Thread: grass too high!

We've never gotten anything from the city but the old biddies that walk the neighborhoods for the HOA about drive me up the wall. They send letters once a week threatening to fine you if you don't cut your grass, pick your weeds... blah blah blah... and I don't mean 4 inch grass here, I'm talking if it's even an eighth of an inch taller than they think it should be they are sending those letters. It is so annoying!

i wish they'd fine people for that around here. my next door neighbors (for the next 8 days, we are moving) NEVER cuts their grass. it is about up to my knees now but give it another month and it'll be up to my shoulders. they have a big dog that craps all over the back yard and they never clean it up so of course it smells and the flies come over here. and then there is the trash..........all over the yard. next is their kids.........5 of them always ringing my door bell wanting to play with my kids, or playing in the back of my husband's truck, or getting in my mail box, or darting across my driveway when i'm backing out of the garage. i'm SO happy to be getting the hell out of here.

sorry about your situation though, i didn't mean to ramble so much in your post. it just triggered a nerve about my neigbors.

We live in a small town with a city council that thinks they own us. The police actually has a yard stick and measures the grass. Oh yes he does. We have to keep clean yards and are not allowed to have a vehicle out of regestriation. We had a suburban that needed some work. We thought we would eventually fix it up for our son. The body was in excellant shape. We kept it mowed around and under it. The city forced us to get rid of it. We have had several neighbors in the same shape. One neighbor had some 50 gallon oil drums. He collects aluminum and copper, etc for extra money that he needs. Kept it neatly in the drums and hauled them off regularly. He was told to get rid of the drums. And also that he was regularly selling from his property. That meant he was running a business from a private zoned area and if he didn't quit, he'd be fined. Our neighbors house burned down. After 3 weeks, they were told they would be fined $500 PER DAY if they didn't get it cleaned up. I could go on and on. There is nothing we can do.

Smile! Tell em you can't afford the gas! Go to court and plead gas prices. Judge wil have to laugh and throw it out!

Better yet since gas is so high I have a few goats that would love some fresh grass. I will loan them out.The neighbors ask about them all the time.
I am sure the person who called will love the sound of a goat baa at two in the morning..lmao

Originally Posted by JKATHERINE

You guys get fined for long grass?? WTH? Do towns just need another way to eeek money out of people? We can have our grass as long as we like it. In fact, the people that lived here before us let the grass in the field grow out so it could be cut for hay later.

I don't live in a town, but i know here in Iowa there are alot of cities that do it. But i think it has to be pretty tall before they step in. Or at least i thought it did.
How tall was/is yours? Do you have a rider or walk behind. I know with my neck just driving our zero turn gets to me. Our lawn (in the country) is bumpy.

It's cut now. It's not even like we have a large front yard. The back yard isn't visible. The grass wasn't that tall but we had about 12 of those weed things that grow tall that when you blow on them they fluff apart. I think they may be called dandy lions. Anyway I talked to one of the neighbors and he said there is a neighbor one street over who drives around checking everyone's yard. Well it was a first for us.