Do You Have a Rotten Neighbor? Go to RottenNeighbor.com!
January 22, 2008 – 11:53 amPosted Under: society
It’s funny, I wish I had seen this site years ago. I used to live in a beautiful complex (Alta Crest now Lennox at Patterson Place) in Durham, North Carolina and when I moved into my studio apartment I thought it was perfect, right next to the tennis court. But then quickly discovered that we had a little blonde neighbor, who would enjoy walking her dog not so far out of her front door. Enter summer, and sun and heat and you could imagine the smell. Opening up your windows wasn’t always an option. I am sort of dealing with the same thing with a neighbor now who finds it necessary to put her cat litter in a bag outside of her front door (directly across from my door). I’m not sure I understand why people think it’s okay to get the smell OUT of their house and that OUTSIDE of the door is the perfect place. If you are attracted to a complex or place because it’s beautiful or grassy, keep it that way by not letting your doggies pee all over the grass. I never understood that-ever!
I wish I could have sent a Poop Greeting card.
Brant Walker and his girlfriend Kendra Kadas moved into their San Diego apartment this summer only to discover a daily assault on the senses. “You come home from work, start walking up the stairs, you smell it a little bit, and it just starts stinking,” Brant remembers.
Day after day, Brant and Kendra’s neighbors were cooking. The smell, they say, was unbearable. “The smell’s just right in our apartment and it makes it hard to want to cook or eat your own food with this smell in the air,” Kendra says.
Rather than talk to his neighbors about the odor, Brant smelled an opportunity. He launched a Web site - rottenneighbor.com - and posted his grievance to the world.
“Anyone has the right to know what their neighbors are like before they move in so they don’t regret it the very next day,” Brant argues.
Brant opened the site for anyone to post about anyone and right away hit a nerve. Each day, the site gets thousands of postings about neighbor horror stories.
Neighbors being tattled on generally aren’t identified by name but their home, right down to the street address, is. Experts say the site can seriously impact a home’s worth.
Bookmark Me:
2 Responses to “Do You Have a Rotten Neighbor? Go to RottenNeighbor.com!”
My neighbor of over 25 years, watch me constantly. I have never spoke a work to these people. Only because I was warned by a family member , they were goofy,stay away. Its so frustrating to go outside and mow and do yard work they are in the window watching.
These people are imbred and crazy, the whole family. I wouldn’t get involved for the reason also, the son in law. He shot at a guy in the Mercersburg , Pa area several yrs ago.
I could go on and on, but I fear them.
This country is really bredding alot of undesirable characters.
By deb carr on Jan 22, 2008
Is there a web site I can go to to find out if someone who is going to become a possible neighbor of mine to see if they were bad neighbors or rotten neighbors at previous places they use to live?
By Peter Wood on Jan 22, 2008