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the honeymoon is over...
i'm wondering if anyone can offer advice in our situation. we purchased our first home last june and are really unhappy here. we really miss our old neighborhood and are dealing with some awful neighbors behind us who came over and yelled at me last week when i asked their daughter to not walk through our yard (her and her friends are perpetually hanging out in and cutting through our yard and leaving their trash behind). my husband tried going over to reason with him, but it's difficult trying to explain to an adult about respecting other people's property. they turned it on us saying that we think we're better than them and why wouldn't we want their daughter on our lawn. i'm really at a loss for an answer to that because we've never been anything but nice to them and i honestly had no idea that was their daughter until the confrontation. i'm sure it will blow over enough, but i definitely don't want to be here long-term or raise our future children here. i feel like we may need to have an excuse lined up if we do decide to list in the next year. would you be suspicious about buying a house from someone who lived there only 2 years?
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Re: the honeymoon is over...
I think you are overthinking. Lots of people have to move for purely practical reasons having nothing to do with the quality of the neighborhood.
That being said, if you don't want the kid trespassing on your lawn, take a few photos of her at it and call the cops. It seems obvious the parents aren't going to listen to reason.
We bought our house from someone who'd been in it less than 3 years. The only reason I cared at all why the seller was leaving was to figure out how much they'd compromise on things (for example, our seller was moving in with someone else, but didn't have to sell immediately -- and therefore wasn't willing to negotiate much on price, post-inspection fixes, etc).
What about building a fence around your property? Nobody could walk through your yard that way. It is expensive, but less expensive than selling your house (and, actually, you'd likely be helping whoever buys your property next).
thanks so much for the advice! i probably am over thinking it, but i'm the type of person that would wonder about something like that. i am hesitant about involving the police because i don't want to aggravate an already hostile situation, and i'm hoping that this altercation will have solved the problem even though it's probably opened a whole other can of worms.
as for the fence, we live on a corner lot with almost .25 acres of mostly front and side yard. our backyard has a privacy fence, but it would be pretty expensive to add a fence around the entire front yard and since no one else has a fence in the front, i feel like it would stand out like a sore thumb. i really appreciate the insight though!