Elyssa,

I know how you feel. We had drug dealers living next to us in
our old house. We also had a bicycle theft ring across the
street. The theft ring was a bunch of kids who were taking
advantage of the fact Mom was away or worked nights. I
happened to see the kids moving a bunch of bikes from their
basement to the one next door. I mentioned it to my husband
and forgot about it. They were busted a couple of days after
that. I felt sorry for the Mom.

The drug dealers were also put out of business but it took
months of undercover buys which were made away from the house.
My husband was a cop at the time. I was very uncomfortable
about being so close to the house.

Overall, the neighborhood consisted of people who had lived
there forever, raised their kids there, and when someone moved
out, the kids moved in. The houses were mostly 2 family. There
were a couple of owners who rented both units and that was
where the problems started.

I can sympathize with you. Hopefully the police are watching
the house and something will be done soon.

Lee

On 11/03/09, Elyssa wrote:
>
> I live in a fairly nice working class neighborhood,
> probably a 7 or 8 on a scale of ten in our little part of
> L.A. Next door to me there is a nice lady who has worked
> every day for the 18 years I've lived here. Her daughter
> had kids as a teen and basically never moved out, so the
> daughter and her now teen aged sons (19 and 17) now live there.
>
> This is basically a drug dealer's paradise. It is so
> obvious that the sons and probably the mom are dealing
> drugs. Grandma just seems resigned to it. She says she is
> sick of it and plans to retire soon, sell her house, and
> move to Arizona.
>
> In the meantime, every day, all day, I hear the sound of
> young people just having a great old time. People in their
> early twenties drive up in $40K cars and spend all day in
> the driveway, just smoking dope and having a grand old time,
> while ME, I'm feeling like an idiot, sitting here working my
> tail off to pay my mortgage while all these punks just live
> off their drug deals. They play music, wash their expensive
> cars, smoke pot (which comes in through my air conditioner)
> and just laugh and fool around day in and day out.
>
> What is wrong with this picture?
>
> Please, don't advise me to call the cops. A retired
> sheriff lives two houses down from them. The daughter of
> the people next door on the other side is an LAPD officer
> who taught the DARE program in my kids' schools. The
> neighbors on the other side of me have called the police,
> only to be told that the house is "being watched." I just
> hope Grandma retires and sells before I try to sell my house.
>
> Elyssa

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