I am avoiding my new neighbor :)

Oh gwad... I just hate that!!! Pretty soon she is going to be selling all that expensive health stuff and makeup stuff.... ya know, $100 a bottle to either make you look good or lose 100 pounds in a week.

People that sell stuff like that drive me bat shit crazy. Today I got two messages from the "IRS" that said I hadn't paid the full amount and had to call back the number or I would be sorry. Well, I didn't want to be sorry so I called him back. I think he was sorry.

My new neighbor is a lady cop. She is not happy that my son had a few friends over for beer pong, my other neighbor listens to music when he works in his yard (I can't hear it), already put a speed trap at the top of the hill and went off on a neighbor for a peeing dog. She later admitted she didn't hear my kids but was worried when she saw the ping pong table in the garage. They are really the most mellow kids.

oh wow. I would tell her no thanks, then just wave from a distance.

When you said clipboard I immediately thought about the Peas who have spreadsheets. Thought maybe she was making her own spreadsheet of the neighborhood!

I totally thought this,too!  You know, getting addresses, phone numbers, names of the people living in the house.  Just a little demographics.   As someone with a crappy memory, I'd secretly love to do this if I moved into a new area but could never get up the nerve to do it.  Of course, I'd stop there and not collect all the details a 2peas spreadsheet keeper would.  

I'm all for solar power, but the "sales force" in my area is making me crazy. One in ten neighbors is posting about the deal being offered, one guy is such a creep.

And another thing- People I've known have always offered to spilt any incentives they get for a referral (car or real estate sale, etc) . I thought it was the polite norm. Well, one mom in our group had referred all of us to her solar sales person, and told us she needs the $500/ person referral fee if we buy, because of kid expenses. Well duh- our kids are in the same activities. She's now Ms. Energy expert, the same way she is organic zen health expert as she pulls up huffing away on her cigarettes.
Sorry. I judge. And turned this to my own vent thread...

Rude neighbors are just that- rude!

I wouldn't avoid her on the basis of her gathering names, but I also have no problems saying no to things like that.

When you see her run and lock your door! 

Well, that's a hell of a way to introduce yourself to the neighborhood!

I would've dodged her too.

WTH, way to make your neighbors hate you right off the bat.

I kind of got sucked into something like this with a new neighbor.  They bought the house across the street.  Seemed like a nice couple.  Next thing I know they are at my door inviting me to a get-to-know-you dinner.  I said "Isn't it supposed to be the other way around and we welcome you into the neighborhood?" and she laughed.  She said she loved to cook and wanted to get to know her neighbors, so why not combine the two?  Okay.

I went and we had a nice enjoyable dinner, exchanged phone numbers and emails, and I told her I would have her to dinner next.  A few days later, she drops by to give me a brochure.  She is a realtor.  I had casually mentioned I was going to be selling in a couple of years and moving up north.  Okay, no big harm done there, I took the brochures and went inside.  

Then the emails start coming in every few days, telling me what is selling in the 'hood.  Then she emails that she has a buyer for my house, which she has never seen, by the way!!!!  Her client wants a 4-bedroom home with a pool in our area.  I don't remember ever mentioning my pool, but she obviously can look at a google map and see it.  I said I wasn't ready to move yet, but thanks.  She tried a little bit of pressure telling me how much easier this would be, I wouldn't have to do a thing to my house or ever go through the hassle of listing it.  All very appealing, but I am so not ready to sell yet.  And every time I tell her this, she doesn't hear me.  

She has been sending me stuff about how to prepare your house, what is selling in our area, blablabla.  I am sick of it.  She also leaves stuff on my front door regularly.  Flyers with little personal notes about how she knocked and was sorry to have missed me.  I don't hear knocking on my door when I am upstairs with my bedroom door shut, but I don't tell her that.  Everyone else that knows me and comes by without warning knows to text me that they are at my door.  She dropped by something for every occasion, flowers for mother's day, a flag for the 4th, etc.  She is marketing me so strongly and I haven't ever asked her anything about listing my home.  I already have a realtor that I am going to be using.  It just bugs me that she assumes that since I had dinner at her home, she will end up selling my home for me.  If she ever directly asked me, I would tell her. But she is doing the kill them with kindness thing and it makes me feel very awkward.  She has no idea that Mom has passed away and I have moved up my game plan to sell sooner than anticipated.  I guess she will be surprised when a sign goes up in front of my house from my realtor of choice.

I hate when neighbors market to me so strongly.  I feel trapped and uncomfortable.