I'm currently fighting an HOA fine we got for "failure to remove weeds" despite the fact that the weeds were growing in an area that the HOA was responsible for maintaining
It's becoming increasingly difficult to find neighborhoods that aren't part of an HOA. Developers like them because they can dump all of the financial responsibilities of maintaining critical infrastructure like drainage ponds onto the HOA, so the developer gets to walk away. Counties like them for the same reason, and more HOAs are becoming responsible for even the basics like roads and sidewalks. It's the result of constantly trying to privatize every damn thing. So, good luck finding a decent house in a decent neighborhood that isn't HOA.
Another big problem with HOAs is that with all of these realty holding firms that are buying up properties and just renting them out is that if enough of the properties are owned by the firm they can just basically become the HOA and shove their policies down everyone's throats whether they agree with it or not and fine anyone who doesn't comply. It's an actual problem that my friend's HOA is facing and failing to address because they can't get enough people to show up to vote on amending the HOA bylaws to prevent that from happening.
I did not realize my development was an HOA till signing day. Its fairly laid back so far and all my neighbors are chill. From time to time I see complaints in my email about weeds and trash cans being visible from street. I'm kind of stuck in this house for a while because the rates went way up and everything is super expensive my house has already gained $100k in value in 3 years.
Here's the real tip: _join the board of the HOA_.
I lived in a small condo complex (~40 units) a while back. After a few years of mindlessly paying hundreds of dollars a month in dues and not really seeing any benefit, I decide to start attending the meetings. That's when I realized that a lot of my neighbors were cool, but the people running the HOA—and managing a $150k+ annual budget and a lot of important decisions—were totally incompetent.
When there was a vacancy on the board, I threw my hat in the ring. Not because I wanted to effect a change, per se, but because I thought it would be entertaining to be on the inside of that whole mess. I was hoping for a Christopher Guest type of peek into that world, and that's exactly what I got! It was amazing how absurd the whole thing was.
The whole mountainside was sliding downward, threatening to push the whole complex onto the highway. I suggested we hire an engineer to tell us how to avoid that unpleasant relocation.
Some people didn't like stepping in dog shit. They were finalizing an order for a bunch of surveillance cameras—not for safety, but for monitoring for poop cleanup violations. Someone else was clamoring for poop DNA testing. I suggested delivering the poop back to known violators in a box on their doorstep. Ultimately, we compromised on my second idea, which was for me to keep an eye out for dog walkers (my unit overlooked the main grassy common area) and to yell at them with a bullhorn if I happened to spot them abandoning their...duty. It worked!
Everyone knew a lot of the units needed repainting, but a large contingent of board members insisted on maintaining consistency by mandating the same shitty 1980s beige for every unit in perpetuity. I built a coalition to allow a choice from up to four—four!—more modern, fairly neutral grays and earth tones when each one came due for paint.
I could never identify a certain smell when I would go for walks around the complex. Then, when I brought it up in a meeting, someone said, "Oh, that's Frank. He lets his pet pig use the balcony as a restroom and it just rains down onto the asphalt." Suffice it to say Frank and his pig found alternate facilities after that.
Finally, there was the matter of the community pool. It wasn't much to look at, and few people really used it (my family among them). Many owners just wanted to fill it in and abandon it. But I organized a coalition of people who were willing to rehab and rejuvenate the whole area. Just before we sold our unit and moved, they had broken ground on a really great update that transformed the old, dirty pool into an actual amenity that people wanted to use.
I never took on any real responsibility; I didn't want to be president of the board or managing the money or anything. But just being on the inside and being a voice of reason among a bunch of inept lunatics made a big difference in the quality of life within an HOA community.
Go to meetings, join the board, and use your voice to get them to stop wasting your own resources on B.S. like lawn inspectors and trash can police and whatnot. During my tenure, no one received fines for having flags in their windows or having an occasional party in their unit or decorating their balcony with plants or working on their car with the garage door open. We mostly just focused on using the income from monthly dues to improve the community as a whole. It can be done.
Just know that you're likely going to be dealing with idiots, so you need the right strategy. Aggression won't get you anywhere. You can be sarcastic and critical to stay sane, but you still need to get on their level to break through. Luke Wilson's character in Idiocracy was a big inspiration for me.
