has anyone ever had a neighbor that they just couldn’t read? we’re dealing with one right now. i don’t know what her deal is, and whatever it is i don’t think i  like it too much. we’ve been trying to get approval to fence our backyard in. we’re in a townhouse and most of the neighborhood has a fence in their backyard. our house and one other house seem to be the only on the block that doesn’t have a fence, and we are lucky enough that my brother-in-law has set us up with someone to help us out. i thought it was kind of funny for the previous owners to be here as long as they were without having a patio or fence put in. now i think i know why! getting neighbor signatures have been a real PAIN. HOA’s are a pain. two of our neighbors haven’t been a problem, but our other neighbor, who also is on the HOA board has been a little more difficult. it took us nearly five tries to get in touch with her we finally left the letter on her door with our plans and asked if she would kindly return it at her earliest convenience. a few days went by and nothing. my husband finally went back on sunday to see if he could get her signature again. when she came to the door she didn’t even open the door and just shouted “yeah?!” through the window at my husband! then she said she’d get it to us later!! (because nearly 5 days wasn’t enough time to just sign your name saying that you acknowledge we told you of our plans?!) and when she finally returned the letter she was rude about it and boldy circled that the signature wasn’t an approval nor disapproval. well, duh, we knew that. the letter serves as a notice we told her of our plans!! what was the point of pointing out that it wasn’t approval?! and either way, why would she care when the entire neighborhood has fences, which don’t even all match! we even specifically said, we would match her and our other neighbor! (and if you really want to be difficult can i just point out who’s car was sitting on the curb with tags that expired in OCTOBER for over six months! it certainly wasn’t OUR car!)

she’s never been courteous to us, and the past couple days has really rubbed us wrong. my sister asked if we ever did anything to her, and i can’t possibly imagine how we could’ve insulted her that bad when we’ve never even spoken to her! when i’ve tried to say hello to her when i’m out front she glares at me and walks right back inside. and when my husband was grilling out on the deck one night he said hello to her and she ignored him and walked away again as well!!! maybe she just thinks we’re too young to be living next to her? i don’t know. we are the only family on the block it seems that is under the age of 30! but we worked really hard to get this house completely on our own, without the help of either of our parents!  or maybe she is offended by our interracial marriage. who knows what this womans deal is…