BILL'S: Inconsiderate Neighbors, WIHAT # 2

To continue my "What I Hate About Texoma" listing, I can start in my own yard. For more than three years now, I have been trying to sell our house, and my inlaws have been trying to sell theirs. My wife and I had to give up, and our house is now being foreclosed on. We have moved in with the inlaws and have doubled our efforts to try to sell this one house. But again, it has proven to be impossible. I blame our neighbors for this. In the past two showings of our house, the first group pulled into the driveway, looked around and pulled back out. The second stopped in the middle of the street next to our neighbors and then drove off without even giving the house a chance.

The reason why? Well, see for yourself. These are actual photos of our neighbors. We have been in conflict with them for the past three years, trying to get them to help us sell our house, but they keep getting worse and worse. And note that all these houses that surround us are occupied by people who are related to one another.



Above is a view from our front yard. Two homes are in the picture. The one on the right side of the picture was placed since our house was placed on the market. They purposely placed it almost on top of the property line, as close to the house as possible. In the bottom right corner you can see the beginning of a dirt pile which was placed here so their septic spray would not come onto our land. This is no joke. They have septic sprinklers just outside their back door. You can see the trash piles in front of the home fully in the picture. The mobile home parked in front of the house is also occupied, but none of the authorities can ever catch anyone at home.



Above is house number three on the lot. Complete with torn tarps over the door, and all windows blocked out. Yes, the lawnmower is right were it broke down two years ago.



Two cargo containers with a wooden fence keeping the trash in. Both trucks in the picture are broken down. The trailer on the right side of the picture is full of trash and has been sitting next to the road for months now.



The story goes, this family owned a "head shop" in Gainesville, which burned down. They needed a place to store the stuff out of the store, so they placed these two storage containers to hold all the stuff they saved from the store. That was three years ago. It happened shortly after the owner of the land's house burned down, on this same plot of land. Here you can see the trash piled between the storage units. The storage units are usually left open. Instead of placing these units behind the house to make it appear more attractive, they placed them at the front of the house. This picture is taken from the road. Again, another broken down truck. Another illegal camper being used as a residence. We have already chased off one camperuse authorities found the old lady home when they came by. These campers are not hooked to the septic system (which could not support them anyway) and have hoses for fresh water hookups.



Closeup shot of the front lawn as seen from the street. This is where today's group who was going to come look at the house changed their mind.



Back yard is barely fenced in, but just like the front.



On the other side is a deserted camper, a deserted truck trailer, and a homemade shanty that houses a well. This family didn't want to pay for water from the city water lines. Trash still litters the lawn.



Another storage unit and piles of trash litter the front lawn on the other side of us.



The story behind this wonderful Evergreen storage unit was the father of this wonderful family died in this house. They needed someplace to "temporarily" store his stuff. So, they got this unit for a "short time." The mother moved out of the house and let one of her sons and his girlfriend move in. The mother is the one who was discovered illegally living in the camper and was forced to move. But the container and all the husband's stuff is still here. The storage unit's "short time" has now passed the year and a half mark, quickly coming up on two years.



The trash just doesn't stop in the yard. Across the street, the gutter is lined with trash from their houses. Plastic containers which blew from their yards in the recent storms. Empty liquor bottles and empty liquor cases. This is the same family we have sat out and watched as they passed joints from one to another in their front yard. Wonderful. And they wonder why we cannot sell.

Like I said, our house has gone under foreclosure, and the inlaws house has dropped in price over $25,000, it is the cheapest in the entire area, and still no lookers. All because of the neighbors. We have even found out that there is a local real estate agent who will not bring anyone out to our house because our neighbors are her cousins and she knows how trashy they are.

And you wonder why we hate the area. Well, here is reason number two. This area is the pit of hell and it has taken destroying our lives to try to start climbing out of this level of hell. And still has not let go of it's hold.