Won’t you be my neighbor?
There has been quite a bit of activity on the street in the last couple of weeks.
Across the bend in our street lived a woman (we assume she was single), who had a son and daughter that visited in the summer. Shortly after moving in, Bella, our German shepherd, ran out the front door and charged the son, who was on a skateboard in the middle of the road. Bella didn’t attack the boy, but she barked and scared him, and despite our apologies, the mother never spoke to us again.
A month or two back the woman disappeared for a while, and her lawn died. She suddenly returned, along with the gardener, but about the time her grass started to come back we noticed her furniture in the back of a truck. Without posting a “for sale” sign, another family moved in. We haven’t met them yet, but they seem to have made a few improvements to the property already.
Meanwhile, just two houses north, we noticed our neighbors loading up a moving van last week. Today we noticed that all the windows were covered with cardboard. Can’t tell yet if the house was turned over to the bank.
And finally, as of today the realtor sign next door (to the east) has been removed, as has the realtor’s lock box. Maybe the bank finally accepted an offer?
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You and Kim are pretty nosy neighbors.
You say tomato, I say tomato.
If it’s nosy to take interest in the physical and fiscal health of our immediate community, I’m okay with that label. I’ve certainly been called worse.
I’ll take that a step farther; Fresno could benefit from a bit more nosiness, in the sense of knowing what’s going on around our homes. On our street, a vacant property is a security risk, and it’s yet another blow to our (negative) equity.
Haha, I was just being facetious. My mom is the same way with the house behind ours that seems to change hands too frequently and looks worse with each new owner (or occupant).