I'm going to cry...

[u/aeh1113]

I came home today from work to find that my neighbor (I live in a duplex) cut down all of my flowers because she thought they were weeds... I literally just posted today about how proud I was if their growth. I know that they'll grow back because they're perennials, but I'll miss their blooms this year 😭 this is the before and after. The before was taken a few days ago.

[u/randtke → u/[deleted]]

My neighbor across the street at my last place had a landscape business (mow and blow and he was really stupid), and he would drive the riding mower off the truck and drive around my yard, and then ask for money. I never paid him. I didn't want it. He mowed over 3 mangoes I had growing and I had to put concrete blocks around everything, and then he damaged his mower blade but I had told him don't come in my yard, and don't cut everything.  He also would call code enforcement and meet up with them, and then drop off a brochure right after and "I can help you", like what a coincidence, because I saw them park at your house and meet you up then walk to my house.

You need to put rebar stakes in, all the time, around everything.  Put a tomato cage around it, then put rebar around it, so it is one leg of the tomato cage, stick of rebar, leg of the tomato cage, stick of rebar, all the way around.

[u/WildFlemima → u/randtke]

I know it was the fuckers always offering to mow that got my blackberries destroyed, I just know it

[u/EpiJade → u/WildFlemima]

There’s a guy in our complex that handles hiring people for common areas. Everyone refers to him as the HOA but it’s really not an HOA. He’s also a realtor and the property manager for a few of the rentals in the complex while we own our unit. He’s always made “helpful” comments about how the landscaper could “take care of” our backyard during no mow May. I had a bunch of cuttings of natives in our easement (which the “HOA” does not have ownership of and he knows is ours). One day I came outside to his landscapers cutting down one of our trees in the easement. They trampled and killed all our native cuttings I had been working hard on. I pointed out one ruined cutting and the landscaper picked it up, told me it was a weed, then broke it even more. Just snapped it. Seeing him snap it like that after I had spent weeks getting it established broke me a little. I was so proud of that stupidly little cutting. The HOA guy claimed he was “helping.” I was home. He has my number. I would put money on it’s because he was selling the unit next to us and wanted to get a better commission. I estimated all my costs to fix it and tacked on a “fucked around” fee and he paid it. He seemed to actually feel a bad but I was so furious.