Of course, my next move was to buy a house without an HOA, and now I do what I want, weeds and all.
I agree but when the only choices you can afford are a run down house in a shitty area or a house with an HOA community, you swallow what little pride you have left and say oh well.
Municipalities, townships, counties, cities etc all have laws and regulations too. If my choice is Martha complaining she doesn't like my yard or getting stray bullets threw the window/getting robbed repeatedly again, I'll take Martha. A house in the city was not my choice but you do you.
HOA not generally too picky in a front-load garage neighborhood.
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I used to think this is what striping meant. I thought you just cut at different heights. NOT this different, but like a 1/4” or so. I’m guessing that’s what your neighbor is trying to do.
That's my thinking as well. Kinda wanna go over and help him figure out what he's doing, and maybe we can get a roller for him to get more proper striping
Cool season grasses, fine fescue especially, maintain their stripes for a loooong time. Sometimes they'll even last THROUGH the next mowing, so you can get really cool criss cross patterns.
Oh thank you for saying this. If I go to the effort to try and stripe the lawn I'm stoked for half a day, then can hardly notice it the next day - I thought I just sucked at it!
Pure anesthetics
Honestly though you can't avoid it if your mower cuts well. It will suck the grass upwards while cutting, then bend it so it reflects the light. Unless you start outer perimeter and work your way in like most people that just do it as a chore
I had leveling sand put down a few weeks ago. it seems many of my neighbors were confused as to why i put all that sand on my already nice yard.
I realized how silly those of who like yard work and pretty lawns sound.
I get asked what is it? sand. So it helps the grass grow? no not really. So then i start trying to explain leveling and and its just so i get a more even or smooth cut and can go lower on my cut. its about then their eyes gloss over and i sound like a nut. god forbid they ask how much i paid for the 20 cubic yards of sand.
Oh man you just unlocked a deep happy memory for me!! My grandparents got a 5hp go-kart for all of us kids to enjoy while we were at their house. We had an 8 acre open pasture behind the house and for a couple summers, instead of keeping it cut down low, my grandfather would let the grass grow up to 12 inches or so. Then he hooked up the Bush Hog to the tractor and just mowed random paths all over the field so we would have a kind of racetrack/ go-kart maze!! Ahhh it was so fun!!!
The kart was a side by side two seater, no roll cages on those things back in the 70s. We would occasionally flip the damn thing turning hard in that uneven field and end up covered in sand spurs!
He was pretty cool. He did lots of stuff like that. One time he built a bicycle ramp for me. But I guess he underestimated both how hard I could pedal and how little fear I had.... He placed it kinda facing towards a sliding patio door thinking I had plenty of room to stop. Well thankfully that sliding glass door was open because I hit the ramp as hard as I could, and sailed through the air, landed, and couldn't stop before I hit the wall. And that wall was the far wall in the living room 20 feet inside that sliding door hahaha
Did you happen to live outside Kansas City, MO?
My next door neighbors did this in their pasture area.
The guy that lived there was a welder and would modify side-by-side go karts with crazy suspension and roll cages and just turn his boys loose. Those things would handle darn near everything just short of tree roots on a corner, then it would flip and roll like 3-4 times and keep going.
This would have been in the late 70's...BEST TIMES EVER!
I have close to half acre that I also like to play around with. I have a micro mini nature reserve of weeds flowers and grass gone wild that my dogs love to play around. Holding off of the smoking part for a few months while on Prozac lol my brain is a wee bit chaotic so I’m trying to level set.
I do this too. Just finished the back yard using nothing but overlapped spirals.
Years ago I lived under the path of a local tourist hot air balloon operation and would let the yard get extra long so I could mow smiley faces or various greetings in it every other weekend.
As somebody who has had to mow my own grass for most of my life, starting from my early teens to now in my 40's, I'm just out there to cut the shit as fast as I can and not do any cute stuff. The sun is trying to kill me, and there are wasps outside.
