There appears to be a group of young people sharing the house. I think they are nice kids; a bit "hippy dippyish" I imagine the state of the prpoerty is a combo of thinking its "natural" and being just out of their teen years sort of like your high school bedroom only outside. We have had a number of situations like this in the neighborhood with Southern students and I always wonder what they would think if they went back to their parents' home in the burbs and the neighbor's property looked like this.

The untrimmed bushes also make it impossible to walk down the sidewalk on the Goffe terrace side.

So if you are reading this "Grow Up and Clean Up!"

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Hey I'm sorry you feel my home is "an eyesore" we've done our best to accommodate the neighbors pressure for our house to be more aesthetically pleasing. We all are busy with work,but in the future you can feel free to contact me eringaeltalbot@gmail.com if you have any reasonable requests but please refrain from snooping around our backyard its completely inappropriate and weird.

Your name underscores our point. You seem to be teenage hippies from the suburbs "slumming" it in New Haven. Did the houses you grew up in look like what you are living in now?

I work as well (long hours) but I take the time to clean up the trash in front of my house even though it was thrown there by someone else or left behind by the garbage crews. I also pull my toters into my driveway.

I am sensitive to keeping my sidewalk unobstructed so that my neighbors don't have to walk into the street.

We, your neighbors, are not looking for "aesthetically" pleasing we just don't want to be looking at a trash heap.

Finally we are not snooping. Your back yard can be seen by anyone walking down the street. And its not weird, its called community and you have a responsibility to the community.

P.S. I have a reasonable request. Rake your backyard, compost it or put it in brown bags for the City to pick up and compost.

Hey,

You can feel free to contact me via e-mail eringaeltalbot@gmail.com, we have followed up on trimming the bushes and mowing the lawn,the leaves just started falling so we are going to rake. I can't speak for my roommates but I have never had this issue at other apts/houses I have rented so I've been caught a little off guard by the amount of attention we are receiving. I looked up online and it is common for nicer neighborhoods to take concern with neighbors properties if they feel it is making the neighborhood look bad. We are doing our best to keep everyone happy I just would prefer to be contacted directly instead of calling the city on us. Also like I said,I'm not sure that it was you specifically but there have been multiple instances where my roommates and I were taken aback by strangers in our actual backyard,not just walking by.

And community is important to me, I've only been at this residence for a few months and I would have rather gotten to know neighbors under different circumstances.

Also I'm not sure what you mean by "slumming it" my other roommate has lived in our house for five+ years,I'm also local to New Haven and this is the nicest neighborhood I've lived in so I'm doing my best to learn what is expected and keep up with the requests. I signed it teenage hippy from suburbs since I thought it was funny that was the impression past roommates made (i'm not gonna deny it I think a few young hippy types lived here in the past lol)

but just to be clear we did everything that neighbors and the city asked of us,we bought lawn mower/mowed the lawn,we hired someone to do the bushes since the multiple attempts done by ourselves were not sufficient,we bought an industrial size dumpster to clean up after previous roommates who no longer live here,and now it's been brought to my concern that the leaves are also an issue. I honestly did not notice leaves but if its something that's upsetting you I will try to make sure no leaves are in the yard to the best of my ability.

I sincerely appreciate your concern and efforts. Just look at the nicely maintained houses in the neighborhood; that is the standard to which I aspire because I feel that I owe my neighbors that respect. And to dispel any notion that I would expect you to to start dumping fertilizer and pesticides on your lawn or grow a flower garden - I don't. But I do rake my leaves so my yard doesn't become a dark brown, mud hole and I do pick up the trash around my property even if I wasn't responsible for putting it there. Hell it takes about 2 minutes (literally) a day (and that's an average) to pick up the trash. Litter, overgrown bushes and otherwise badly maintained properties are depressing - I want to be happy. I want to walk outside and see nice stuff.

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