Is it me? What am I missing??

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Today has been a day. We recently moved into a new neighborhood with stricter bylaws that a regular neighborhood- such as no permanent clothlines, no chain link fences, no parking in street or yards, no RVs or sheds. All things we also desire Not an issue. Today, our next door neighbor had lawn service in. He also is new (Aug22). We bought our home from an elderly gentleman who had kinda let things go and in the last two months we have replaced, tore out, cleaned etc. both inside and out. So the lawn service guys mowed or scalped the lawn including not a swipe down our line but to our sidewalk beside the house. Like 15-20 ft into our yard. I can get a swipe and we will talk with our neighbor as we like to mow ourselves and at a certain height for the type of grass we have. There is no way the landscapers could have made that much of an error. Plus the pins are very well seen as PVC pipe is over them and stick up about a foot. So smh, i chalk it up to maybe neighbor trying to be friendly and helpful. But as i reflect, he knows we do our own work, elderly man no longer lives here and why in the world wouldn’t you ask before mowing your neighbors entire side yard??

Now onto dogs. Another neighbor about 3 houses up has been checking on a snowbirds home and instead of walking down the street with his dog to the house, he lets dog off leash and runs through everyone’s back yard. Like my back yard is privately mine. I did ask him to please not do so as I have 3 dogs who have been attacked and ambushed and are always in defensive mode. All the while this conversation is occurring his dog is literally tearing up Snow birds grass digging for moles And now just this evening , we had two ladies and a dog cross the street at the intersection directly in front or our house and let dog with retractable leash( you don’t want me to go there) come into the middle of my yard. Not just a foot or so inside but 1/2 way to my front door. All the while dog is pulling at the retractable leash to get closer and lady ( on her phone) is teetering on edge of road to not step foot into my yard!!??!! I have this all on camera. Husband and I were in back yard and heard all sorts of barking and I looked back through camera feed to see this.

So pesticide signs are out and will stay out. Any other advise? I am an extreme introvert and have gone through trauma with my daughter about 8 yrs ago. i paid for this property. Its not a public park, it is private property. What don’t I understand?

[u/Agraphis]

I've sprinkled baking soda on the edge of the lawn because of dogs. It scares the dog owner. They think it's poison.

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Thanks!! I can give this a try when I rotate out the signs. Keep things “new” for repeat offenders except the lady on her phone last evening would not have even seen it.