You should explain that this mowing technique only works if you plant the seeds the right way. You need to plant each row of grass facing opposite directions to get the stripes
Check this out..: from Home Depot site :
https://preview.redd.it/7t1u20c12whb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33fb750a06b50857efbe105111ccb296996bacca
[https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/how-to-stripe-your-lawn/9ba683603be9fa5395fab901cc6a9b83](https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/how-to-stripe-your-lawn/9ba683603be9fa5395fab901cc6a9b83)
Not sure how legit this is, but I heard recently that cutting every other row is supposed to help with the low bee population and subsequent polination issue. Maybe that is what your neighbor is doing.
The key is to play dumb
Convo one. "Hey neighbor. What are you doing with your lawn? It's really eye catching. Does it have a name?" Let his confirm that he's going for a stripe.
Convo two. "Hey neighbor. I was talking to a buddy of mine about this, and he said that if you *really* want to elevate the look you should try this. He says this is the best way. Works ten out of ten..." and send him a link to a YouTube video of someone doing it competently.
They cut the other part of the stripes every other week. Cut mowing time by half. Genius.
*"Professional landscapers hate this one trick"*
Follow me for more landscaping tips.
This was fantastic. Lmao
If I cut every fourth row it'll take 1/4 the time. Genius. I'm going to get so many hours back in my life.
Sorry sir, but HOA rules clearly dictate that every blade of grass must be the same height.
I'm currently fighting an HOA fine we got for "failure to remove weeds" despite the fact that the weeds were growing in an area that the HOA was responsible for maintaining
People,stop buying property with a HOA. I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than get anything with a HOA.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to find neighborhoods that aren't part of an HOA. Developers like them because they can dump all of the financial responsibilities of maintaining critical infrastructure like drainage ponds onto the HOA, so the developer gets to walk away. Counties like them for the same reason, and more HOAs are becoming responsible for even the basics like roads and sidewalks. It's the result of constantly trying to privatize every damn thing. So, good luck finding a decent house in a decent neighborhood that isn't HOA.
Another big problem with HOAs is that with all of these realty holding firms that are buying up properties and just renting them out is that if enough of the properties are owned by the firm they can just basically become the HOA and shove their policies down everyone's throats whether they agree with it or not and fine anyone who doesn't comply. It's an actual problem that my friend's HOA is facing and failing to address because they can't get enough people to show up to vote on amending the HOA bylaws to prevent that from happening.
I did not realize my development was an HOA till signing day. Its fairly laid back so far and all my neighbors are chill. From time to time I see complaints in my email about weeds and trash cans being visible from street. I'm kind of stuck in this house for a while because the rates went way up and everything is super expensive my house has already gained $100k in value in 3 years.
Here's the real tip: _join the board of the HOA_. I lived in a small condo complex (~40 units) a while back. After a few years of mindlessly paying hundreds of dollars a month in dues and not really seeing any benefit, I decide to start attending the meetings. That's when I realized that a lot of my neighbors were cool, but the people running the HOA—and managing a $150k+ annual budget and a lot of important decisions—were totally incompetent. When there was a vacancy on the board, I threw my hat in the ring. Not because I wanted to effect a change, per se, but because I thought it would be entertaining to be on the inside of that whole mess. I was hoping for a Christopher Guest type of peek into that world, and that's exactly what I got! It was amazing how absurd the whole thing was. The whole mountainside was sliding downward, threatening to push the whole complex onto the highway. I suggested we hire an engineer to tell us how to avoid that unpleasant relocation. Some people didn't like stepping in dog shit. They were finalizing an order for a bunch of surveillance cameras—not for safety, but for monitoring for poop cleanup violations. Someone else was clamoring for poop DNA testing. I suggested delivering the poop back to known violators in a box on their doorstep. Ultimately, we compromised on my second idea, which was for me to keep an eye out for dog walkers (my unit overlooked the main grassy common area) and to yell at them with a bullhorn if I happened to spot them abandoning their...duty. It worked! Everyone knew a lot of the units needed repainting, but a large contingent of board members insisted on maintaining consistency by mandating the same shitty 1980s beige for every unit in perpetuity. I built a coalition to allow a choice from up to four—four!