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Old 08-15-2004, 01:28 PM
robert-r robert-r is offline
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We went through something similar where we live in San Diego.
The first thing the neighborhood did was form a neighborhood watch group and held a meeting at which a policeman gave a bit of a talk to the group about what we could do.
The assholes that were ****ing everyone off were also invited.
It was interesting, because the policeman made us aware that if we all kept a journal of our complaints and frequently called the police to report noise, criminal behavior, etc we could establish a case where we could as a group or individually sue the owner of the house for damages.
This technique is slow, usually takes a year or more to set-up and frequently results in the owner of the house loosing it in a civil judgement.
Of course, the jerks we invited didn't care. We individually told them what was making us angry and they pretended that they were not a problem.
The owner of the house did care, but the cops raided the place a few weeks later.
The new renters are a pretty good this time.
Bob
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