I need advice, too (another crazy neighbor post) --sorry so long!

[HobokenChickenEmergency]

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...And now I have Honky Tonk Bedonka Donk stuck in my head. Thanks!

I called everybody but the mayor today. Everyone was nice, and concerned that I was getting a bad impression of our fair city (I played up the fact that I'm a transplant).

The Assessor's office gave me the landlord's number just like that--no waiting or callbacks or anything. I love it! Anyway, they said I should distribute it to the other neighbors that are being annoyed (insert evil laugh *mwahaha*), so Shirley and I aren't the only ones calling.

Shirley...is a tough nut to crack. I went over to talk to her today, and she seems to think that MY kids are also out making noise at night. I explained to her that my step-kids live with their grandma, and my kids are 7,6 and 3 and have bedtimes. My 14 year old lives with my parents in WI during the school year, because he goes to private school. He doesn't hang out with the Clampetts when he IS down here, and regardless, he also has a curfew of 9 pm (Rather, at 9 he has to be inside the house. At 8 he has to be on our property and quiet!).

It's like she's fed up with all kids everywhere, because of these nitwits.

Anyway, back to my story: I called the police department, and got to talk to a Sgt. about the police being called. He was great, too, but he couldn't make any promises about 3rd shift calls.

So we'll see. I'm practically salivating at the thought of calling the landlord, but so far all is quiet.

This morning, I awoke to the sound of the guy across the street telling one of the Clampett kids that they're not allowed in his yard anymore, because they're too loud. He's a big, stern-looking guy, so they might listen. I know I'm not the only one fed up here.

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

When they are out in the street or even in their yard being loud at all hours of the night, call the cops. You can even do this anonymously. If you have to call them every night, eventually they will get tired of being called and do something about it.

As for the other stuff, you would probably be best to cut them off completely. We have some bad neighbors behind us whose daughter used to love coming over to play with my daughter. Of course, now they think I am hateful because I finally asked the girl not to come back -- ever! It was a similar story to your neighbor's kids always being there, inviting themselves, ringing the doorbell constantly asking for stuff, etc. I finally had enough and told my daughter I didn't care. Now the neighbors give me dirty looks all the time, but I don't have their daughter over here 24/7 breaking things, "borrowing" things without asking, and driving me crazy in every way possible. Sometimes you just have to be firm and say "No!"

 

[country lady]

Girl, I'm sure all of us feel your pain. There appears to be no solution, short of moving. Is that an option for your sanity?

Do you remember the movie, "Christmas Story" and the family who lived next door to them with their "herd" of dogs, which ran through the house and ate the turkey? These people sound like them, only the "herd" is their kids. Some people fit the Darwin theory, sorry to say. I disagree that poverty is always the blame. That excuses bad behavior and is getting old.

 

[Dustin Biery]

I agree poverty isn't to blame. I grew up very, very poor. I was ever caught acting like that, I would have been punished severly! My parents did not put up with us, or any other children at our house, acting that way. This is just an obvious case of poor parenting, and in this situation, these kids will probably be much like their parents.

 

[DuckLady]

I may have missed it, but

Document
Document
Document

Take pics, write reports in a notebook. Write when you called the cops, when you talked to the kids, when you talked to the parents, when they were up past curfew, when they barged into your house, when you talked to the city (and who you talked to) and what they said.

You need to slam the door in their face, literally and figuratively. Have no contact or you will set yourself up to have allowed all this to happen and it was OK with you.

Good luck and may I say you write wonderfully. I was spellbound.

 

[HobokenChickenEmergency]

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Thank you so much!

I DO have a "Clampett diary". I have no social life, so....I can afford to spend my time documenting. It's even more colorful than my original post!

 

[tobyshuman]

And I thought I had bad neighbors--you take the award for that one.
for you

 

[hearthnsoul]

I would harrass the landlord. If they choose to have tenants like this I would start having the neighbors send him certified return receipt complaints, and then take a civil suit out on him which you can then show all the mailings to the court with. To be honest it probably wouldn't go that far,..he would most likely start eviction proceedings.
As for the kids,..it's terrible. They only know what they have been taught, and I have been in your shoes with my own children when they have brought home these children who made my heart break, then annoyed me to no ends,..then in the end I found out how I spent all this time sheltering my child only to have this bad behavior rubbing off on them.
Your kids, their kids,..I would nip it,...carefully, because as they still live there, you don't want your children to become targets.
I am sorry your dealing with such a nightmare.

 

[rancher hicks]

Good garden o' peas. You are "enablers" that what you are. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Harsh I know. The Clampetts will never learn with neighbors like you.
I will never forget the kindest thing a neighbor friend said to me. "It's one thing to be poor, it's another to be dirty." I was a clampett.
If you really are christians and love the Clampetts than speak up!
Teach them "the how to's. How to be clean, How to budget, How to make the right choices", How to help themselves".
Your christians you should be witnessing to the clampetts so they can become christians. Thank God for the person who witnessed to me. It changed me from a Clampett to a, whatever the opposite is.
For those who don't agree please don't bother me. A closed mind can be a good thing, it keeps the garbage out.
Leroy used to say "tell it like it A S is"!

 

[hearthnsoul]

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I just spurted iced to out my nose,.. thank you!