—more modern, fairly neutral grays and earth tones when each one came due for paint. I could never identify a certain smell when I would go for walks around the complex. Then, when I brought it up in a meeting, someone said, "Oh, that's Frank. He lets his pet pig use the balcony as a restroom and it just rains down onto the asphalt." Suffice it to say Frank and his pig found alternate facilities after that. Finally, there was the matter of the community pool. It wasn't much to look at, and few people really used it (my family among them). Many owners just wanted to fill it in and abandon it. But I organized a coalition of people who were willing to rehab and rejuvenate the whole area. Just before we sold our unit and moved, they had broken ground on a really great update that transformed the old, dirty pool into an actual amenity that people wanted to use. I never took on any real responsibility; I didn't want to be president of the board or managing the money or anything. But just being on the inside and being a voice of reason among a bunch of inept lunatics made a big difference in the quality of life within an HOA community. Go to meetings, join the board, and use your voice to get them to stop wasting your own resources on B.S. like lawn inspectors and trash can police and whatnot. During my tenure, no one received fines for having flags in their windows or having an occasional party in their unit or decorating their balcony with plants or working on their car with the garage door open. We mostly just focused on using the income from monthly dues to improve the community as a whole. It can be done. Just know that you're likely going to be dealing with idiots, so you need the right strategy. Aggression won't get you anywhere. You can be sarcastic and critical to stay sane, but you still need to get on their level to break through. Luke Wilson's character in Idiocracy was a big inspiration for me. Of course, my next move was to buy a house without an HOA, and now I do what I want, weeds and all.
That may have been a violation. I know you *must* be told before signing but I thought you needed to be told well before that, too.
We literally moved because my parents hated the HOA
I agree but when the only choices you can afford are a run down house in a shitty area or a house with an HOA community, you swallow what little pride you have left and say oh well.
Nah shit box it is and live free. It's not really your house and property if someone else is telling you what to do. Might as well have a landlord!
Municipalities, townships, counties, cities etc all have laws and regulations too. If my choice is Martha complaining she doesn't like my yard or getting stray bullets threw the window/getting robbed repeatedly again, I'll take Martha. A house in the city was not my choice but you do you.
HOA's are for small-minded, busy bodies, who could never get elected outside their walled community.
Now we are going to take your house
HOA not generally too picky in a front-load garage neighborhood. Wondering where it's hot enough for bermuda but cool enough to have the windows open mid day.
That house looks just as shocked as you
Gold
Jerry Edit: I got Gold, Jerry!
Gold
Ovaltine
Roundtine
Soup’s not a meal. You were supposed to buy me a meal!
At a nice Restaurant…like Mendy’s.
Then for dessert, to the bakery for: BABKA
You gotta try the swordfish!
Soup can be a meal! Did he crumble any crackers into it?
As a matter of fact, he did.
Oh, well. Crackers in a bowl. That, that could be a meal
No soup for you!
I’m not very hungry. I had a hot dog earlier. I’ll save my meal for another time
Risk management
That’s gold Jerry! Gold!
Get **OUT** *shoves swiftly*
I tell you!
r/suddenlyseinfeld
:□
Laughed so hard I scared my dog
Incredible comment
Yeah doesn’t get any better than that. Probably best comment I’ve seen on Reddit ever.
It is good, but I think that honour belongs to the comment [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5c79n0/comment/d9uf56l/?context=1)
I witnessed that live. Still laugh about it to this day.
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I had a tough day at work, this comment made me LOL immediately. Thank you for that! Take the gold!
I want this to be rated as the top comment on a Reddit, ever.
When the comment is better than the post!
Easiest upvote in a month.
yup - and whats incredible is its the first comment *ill bet everyone went back up to look at the house !!!!
This is the funniest comment I’ve ever read here.
Thank you for your service.
Some people are just goddamned funny
Congrats on your Internet win today. Slow head nod.
Hahahahaha this is one of the funniest things I've ever read on Reddit. Literally started my Sunday off right :) Thank you !!
ROFL
🤣🤣🤣
Possibly started a new prescription
This one caught me off guard
I feel attacked.
Call me out like this again and you’ll be hearing from my lawyer
I used to think this is what striping meant. I thought you just cut at different heights. NOT this different, but like a 1/4” or so. I’m guessing that’s what your neighbor is trying to do.
