https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:12:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875285 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:38:04 +0000 LindsayInNY 875285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since you know the house they're going to, could you knock on their door and say something? Explain that you don't know who they other kids are/where they live but they're clearly going to that house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875268 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:28:08 +0000 Boheme 875268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are totally those neighbors too. We live in the center of a cul de sac and a family down the street lets their 3 and 4 year old play in the middle of it and in our driveway in their power wheels Mercedes. It annoys the crap out of me because I always have to wait for them to move when I'm leaving the house or coming home, but I've never said anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875044 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:23:21 +0000 Sprite 875044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would totally be yelling at the kids too!</p> <p>Actually, as a little kid I remember getting yelled at by our elderly neighbors, and them having a talk with my parents about us playing in their yard and riding our bikes in their driveway. They cited liability issues if we got hurt on their property, which is actually a really valid point. We never liked those neighbors after getting yelled at, but we definitely knew to stay away! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875031 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:16:34 +0000 MsMamaBear 875031@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's why I have a fence in the backyard. I had kids cutting through the back, just getting on my nerves. Don't get me started on people with their dogs and their crap they leave behind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875024 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:13:41 +0000 spaniellove 875024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Leialou: @NaturallyCathy: One time I looked out and saw that someone had actually brought his dog into the middle of our yard, unleashed the dog, and was playing like they were in a park! When he saw me looking he put the leash back on and left. Go play in your own yard people! My yard is not the city park! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875014 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:08:01 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 875014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Leialou: Ooooo don't get me started on that. The people next door and on the corner (they're related) let their dogs come over here All. The. Time. They'll just be standing in the neighbor's yard, watching their dog take a dump in MY yard. Of course, when I come outside, they're all apologies, telling their dog to get off my lawn, but come on. Seriously? You're just going to stand there and watch it happen? What is wrong with you people!</p> <p>I really am a grumpy old man at heart... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875010 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:05:14 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 875010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't mind kids playing in my yard, but I get so mad when someone walking their dog lets them go to the bathroom in my yard!! It's my dogs territory, not theirs. And I don't even let my dogs go in the front. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875008 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:04:40 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 875008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: That's the thing, it just isn't our yard. To get from that corn, they have to cut through two other people's yards in addition to mine to get to the person on the other corner! You'd think the other people would have complained already! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-875002 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:02:47 +0000 Foodnerd81 875002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It would be easier if you knew their parents-- I could see going to the parents and just saying pretty much what you said here-- I know this used to be vacant, but we are trying to keep the lawn up and it would be easier if the kids wouldn't cut through the yard. I feel like if you go out and tell the kids it will come off like you are yelling at them or something. </p> <p>I can totally remember my brother and sister cutting through someone's yard and getting yelled at and coming home and laughing or being mad about it. Now I realize how obnoxious that is. Kids that age have no sense. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874978 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:49:46 +0000 avivoca 874978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, we had that problem in one house we lived rented. The neighbor's son and his friends (all about 14-15) were always going through our yard on their bikes/dirt bikes, which was annoying and tore up our yard, but then they started knocking on the doors and running away. Thankfully, we moved a few months later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874970 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:47:18 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 874970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: I have never seen them. Honestly. Not once. All I see are these kids running around like a wild pack of dogs. They're between 8 and 10 and they all know each other but they just run around wild! No bicycle helmets when they ride up and down the street, half dressed.... I wish school were back in session! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874969 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:46:31 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 874969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NaturallyCathy: They need to learn respect at some point. If they're going to watch your kids at some point, don't you want to know that they respect you and your home first? :-) </p> <p>I choose a not-so-subtle approach and go outside and stare them down until they get off my lawn - he he </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874966 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:45:56 +0000 swedishfish 874966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NaturallyCathy: they don't have dibs - it's not their yard!!! Where are their parents? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874963 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:44:49 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 874963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bookworm: Seriously, I went out there one time with the intent of telling them not to do it but they were little girls and I didn't have the heart to do it so I just told them to be careful around the cars... Ugh. I'm a wuss but it irks me so! