All Forum Posts by: Marshall Henry

What if he comes back with even more issues down the line?  

Thanks for taking the time and sharing your thoughts!

I’ve considered The idea of just letting this one slide in order to alleviate the stress. My concern with that is the whole giving the rat a piece of cheese. 
will there be something else that bothers him? 

I’ve considered that! Lol

I do not think he owns it though, my assumption is that he’s renting! According to the county’s assessor’s website at least. 

I appreciate the thoughtful feedback!

I have considered that. Moving the dumpster and returning it on trash days. Which would be fine for now.  However, we get nasty winters here, and it would be almost impossible to push it through the snow. 

 Thank you for your response! Unfortunately we do not have the option of recycling currently. Therefore everything goes in the same bins. I’ll investigate that though. I’ll double check with the city on the recycling and perhaps that could be a good solution. 

I had told him to contact the city. Which he did. 
I also decided not to message him back after a couple text messages. 

I love your idea about the fence. And that is something we have considered.   And is the mostly likely solution. He has a bunch of junk in his yard that we don’t care to see either 

There is nothing he can do as I got permission from the city and it’s on my property. He would be trespassing. 
However I do want to do my best to alleviate his concerns. 

@Colleen F. I appreciate your thoughts on the matter. The city picks up once a week. $10 for an extra pick up. The units are (2) 950 sqft. 2bed 1bath And 1bed 1bath that we I live in. There is also no recycling available. This dumpster is the smallest commercial grade. It’s 400gal. It is not massive by any means. And takes up less space than (4) 90 gal bins. This is not the only dumpster of its kind on the street. There are several. Because of that, I didn’t think it would be out of place. I understand what you said about attracting other people’s trash. That could definitely happen. I don’t think the chances are high because everyone on that street has at least (2) 90gal bins and some (1) 300gal with (1) 90gal and like I’ve mentioned, a  few dumpsters just like mine. 
I am not without understanding of his complaints. The issue is I do not believe a smaller bin would work. I’ve contacted the city about getting it moved to a different location and they said that’s about the only place it would work. 
I do not agree with telling my tenants that they need to produce less trash. So that is a non starter for me 

@Genny Li thanks for your reply. I’ll post a picture ASAP.

I could do two per unit. That would be $100 more in cost.

Some context: I disagreed with this logic because it is not any closer to his house than it is to mine. Also this is a back ally way (behind the properties on our street and behind the properties on the next street over if that makes sense) dedicated for trash pick up. There are dumpsters and trash bin all over this ally way (including his) because this is the ally the trucks use. 
I assume the reason for this is so that people do not have their trash bins in the front of their properties. 
Also if this is considered next to his property, then the bins are going to be next to the other neighbors’ property and off of my property completely because that’s where they were when I moved in. The trash was over flowing our first day in. That’s just from both tenants. I couldn’t imagine what it would look like with our trash added. 

However most of all, and probably my biggest frustration, he saw me earlier that day, we had a conversation. I saw him the day before, I said hello. Neither time did he bring up the issue with me. He chose to send a threatening texts. I think that’s absolute lack of respect. 

I appreciate the reply @Nathan Gesner