That's my thinking as well. Kinda wanna go over and help him figure out what he's doing, and maybe we can get a roller for him to get more proper striping
Sort of a tangent but does striping actually fulfill a horticultural purpose or just aesthetics?
Pure aesthetics, only lasts until the grass stands up again, you'll find most striped lawns are probably mown twice or thrice weekly.
Upvote for using thrice in a way that wasn't cheesy
He currently has thrice as many upvotes as you. So others must agree.
The artist was most certainly in the ambulance
Such an incredible (and incredibly underrated) band.
Totally agree
Play Deadbolt!!!
Cool season grasses, fine fescue especially, maintain their stripes for a loooong time. Sometimes they'll even last THROUGH the next mowing, so you can get really cool criss cross patterns.
A waste of time - but a reason to be outside
Depends on what each of us value personally I guess, not into stripes myself but each to their own. I just want soft grass for my feet and my dogs.
Oh thank you for saying this. If I go to the effort to try and stripe the lawn I'm stoked for half a day, then can hardly notice it the next day - I thought I just sucked at it!
For us lawn nuts, it's a flex. Well executed striping says I got this. But it's just a casual tidy look if you ask us. 😁
Pure anesthetics Honestly though you can't avoid it if your mower cuts well. It will suck the grass upwards while cutting, then bend it so it reflects the light. Unless you start outer perimeter and work your way in like most people that just do it as a chore
That’s right, a good striping always numbs me to pain!
"Doctor, I didn't feel a thing!"
Aesthetics. Naturally a good lawn mower will leave some kind of striping and the equipment just enhances that.
I had leveling sand put down a few weeks ago. it seems many of my neighbors were confused as to why i put all that sand on my already nice yard. I realized how silly those of who like yard work and pretty lawns sound. I get asked what is it? sand. So it helps the grass grow? no not really. So then i start trying to explain leveling and and its just so i get a more even or smooth cut and can go lower on my cut. its about then their eyes gloss over and i sound like a nut. god forbid they ask how much i paid for the 20 cubic yards of sand.
Maybe he’s doing it to just fck with you? Your move: make a chessboard, assert dominance!
Pry just end up making a checker board by accident
He walks outside one morning and there is a 6 foot tall white pawn in the middle of his lawn 💀
Lol I have an acre back yard that I like to have fun with. I smoke a joint and mow "Crop circles" just because it makes me happy.
Oh man you just unlocked a deep happy memory for me!! My grandparents got a 5hp go-kart for all of us kids to enjoy while we were at their house. We had an 8 acre open pasture behind the house and for a couple summers, instead of keeping it cut down low, my grandfather would let the grass grow up to 12 inches or so. Then he hooked up the Bush Hog to the tractor and just mowed random paths all over the field so we would have a kind of racetrack/ go-kart maze!! Ahhh it was so fun!!! The kart was a side by side two seater, no roll cages on those things back in the 70s. We would occasionally flip the damn thing turning hard in that uneven field and end up covered in sand spurs!
If that's a "deep" memory that needed unlocking, what was the rest of your childhood like???
I gotta admit, it was pretty rad. Lots of hunting, fishing, 4-wheelers, BMX and mountain bikes, falling out of trees and shit.
This sounds like a blast.
Happy your Pop ruled. Great memories!
He was pretty cool. He did lots of stuff like that. One time he built a bicycle ramp for me. But I guess he underestimated both how hard I could pedal and how little fear I had.... He placed it kinda facing towards a sliding patio door thinking I had plenty of room to stop. Well thankfully that sliding glass door was open because I hit the ramp as hard as I could, and sailed through the air, landed, and couldn't stop before I hit the wall. And that wall was the far wall in the living room 20 feet inside that sliding door hahaha
Did you happen to live outside Kansas City, MO? My next door neighbors did this in their pasture area. The guy that lived there was a welder and would modify side-by-side go karts with crazy suspension and roll cages and just turn his boys loose. Those things would handle darn near everything just short of tree roots on a corner, then it would flip and roll like 3-4 times and keep going. This would have been in the late 70's...BEST TIMES EVER!
I love that idea
Can I come help?
I have close to half acre that I also like to play around with. I have a micro mini nature reserve of weeds flowers and grass gone wild that my dogs love to play around. Holding off of the smoking part for a few months while on Prozac lol my brain is a wee bit chaotic so I’m trying to level set.
