[Quilla]

The house next door to ours is empty. The owner, however, mowed the grass for a couple of months right after we moved into the rural neighborhood. He hasn't been back since. I mowed his yard for two years and finally said, "to heck with it!" In the six years since, vines and shrubs have grown up to the fascia, the grass is several feet high. Everyone on our road is upset with the owner (an attorney who lives in town) as we feel it makes our rather upscale neighborhood look shabby. Yet to expend my time and resources seems unfair. WWTCD?

[Sloth]

Put a 'For Sale' sign in the yard w/ the lawyer's phone number.

[TC Rider]

WWTCD?

Have you spoken to him?

Are there any neighborhood covenents? I would have no qualms about enforcing covenants against an absentee owner, especially one who's a lawyer.