When our next door associate moved in last year, I was worried that we’d all be in for more conflict.
The associate who lived there before him was a menace to our community.
He had numerous sizable pets that bit multiple children on the block, but whenever the police arrived the pets would be hidden or taken to a different location. But that’s not even the worst part. At a single point he erected a watchtower in his yard after being served a grass overgrowth notice from the homeowner’s association. He did most of it overnight & the cops were called the next day. The last I saw of that lunatic was him getting dragged across his front grass by the police. The tower was dismantled & eventually the home was put up for sale, but the owner thankfully never returned. To our luck, the new associate is a kind & congenial man. Instead of defying the community & the HOA, our new associate has followed all of the rules & delights us with his homemade honey. At first the HOA wasn’t sure whether or not to allow our new associate to have his honey bee hives in his backyard, but being his nextdoor neighbor, I advocated on his behalf. I told the HOA that I would take responsibility for the bees if they ever got out of his yard & made hives in other sites. Now I have a beekeeping associate who also rescues bee hives from other neighbors’ yards. Best of all, his honey is now for sale on his website.