two cents ΒΆΒΆ Wrote:
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> Face it, nowhere is completely safe..
> When a house sales you just hope and pray that
> whatever moves in... isn't a problem.
No truer words have ever been spoken.I thought I was going to be relatively immune when I bought my last house in '95 because I was in the real estate business and could find out "insider info", but that still wasn't good enough. I researched the current neighbors and history of every single neighborhood I liked, and even though I was only 30, I chose an area consisting of mostly retired and over 50 professional people. I scouted it out day and night and never saw the first kid or evidence of any. Even though it was an older less "trendy" area, I liked it because it was clean and well maintained and I had HOPED wouldn't be attractive to the childed.
I moved in and I swear it didn't seem like the ink had time to dry on the sales contract before the widow next door died suddenly and UP went the for sale sign. IN moved a "Brady Bunch' family with 6 kids total, best I could tell, and maw maw in tow. These were 4 bedroom 2 bath houses, go figure. Basketball net in the front yard, skateboard ramp on the sidewalk, and a CHEAP BLUE UGLY above ground pool in the back, and 5 yap dogs. They turned the foyer/dining/living room area into 3 bedrooms which were divided by 1960's "hippy beads", and I know this because they kept the drapes drawn 24/7 across the front. T A C K Y
You are correct 2 cents, no where is completely safe, unless you do like I have and have forgone ALL city conveniences and bought a house on a secluded mountain side. After putting up with the "Brady Bunch" for 7 years, it was either that, or slit my wrists. I felt as if I had been released from prison when I was finally able to move.