad many times in my youth.

he never saw things from my point of view.
 
PhineasJWhoopee said:
They go on vacation before their open house today and arrive back late last night. The yard's a mess with leaves everywhere.

Ugh.

Wouldn't common sense suggest that you get back a day earlier and pick up the leaves?

None of my business, but if they get the inflated price they are asking it may help my home value.
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Common sense in a buyer would easily recognize it is Autumn and it is expected that leaves would be all over the place. Its more important to a buyer to look for other things other then falling leaves unless the gutters are overflowing with them.

But, if you as a buyer would hold the seller in negative because of falling leaves in the middle of Autumn then maybe you are not their buyer.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
Wait, your big problem with them is they didn't come back early from vacation to rake up leaves?
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I don't think he has a problem with it, it was just simply an observation, much like any other post here in ATOT. He just thought it may been in their best interest to clean up the house before it is shown. Is it post worthy? Nah, not really....but not many posts are.
 
PhineasJWhoopee said:
My neighbors are selling their house

They go on vacation before their open house today and arrive back late last night. The yard's a mess with leaves everywhere.

Ugh.

Wouldn't common sense suggest that you get back a day earlier and pick up the leaves?

None of my business, but if they get the inflated price they are asking it may help my home value.
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With an asshole for a neighbor like you I'd move too.
 
DaTT said:
I don't think he has a problem with it, it was just simply an observation, much like any other post here in ATOT. He just thought it may been in their best interest to clean up the house before it is shown. Is it post worthy? Nah, not really....but not many posts are.
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Based on this:

Ugh.

Wouldn't common sense suggest...
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he seems to have a problem with it. Seems like they figured they would be gone due to the open house, so they might as well have it coincide with a vacation. Its fall, unless they're gonna be out there everyday raking up leaves, its gonna have leaves on it. Also, "last night" was a Friday, it seems like they did come back early from their vacation.

He even mentions house value, :sneaky: :awe:
 
lxskllr said:
I think so too. It'll be a cold day in hell when I rake leaves. If they weren't supposed to be on the ground, god wouldn't have made them drop from the trees :^D
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But then how do you get leaf piles which are so much fun to dive into?!
 
DaTT said:
I don't think he has a problem with it, it was just simply an observation, much like any other post here in ATOT. He just thought it may been in their best interest to clean up the house before it is shown. Is it post worthy? Nah, not really....but not many posts are.
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Bingo. Just an observation and a heads up if you are trying to sell your house.

If you want to get top dollar, at least make an effort to make the place look presentable.
 
lxskllr said:
I think so too. It'll be a cold day in hell when I rake leaves. If they weren't supposed to be on the ground, god wouldn't have made them drop from the trees :^D
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I have leaf nazis in my neighborhood. Seriously, this one guy has a riding mower with a leaf vac on the back and he races through his yard on a daily basis to clean them all up. It is pretty comical to watch.

For my part, I have 3 ginormous pin oaks in my front yard and I rake that mess up every week. It is bad, but nothing compared to the mess that the massive weeping willow in the back creates. I don't rake that up.
 
At my previous house I was down wind of multiple massive trees. My kind neighbors just let them blow into my yard. I raked leaves all winter long.

At my new house, I tag team them with my other neighbor.
 
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PhineasJWhoopee said:
At my previous house I was down wind of multiple massive trees. My kind neighbors just let them blow into my yard. I raked leaves all winter long.

At my new house, I tag team with my other neighbor.
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I try to let a good wind blow a bunch of mine into the neighbor's yard as well. The neighbor is a douche and doesn't take care of his yard anyway, so he won't mind. :awe:
 
BarkingGhostar said:
Common sense in a buyer would easily recognize it is Autumn and it is expected that leaves would be all over the place. Its more important to a buyer to look for other things other then falling leaves unless the gutters are overflowing with them.

But, if you as a buyer would hold the seller in negative because of falling leaves in the middle of Autumn then maybe you are not their buyer.
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It's a buyers market and they are trying to get top dollar. Rahter than going on vacation, they should have stayed home and made sure the yard was in impeccable condition, imo.
 
Terzo said:
But then how do you get leaf piles which are so much fun to dive into?!
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I guess I kind of lied. I have raked piles a couple times so me and my daughter could jump in them, but when we were finished, I just re-scattered the leaves :^D

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I have a yard full of very big trees, and I'll be damned if I can see where the leaves have killed the grass. It would be awesome if they did. Mowing lawn is one of my worst chores in life.
 
PhineasJWhoopee said:
The problem is if you don't pick them up they kill the lawn and you get a big mess.
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Not really. I never rake mine. I chop them up mowing, or just leave them on the ground when the season is late and the grass no longer needs to be mowed. My lawn always looks fine when the snow melts.
 
PhineasJWhoopee said:
The problem is if you don't pick them up they kill the lawn and you get a big mess.
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You're beginning to sound a bit anal retentive about picking up leaves. If it's fall & the leaves are falling from the trees, it doesn't even look natural to have a perfectly manicured lawn devoid of leaves. And personally, I think that anyone who would consciously believe that leaves on the ground makes a house worth less (by more than the $20 it would take to have a kid rake them) is retarded.

I mean, when I looked at the house that I now live in, it had snowed the night before. The sidewalk hadn't been touched - no one had walked on it, no one had shoveled it. I didn't think to myself. "omg, it snowed and there's snow still on the sidewalk. I like this house less now because of that." That line of thought is patently absurd. Of course, maybe it's just that I'm more of a rational thinker that things like that don't effect me at all.
 
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