New Neighbors.

One of the less lovely things about living on the street I do is that the house next to us is a hovel of a rental property. The owner will not let the tenants in the house to do any repairs etc. So during the previous renters long tenacy it fell into massive disrepair. How the house has not been tagged as a code violation is beyond me. As a direct result of the less than desirable house, the crappy landlord and the low rent. We have now had two sets of new neighbors since the beggining of the year..
First Set: Three Kids under 10, 4 adults and tons of trash @@ which they left outside about 4 feet away from our back window for over 3 weeks.. Talk about stench. They finally moved when they had to take the landlord to court because when they where one day late with the rent he changed the locks and through their belongings out into the street.. Fun Fun that was.. They where here a little over 5 months total and played their music all hours of the day sooo loudly that I could hear it clearly at the other side of my house.
Second Set: Moved in over the last few weeks after coming over to clean for the time before that. They are still cleaning..( house couldnt have been THAT bad) and only seem to do it at 2 AM in the morning.. Followed by them pouring the cleaning chemicals into the backyard so the WHOLE street and yard area reek all night long. The front sidewalk is covered with empty ciggarette packages and ciggarette butts. They had yet to introduce themselves to us so we wherent sure of the size of the family. Just that it had a few kids.. As of this evening I know there is AT LEAST 3 adults and 3 children 5 and under living there. How do I know this?? Because the one adult pounced on us when we came home this evening trying to beg for Ciggarettes. Sorry, I dont smoke. Thats why my sidewalk is NOT covered with butts @@ NO, I didn't actually say that.
I don't give them long really. The neighbor behind them is a set in her ways elderly woman who made the long term tenants miserable when they where there.. and the one across the street is much the same.. They are sweet women to the good, quiet, clean, hardworking families on the street.. but when those that have no care for the neighborhood and show it with their trash, their volume and their screaming.. Yes screaming.. at 4 am.. at the kids none the less.. They let them know in big and little ways that they would prefer they move their residency somewhere else.
It really is sad because we would love to have some nice, hard working family with kids live next door that we could be friends with. Alex would love to have a boy his age next door. Doesnt seem likely though. Instead we get 5-6 month tenants with no care for parking places, trash ordinances, noise ordinances or general consideration for their neighbors.