Neighbours and bins - putting one on my lawn

[FortunesFave]

Just moved house...well three weeks ago. Next door house is used as an Air B and B. Owners live miles away and it's managed by an agency. The cleaners come regularly and always put their bins on the side closet to our lawn....well one of them is actually ON our lawn. So two on their lawn and a third on ours...all in a row.

They do this I think because if they put them on the other side, they are more visible to passers by and look ugly.

Both houses have a big front lawn and there's a line of trees separating the lawns...it's quite clear whose lawn is whose.

The other side of their lawn is on a corner and visible from a street which is a popular one and I think they don't put the bins there because it's very visible to passers by and looks ugly.

AIBU to be annoyed by one of their three bins on our front lawn?

Or shall I ask the cleaner nicely not to put it there? What shall I say? Or move it myself?

Air B&B has decimated the rental market here. Houses which were previously let to families are now Air B&Bs and there are loads of people who are living in caravans on their Mum's drive and similar. It annoys the hell out of me.

I know people are entitled to do what they like with their properties but they'll kill the area. What makes it charming is that it's an old-fashioned community...or was! People enjoyed coming to have a holiday here in the caravan park or beach shacks but now every spare home is a bloody Air B&B with pissed up stag parties in them at weekends.

I will NEVER lease out my property like that. If we ever get rich, I plan to buy them all up and rent the buggers out again!

Definitely move it.

I would move it every time and tell the cleaners if I saw them.

How do they do this if there’s a line of trees between the lawns? Are they shoving the bin through the trees?

@ChessieFL

How do they do this if there’s a line of trees between the lawns? Are they shoving the bin through the trees?

No, the line of trees ends about 3 feet from the end of the lawn. They have a drive on their side of the trees and so can only fit two of their bins on their side...so they conveniently shove it onto our lawn.

DH moved it. The cars are gone and all their bins are still out...the council only pick up ordinary waste and green waste today....recycling's next week but the cleaners never know which day it is so they just put all three out!

Now they'll be out for days.

Just dump it back on their side in a conveniently inconvenient spot.

I would also tell the agency about it and that you would put the bin back up to their property if it's on your lawn again (meaning it wouldn't be emptied).

However I also like the idea of taking it for a long walk or filling it with your own rubbish. I think these are better than my original thought!

Talk to the cleaners first. Possibly then the agency (even if via Air BnB).

Do you think the owners or the agency are paying their correct amount of tax? Or there could be any planning reason to stop the property being used as a rental?

Is this the strip of land directly adjacent to the street? Isn't that owned by the council?

@FreakyPurple

Is this the strip of land directly adjacent to the street? Isn't that owned by the council?

No, the street has no paths (Australia is a bit weird like that in some areas) and it's garden or drive and then road. The garden is ours. The lawn I should say. There's no "nature strip" as they call them here.

They shouldn’t be putting their bins out for domestic collection. Airbnb is a business and should be paying business rates and paying for rubbish collection.

Just move their bins back onto their land. It's not your problem if it looks unsightly, that's for the owners of next door property to sort out. Middle of their drive or whatever place is easiest for you to move the bin to. In front of their door if you want.
If you can see name of cleaning agency on side of their company car, call to complain that their cleaner is causing problems.

Address a letter to owner of house to stop their agents doing this, if they don't stop. I've no doubt they'll be unhappy to hear cleaners are annoying their neighbours.

@sarahC40

I’ve just woken my dh up laughing at the poetry and he agrees, it’s brilliant. He loves mumsnet (but would also like me to stop chuckling).

Really?

A property in our area is let Air BnB and it is such a pain. The bin stores are constantly incorrectly used, people just throw their bags in and don’t give a shit. Use the recycling and food waste bins wrongly so the binmen won’t take them. Throw cigarette butts from the windows on the shared areas. I know it’s that property as it never happened before they stated to air BnB it. I now call the landlord every single time to get it sorted. If they want to profit out of making my life harder they can take responsibility for it!! I feel your pain OP.

@Mooselaurels

Write them a poem:

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your bin is on my land,
Get it off my land
You cunt"

I'm not very good at poetry.

Don't sell yourself short. That's the most beautiful poem I've read in a long while

@Camphillgirl

They shouldn’t be putting their bins out for domestic collection. Airbnb is a business and should be paying business rates and paying for rubbish collection.

Really? I've not hear that...surely as the house is being used only as a guest house type arrangement it's ok for them to use the council service? It's not as if it were a thirty room hotel after all!

OP, Thankyou for sharing this. I miss the bin and parking threads. It gives me hope. Yanbu and you are a very kind MNer to care about all of our emotional well-being too to trail blaze us back to more normal concerns

You are right to nip this in the bud and remove bins from your property every time as cleaners are CFs putting NDN bins on your lawn. I hope you resolve it and also if there could possibly be a diagram that would be super!!!

@Hidinginstaircupboard

OP, Thankyou for sharing this. I miss the bin and parking threads. It gives me hope. Yanbu and you are a very kind MNer to care about all of our emotional well-being too to trail blaze us back to more normal concerns

You are right to nip this in the bud and remove bins from your property every time as cleaners are CFs putting NDN bins on your lawn. I hope you resolve it and also if there could possibly be a diagram that would be super!!!

No problem at all! I did attempt a diagram but I couldn't download it...any advice for how to do it and on which website?

Here...isn't it beautifully done?

The diagram is a thing of beauty, the colour variation in the hedge /trees made me smile.

They are also very definitely CF. Dump the bin wherever suits them least!

Beautifully drawn indeed @FortunesFave.

Gotta say knowing the layout it'd incense me too. Shift the bins and leave one note to explain why then it's time for direct action using any or all of the suggested routes.

CF's

Your DH sounds like a wuss who is scared to be assertive. Of course you're not being petty, the cleaners shouldn't be doing this.

@Jobsharenightmare

Your DH sounds like a wuss who is scared to be assertive. Of course you're not being petty, the cleaners shouldn't be doing this.

He's not a wuss. I said upthread that he moved it.

He moved the bin onto their drive. There are no guests there at all now...we've had a long weekend here in Oz and now it will probably be empty till Friday when the cleaners will come and change the sheets...unless they come sooner.

@RestingPandaFace

The diagram is a thing of beauty, the colour variation in the hedge /trees made me smile.

They are also very definitely CF. Dump the bin wherever suits them least!

I'm glad you appreciated the artistry of the trees!

Could you plant another tree/smaller hedge to complete the separation line of trees all the way to the road?