Knock me over with a feather, look who’s promoting the use of a fossil fuel?

My neighbor goes away for awhile, a couple of times every year. She and I are on good terms, and she asked if I could just keep an eye on the house while she's away. Our neighborhood is a "I have a key" kind of neighborhood. If there's a lightning storm that shorts out the power, I can go into her house and make sure everything's working and the AC doesn't need to be reset. When she's gone, I do the weeding for her. Her lawn guy doesn't go into the flower beds, he only mows the lawn. Hubby and I keep her shrubs trimmed and even, I weed, and she usually pays us (we never told her we expected any money but she offers, so we gratefully accept whatever she puts in the envelope). When she gets back she usually does that stuff herself.

So my suggestion isn't merely to inform your neighbor that their weeds are high - it's to offer to clear up the weeds for them. And maybe your neighbor will buy you dinner to thank you for it, or even pay you for your time and service.

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So much better than calling community standards.

I’m one of the few on here that doesn’t subscribe to anonymous reporting.....which is not only encouraged by Community Standards, but also a lot of the old guard here in TV. So my advice is simple. Attempt to reach out to your new neighbors and give them the benefit and courtesy of making them aware of the situation. Start your residency off right and avoid the drama!

For 17 years, the complaints have been ongoing. If the complaint is filed within the neighborhood I am good with it. Truthfully if I am in the wrong because I either interpret or missed a restriction then, it should be brought up. Three of our homes were submitted, all were within compliance.

I have watched some try to be nice to someone in the neighborhood, and let them know that new landscaping needs ARC, and just file after the fact.

Sometimes it goes well, but mostly it doesn’t. We had the nicest widow 4 houses down, who removed all her landscaping because it was too much trouble. Next door neighbors offered to replace and help her maintain, she started calling late at night, sending ugly mail, and basically became a not so nice person to those who were only try to help. When weekly driveway parties, happened we had authorities show up. It wasn’t easy to live there and like us moved. At least if it was anonymous it might have been easier.