Fingers and toes crossed for you!
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Sigh. Fall is coming, and Iām not looking forward to playing leaf ping pong 
with my neighborsā landscapers. 
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Do normal people like gray everything? I wonāt be your new neighbor as I like white.
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I love gray in a house. But I concede I am not normal. I am not a nosy neighbor, however. Just follow the laws and codes, and Iām good.
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lol. But paint is cheap. HD has amazing Behr product that could easily cover gray in one coat. 
We got rid of the funeral home color scheme in our MB the previous owner seemed to enjoy - easily!
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WOuldnāt it be funny if she and my neighbor from hell (who also just put her house up for sale) where just buying each otherās homes? If so, Iām so very sorry. For the both of us.
Yeah, but a lot of people put on those awful gray tone wood floors when they painted everything gray about 10 years ago.
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So this is in 1 of the photos in the listing. Itās sort of a combo between Haunted Mansion and Beetlejuice.
thereās also a photo of the large pantry, but the pantry is filled with all of these labelled baskets and most of the are empty. Huh.
Check out the kickinā primary bedroom furniture. Every room in the listing photos seems to have a family picture. Why do people do this? Put your personal photos away when you put your house up for sale!
And then thereās this weird set up with the string lights that Nosy Neighbor has hanging down. Likeā¦theyāre so low that you hit your head on them.
Hereās some of the plastic plantsā¦
This is the fountain that Nosy Neighbor said was ācompetingā with our fountain. I didnāt know that type of competition was possible.
These are plastic plants, too. Itās super weird. I can understand having fake plants inside your house but outside?
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Maybe your neighbor is like me and canāt grow any plants so has plastic ones? Even I could keep a plastic plant āgrowingā.
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The fountain looks like a human bladder leaking urine 
. The grey striped flooring is horrible IMO.
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That looks like a typical AZ staged property. Not my taste at all, but I donāt find anything objectionable about the listing; itās clearly staged. The house is open, and the walls are neutral. No buyer will be put off by easily-removable pictures, patio lights, plastic plants, furnishings, etc. If itās a two-story/pool in the greater Phoenix/Scottsdale area with no serious inspection issues, Iām guessing itās listed close to $1M even if it was built in the ā90s.
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Two weeks in and everyone in our new neighborhood has been so friendly until yesterday. A guy who lives 8 houses down the street stopped by because he wanted to introduce us to some landscapers who were working in another neighborās yard. āMaybe they can get rid of that dead shrub on the side of your house.ā We were hoping to revive that partially dead shrub and it isnāt visible from the street, so Iām wondering how he even saw it.
It makes me kind of sad because I had met this guyās wife at a luncheon last week and really liked her. It also makes me realize how small things can make some people miserable.
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Iāve learned that I just have to laugh at that kind of remark! Good grief.
I know I mentioned that I use QuickBooks Pro Desktop for our neighborhood road association since I already own it for our business. Iāve decided Iām going to transition to free software because it will make no sense for the association to pay $500 or whatever each year for QuickBooks Pro Online after Iām finished. We have only 13 houses and very few expenses. Iām sure some neighbors will ream me out for this action. Why, donāt ask me, they just seem to like confrontation.
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My neighbor smokes a pack a day, on his back patio, smoke drifts into my back porch with the prevailing breeze (constant around here). Can never enjoy my lovely backyard. I believe in his right to use of his property how he wants, so I will never, ever say anything. We are probably moving, even though we love our street and our house is paid off. 
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We just had a new one. We live on a main road. Itās 2 lanes, 25 mph (average speed closer to 35) with bike lanes, wide 10ā sidewalks and on-street parking. It gets roughly 7000 vehicles/day. The house across the street and down one is either a rental, or the adult kid of an owner a few doors down. He owns 3 homes in a row. The house next door, that Iāve spoken of before in this thread, is now an Airbnb. We love this situation. The owner lives about 500 miles away, but has people to manage it for them.
H comes home from the gym and notices the side door to the basement of the Airbnb is standing wide open. He goes over to investigate and finds the maintenance person. Introduces himselfā¦ everything is wonderfulā¦
While chatting they notice across the street there are two kids, roughly 3 & 7, playing with a ball. Ball goes out into the street. 3 year old runs after it. Cars slamming on brakes. Again, this is a busy road and with the parked cars, you just canāt seeā¦ H looks and sees no adult around. He puts on his former PE teacher hat and goes over asking if their mom is home. āYes, but sheās laying down and doesnāt want to be bothered.ā He asks if they can get her. They open the door and try to get him to come inside - he declines - and says the whole place reeks of weed. Soon, mom comes to the door. H mentions that the kids just almost got hit by a car. She yells at the kids to come inside and slams the door. Niceā¦
They are VERY VERY lucky they did not get killed.
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Actually I know several people who have fake plants outside so I donāt find it that weird. It can be lack of sun, lack of time, heat etc. Or like my friend she gave up because there was lack of drainage in the built in flower boxes and she finally gave up so now itās real plants/fake mix but not for lack of trying.
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Something similar happened to my daughter recently on her street. A kid was running out to an ice cream truck and my daughter nearly hit him. She watched what house he went to and she rang the doorbell. A 12 yr. old brother was in charge and he didnāt seem too concerned.
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OK, I have fake flowers and plants on my front porch - to be fair, they are very highly rated on Amazon and tasteful (I think, lol).
My landscaping is very sparse by choice, so I figured I can have some potted fake flowers on my porch for some color. Plus I can re-use them.
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My silk hanging plants must be pretty good ā they frustrate the heck out of the hummingbirds. 
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