September 27, 2007
Are You Sure You Want to Live There?
Real estate search engine Rotten Neighbor promises to help you "find bad neighbors before you move." What evils have users uncovered behind the closed doors of the Emerald City?
Near Carkeek Park:
Grouchy Old Man w/ Loud MusicWallingford, at Stone & 45th:
The grouchy old man who lives here likes to play his radio very loudly in his backyard. Lately he has begun playing it in the middle of the night and the cops have been called several times.
gentrification sucksJust north of U Village:
Seems a lot noisier around here since T-Mobile and Starbucks moved in. There's definitely a lot more light pollution. And don't get me started on the girls at the tanning salon who park their scooters in the MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK.
Really noisy areaWest Seattle, Delridge & Hudson:
The bus stops early in the morning, the Volvo dealership is really noisy on weekend mornings. There is a bar up the street that pours out a few loud drunks at about 2:00 a.m..
Crack Heads Be HereMercer Island:
droves of crackheads, methzombies and the ilk congregate here. Much crime in this neighborhood.
Insane OCD neighbor
Crazy 40+year old guy lives with his parents. He obsessively washes his many cars and has put chain across his drive to stop cars turning around in his driveway despite it being a dead-end street with very little traffic ever coming through. He also likes to complain about people going too fast on the street and even went as far as throwing nails in our driveway and writing 'slow down' in the dirt on my brother's car. Beware him and his crazy parents who will try to cook you in a stew if you accidentally walk on their property.
Yesler & 16th:
Like your sleep? Dont move here!It's fun to skim through the dirt, though right now there's not a lot of it, and the site doesn't filter any more precisely than King County. (Which on their site, for some reason, includes Bremerton.) Rotten Neighbor doesn't display the map address with each comment, which can make browsing tedious.
Neighbors on all sides are bad news. Daycare with loud mostly unsupervised children, up and screaming outside your windows as early as 6am.
Neighbors on other side come home drunk with friends on weeknights at 2 am, hang out in the street, blast their stereos and rev car engines.All around its really quaint! Make sure and move here if you don't like to sleep at all! :)
Our question: How long until someone with an eye on a particular property "spills the beans" on the "meth lab," "all-hours speakeasy," or "v v loud dog kennel" next door? All's fair in love and real estate.
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ha, I think it says something about Seattle that the guy depicted on the map above is construed as a "bad neighbor" here.
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I guess full disclosure's a good thing... But I'd hate to see this turn into a tattle-tale forum. "Yeah this guy grows weed and I used to buy it from him but now I don't but he still grows it. Just fyi."
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I'm just tickled that someone still thinks it's worth bitching about fresh gentrification in Wallingford.
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Wallingford's character is being completely destroyed! That corner used to be a great place to hang out with the family. We could get shitty food and service(even for McDonalds), dash between speeding cars who thought they were still on Aurora, and go count the utility vehicles parked across the street in the city lot. That's a full day of neighborhood fun, that is. Now we're reduced to smashing beer bottles in the open pit mine on Stone Way.
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I think the West Seattle poster got confused with 3rd and Pike.
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If I had rotten neighbors like these, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKckQ4REU7M I'd surely add them into the site...these people are a nuisance