I'd like to think that if I ever had a short-term rental, one of the first rules would be: Be considerate of those around you.

Good luck, hope it's over soon. Maybe a springtime issue?

Possibly late fall through spring. Aorn it's booked until the end of april.

Got my camera hooked up. As usual the hardest part for me was cramming the plug and switch into the box. There's gotta be a trick to this.

Flipped the breaker and.......nothing. After close inspection it turns out I had the switch upside down. Lol me. I'm leaving it that way because it was so hard to get it in.

Works like a charm. I can see my alleyway as well as their back yard and pool area.

In this thread we get to witness bb become the creepy old guy next door with the camera on his neighbors swimming pool.

Too late.

next sign=== all noise is recorded and if loud will be played back at 5 am.

A little hopeful news. My wife's brother was moved to the VA. I don't know the details really. But it sounds encouraging.

Got my two signs and was able to get them up before the current crop of invaders showed up.

Another all day party at the pool. *

Also got another security camera for the front of the house. Unfortunately my wifi isn't strong enough to run it. I bought a signal booster in hopes I can get it operating.

Well, it seems the camera mounted on the front of the house might be an issue. It isn't getting a consistently good wifi signal.

I thought about trying to move the router but that would require running cable through a wall and I'm not interested in that.

I bought a wifi extender/booster but either I bought one thats crap or that solution just won't work. I dunno.

They have some sort of setup to run the signal through the power line but it isn't waterproof and I would probably have to run even more wire to get that working.

They have an outdoor booster but it requires running ethernet cable. Again, not something i want to do but I'm thinking it might be the easiest of the options.

How about this for a next step? You would obviously want to paint murals on them, inside and out.

f'ing great idea.

We are going to raise the height on the fence if we determine it's on our property.

Even better, project the picture of your house to the outside of the wall, so nobody knows you have a wall until they smash their nose into it.

cameras dont have to work to be effective. they only show what happened previously anyway and of little use other than a deterrent.

all you can do is deter people from renting and keep them more in line when they are there.

you did say you could afford three houses but choose not to so your problems are your own doing to some extent. as you moved there knowing you had close by neighbors and it could be a short term rental.

you may need to do some rethinking of living there if this is going to ruin things in your life. unless you buy the place things are not going to change for the better.

LOL, I can't afford 3 houses. Not even close.

I am rethinking things for sure. I will say that, after many conversations with the other neighbor, who has been here a long time, it seems that there have been other problems in the neighborhood but things change. Hopefully I can work through this one.

I just filed a complaint with vrbo. We'll see what happens.

What is the complaint? "Those goddamned pesky kids next door keep swimming in the POOL!"

This thread has me convinced that everybody is overreacting, or that there is something fundamentally wrong with American society.

both

Yep, those two things are definitely not mutually exclusive.

but proves if you chose to live in close proximity to someone they become part of your life , like it or not.

remember the experiment they did with rats when they packed them in close together. they started eating each other.

it is really a question of saving money. pack in close and it costs less. it costs more to have space. each person has to decide how much space they need from others and what they are willing to pay for that.

There is something fundamentally wrong with humans.

I’m moving to Mars. And Building a domed home right on the edge of that great canyon so I have a grand view. No neighbors. Annoying visitors will be jettisoned out the air lock into the canyon.

So, a lot of this is really some psychological issues I have. I admit this.

Bad experiences in the past tend to trigger me more than I'm sure what would be considered normal. I've had multiple bad experiences with barking dogs so any barking dog close by really triggers me.

The bad rental we just got away from definitely has affected me.

Also, I've done a bit of googling and I'm pretty sure I have a touch of this. Maybe more than a touch.

It's funny, though. I don't really want to reveal anything about my wife, but in this case it's more about me. She snores. A LOT and loudly. Most of the night. Doesn't bother me in the least. I sort of made up my mind early in our relationship that I simply wasn't going to be bothered by it. I wish I could do this for the next door sounds.

you are putting more into this than there is. this kind of shi=t is all around us and bothers every body.
it aint you its them.

over analyze? Me? say it aint' so.

Yeah, thanks. Good to hear. I will say I've talked to every neighbor and all of them are pissed.

In other news.... This security camera thing is driving me insane. I'm not getting a strong enough wifi signal on one of the cameras. I've been debugging and it isn't that camera. I tried another that has been working fine and it quit. I went to Spectrum and got a pod, which is supposed to boost the signal. I moved the camera to the inside of the window and put the pod 5' away. Still a weak signal. They are coming out to look at it today.

So..... the insurance thing is beyond stupid now. We FINALLY got everything worked out so they would accept me. However, a law went into effect here that says any new policy requestor MUST also have flood insurance. This is a statewide law that affects anyone, regardless where there home is - flood zone or not. Pretty stupid. Because they cancelled my old one I'm now bound to this law. Turns out flood insurance is even more than home insurance. First quote - over $11,000 a year. YIKES! Methinks I will be self insuring.

some such as met life have a 10000 deductible. that may save lots on rates.
but i self insure and invest that money myself instead of paying them and having them invest it at a return higher than their expected payouts.

ive done it all my life and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance costs and made very much over that investing that money myself over time.

I may or may not be learning about wifi.

So, when I first set a camera up, it shows very good signal strength. Then it seems to degrade. I think I've finally figured it out. It seems that wifi routers work on two different speeds - 2.4gz and 5.0 gz.

My spectrum router, it seems, claims to be "smart" and changes frequencies on the fly. My camera does not like this AT ALL. In fact, it just goes offline. Apparently there are routers where you can pick the frequency (2.4, 5, or router makes the decision). No such luck with this one.

The spectrum guy came out and the first thing he said after I explained everything is "get a better router". Sure enough, I googled spectrum router performance and it came back "mediocre". Ha.

So, I bought a mesh system that is supposed to work for a 3,000 sq. ft. house (mine is just north of half of that). I did a lot of research and this particular one by far got the best marks from folks that bought different systems.

I'll be setting it up this weekend, which will require a ton of work for every device that is connected. Fingers crossed.

I got a new router over the winter from Comcast. They made the claim that if I didn't change the network name and password on setup, all devices would just "find" the new router. Might be something to inquire about.

Of course, I wanted a new network name, so spent a fair amount of time reconnecting. Much like finding the clocks that I forgot about after DST change, it took a little while.