u/Alone-Ad-8022

Hey there, using a throwaway to avoid doxxing myself. This is part rant part legal question, so sorry if it's not allowed.

I live within city limits in Asheville North Carolina. A house in my neighborhood has been mostly abandoned since Hurricane Helene. The old woman who lived there now lives full time with her family in a nearby city. Her son-in-law would come around and mow the lawn during the warm months, but other than that nobody's been there since around October 2024.

Within the past few months some folks have moved into the house. It doesn't seem like it went up for sale, we think it's the family of the woman who used to live there. Anyway, that's not important.

First they showed up with a junk car, which it's like, hey, we get it, y'know, you can't always have a nice car. I've been broke, had piece of shit cars before, so no shame there. Then they parked an old beat-up very dirty RV on the property. Then today they parked a boat on the property.

This is within city limits in a residential neighborhood. We hate to be "those neighbors," but my wife and I both have had nuisance neighbors before, and we want to get out in front of it if this becomes a situation like that. They don't fit the vibe of the neighborhood, folks here keep their properties up -- it's not a fancy schmancy neighborhood by any means, we're not talkin' professional landscaping services or anything, just ordinary people doing their best to keep their place nice looking. Another reason they don't fit the vibe of the neighborhood is that the guy who lives there walked up to my wife without a shirt on while she was gardening and it's like, "wtf, get the out of here with that dude, come on." We don't want to see our neighborhood go down the drain.

And again, y'know, I hate to be that neighbor. I know what it's like to be the broke person that people look down on, I've been homeless before, I've been trashy as hell, and I've worked really hard not to be that person anymore, and we've both worked really hard to live in a neighborhood that we can be proud of.

Is there anything we can do?

Hey there, using a throwaway to avoid doxxing myself. This is part rant part legal question, so sorry if it's not allowed.

I live within city limits in Asheville North Carolina. A house in my neighborhood has been mostly abandoned since Hurricane Helene. The old woman who lived there now lives full time with her family in a nearby city. Her son-in-law would come around and mow the lawn during the warm months, but other than that nobody's been there since around October 2024.

Within the past few months some folks have moved into the house. It doesn't seem like it went up for sale, we think it's the family of the woman who used to live there. Anyway, that's not important.

First they showed up with a junk car, which it's like, hey, we get it, y'know, you can't always have a nice car. I've been broke, had piece of shit cars before, so no shame there. Then they parked an old beat-up very dirty RV on the property. Then today they parked a boat on the property.

This is within city limits in a residential neighborhood. We hate to be "those neighbors," but my wife and I both have had nuisance neighbors before, and we want to get out in front of it if this becomes a situation like that. They don't fit the vibe of the neighborhood, folks here keep their properties up -- it's not a fancy schmancy neighborhood by any means, we're not talkin' professional landscaping services or anything, just ordinary people doing their best to keep their place nice looking. Another reason they don't fit the vibe of the neighborhood is that the guy who lives there walked up to my wife without a shirt on while she was gardening and it's like, "wtf, get the out of here with that dude, come on." We don't want to see our neighborhood go down the drain.

And again, y'know, I hate to be that neighbor. I know what it's like to be the broke person that people look down on, I've been homeless before, I've been trashy as hell, and I've worked really hard not to be that person anymore, and we've both worked really hard to live in a neighborhood that we can be proud of.

Is there anything we can do?