Thursday, November 15, 2007
If your neighbors have a trashy lawn with four immobile cars and a dog that won’t stop crapping in your shrubs, tell the world about it on www.rottenneighbor.com.
The Web site lets you warn others about bad neighbors or give props to good ones. It’s free and easy to use. Simply register with a name and password, then use the site’s global map to mark a neighbor’s house as “rotten” or “rad.” Then write about your neighbors using the site’s blog function.
User NeedaVacay recently posted the following:
“Put two divorcees together with a combined five kids in a three-bedroom townhouse and you have yourself one **** uva crazy family to deal with. Loud, annoying, obnoxious. Like living next to the Manson family. We’ve lived here for two years and have their daily arguments down to a science. Starting at 11 p.m. every single night and not ending sometimes until the wee hours of the morning. Cops don’t even show up anymore. Ugh...”
But that’s not all. In addition to being a forum for flaming or saluting your neighbors, the site offers tips for mediation, and creator Brant Walker says he hopes to give users the ability to send postcards-of-concern to users in the future.
“If their dog is pooping on their yard, this can be the first step toward mediation,” Walker says. “We want people to be able to resolve their problems.”
Walker, who says the site can be used as a real estate tool for agents looking to sell houses, created the site after dealing with his own rotten neighbors. He says his neighbors cooked food that smelled horrible and the smell wafted into his home through open windows.
“They have some really bad food cooking going on,” he says.
The site, which has had more than 1 million visitors, lists two rotten houses in Lawrence.
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