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874959 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:43:38 +0000 Bookish 874959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NaturallyCathy: I am totally THAT person, too. I absolutely freaking hate kids riding up and down my driveway. I know it makes me a huge grumpy poo, but I dunno, it just really rubs me the wrong way. I'm sure they are good kids, but WTF, get off my property! DH thinks I'm crazy..... :p </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874958 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:43:17 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 874958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@spaniellove: We've only had the house for four months so I mean, really, I get it. It sat empty for a year, we're new to the neighborhood, they've got dibs <i>but it's my yard</i>! </p> <p>Sigh. </p> <p>There's no good or easy way to build a fence around our front yard so I guess I'll just politely ask them to not do it anymore. The worst part is that I'm a SAHM, it's hard for me not to watch the street and the blurs of color, shrieking of laughter that like to cut through my front yard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874944 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:38:00 +0000 spaniellove 874944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I've done that. I'm that person! The owner who lived here before us was out of town 5 days a week so he didn't know what was going on. Plus we're the only people who don't park outside so it always looks like no one's home....so on their way home, the middle school boys use our driveway as a ramp for their bikes, they ride across our lawn, the older boys sprawl out across our lawn, it's gross. The neighbors thought I was insane for going out and telling them to leave. </p> <p>@NaturallyCathy: We have kids sometimes cut through our backyard to get to the schoolyard at night and short of getting a fence, I dont know how to stop them. I open the door and gesture to them but then just shrug and keep walking.</p> <p>ETA: Sorry typo, they, not them just shrug! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874943 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:37:58 +0000 mediagirl 874943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm with you. That would drive me sooooo bonkers. But what can you do? Maybe talk to their parents? Argh. Frustrating!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874939 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:36:55 +0000 swedishfish 874939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha, I totally understand! Our neighbor's son used to be "tutored" in lacrosse and he and his tutor would always end up playing in our front yard. I made DH speak to the neighbor saying we didn't want one of our new windows broken accidentally. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874931 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:34:39 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 874931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: But the bright young eager faces of youth! One day, these kids might be babysitting my kids! I don't want them to hate us on sight but... my yard, my car! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874926 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:32:59 +0000 loveisstrange 874926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NaturallyCathy: oh heck no. Id definitely be yelling. They need to know its not okay for them to be on your property </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874915 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:30:34 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 874915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@katsupgirl: That must get old! My other thing is that apparently we have a great driveway for them to ride their bikes up and down on. I mean, seriously? Our driveway is just a dead end, goes into our garage and our (thankfully) gated backyard. They aren't going anywhere from our driveway, just like to take their bikes up and down and up and down and up and down...</p> <p>What if they hit my car? Grrrr! So frustrating! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874914 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:30:10 +0000 loveisstrange 874914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Im totally that person! Tell them to get off your lawn! They have to learn its rude anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874911 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:29:40 +0000 MrsH 874911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NaturallyCathy: best to teach them young to respect other people's property? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874903 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:27:44 +0000 katsupgirl 874903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm straight up that homeowner too! LOL! Stay outta my yard! I'm in the city so I have a gate. Kids like to climb over the stoops from one house to the next. I've been known to be the crazy lady with a stick! They don't take me too seriously and I'm not terribly mean about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874901 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:26:55 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 874901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsH: They're young, probably about eight years old, and they're cutting over from the other street instead of walking to the corner to get to their friend's house who lives on the other corner and... well... it just bugs me! I'm happy they're happy but couldn't they stay off my little patch of grass? Geez. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874898 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:25:21 +0000 MrsH 874898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live on a river and I yell at people all the time to get off my lawn. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-that-homeowner#post-874889 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:22:41 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 874889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I realize that we're new to the neighborhood. I realize the house has been empty for over a year. I realize that these kids have been living in this neighborhood for (more than likely) all their short lives.</p> <p>But every time I see one of the countless neighborhood kids making their way through my lawn, barefoot or on their bikes, dressed in their summer clothes and enjoying their summer vacation with friends - all I can think is 'Get off my lawn! Stop cutting through my yard! Go around!'</p> <p>Ugh. I've become Mr. Wilson... </p>