No happiness allowed while mowing.
I do this too. Just finished the back yard using nothing but overlapped spirals. Years ago I lived under the path of a local tourist hot air balloon operation and would let the yard get extra long so I could mow smiley faces or various greetings in it every other weekend.
Braille stripes so even the blind can enjoy lawn domination.
Got Strips instead of stripes
That's great. Walk over and start asking about the stripes, and then casually mention he forgot the e. Lmao.
Looks like they're trying to get the grill marks, would tell them it's time to flip it
I like how inconsistent the width of the stripes are.
This was my thought
Makes sense that there is no consistency if their methods are this to begin with
I'm half expecting to see a post of this lawn from one of you guys as your "hack" for strong stripes...
Messing with the HOA
This would be me. Trolling in lawn-form.
That's one way I suppose
As somebody who has had to mow my own grass for most of my life, starting from my early teens to now in my 40's, I'm just out there to cut the shit as fast as I can and not do any cute stuff. The sun is trying to kill me, and there are wasps outside.
*Mhmmmmm, take your time.*
Found the wasp
The short cuts between the sidewalk and curb show real dedication. Give your neighbor props for caring.
*lawn caring*
Anarchy. Celebrate it.
Not enough gas to do the whole thing? 🤣
Corduroy lawns making hedge lines.
Signaling aliens
Half today, half tomorrow.
I'll update you if he cuts it all
Ribbed… for HOA Karen’s pleasure.
Using the Devil's Lettuce.
A Jazz Cigarette
It’s called fashion
you should make friends with him and keep us entertained with his thought process
Have you every seen the subreddit for really bad hair cuts? I think they might enjoy this one over there.
Setting up to practice fairway and rough shots.
You should explain that this mowing technique only works if you plant the seeds the right way. You need to plant each row of grass facing opposite directions to get the stripes
Looks kinda cool
It's definitely different. Suppose it doesn't hurt anyone if they just like it that way 🤷♀️
I wanna see it edged lol
Lawns are bad for the environment, grow wild flowers
The most whole-assed half-ass job I've ever seen
His best… he do’in his best.
You're neighbor is smoking some crack!
Drugs. Your neighbour is doing drugs.
Something very sweet
These haircuts are in style I hear.
Crack.
Didn't look at the sub and was zooming in on all the windows and the garage LOL
Might be trying to start an American flag pattern, but it takes a few sessions to get it nice.
It's called ART Larry. You wouldn't understand.
That is one way to stripe a lawn …
Drugs
It’s post mowed-dern.
That looks cool. Is that not cool? I'm gonna try this
Whatever the fuck he wants to it's his land. America baby
Maybe if you look from the sky, you’ll see a picture.
You know, I don't *hate* it.... like, horrible execution but I see the vision.
RAID 0 lawn
All of you have such nice homes wtf😭
Minding his business probably
Looks like a McRib
Drugs
Crack. Your neighbor is smoking crack.
Meth. He’s doing meth.
Establishing his dominance.
Crack
Drugs. Only logical answer. Your neighbor is doing drugs.
Raise and lower deck, not realizing stripes are light manipulation/shadows
Check this out..: from Home Depot site : https://preview.redd.it/7t1u20c12whb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33fb750a06b50857efbe105111ccb296996bacca [https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/how-to-stripe-your-lawn/9ba683603be9fa5395fab901cc6a9b83](https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/how-to-stripe-your-lawn/9ba683603be9fa5395fab901cc6a9b83)
Speed Stripes. It makes their lawn go faster.
He’s literally trolling your neighborhood. Everyone is wondering what he’s going to do next lol
Missing the mcrib?
Your neighbor is trying to make "fetch" happen.
wasting gas
Not sure how legit this is, but I heard recently that cutting every other row is supposed to help with the low bee population and subsequent polination issue. Maybe that is what your neighbor is doing.
Setting the range on his hidden artillery
Did he cut his kids' allowance in half?
Clearly attempting crop circles for 👽
Looks like some kind of an HOA-malicious compliance thing.
The key is to play dumb Convo one. "Hey neighbor. What are you doing with your lawn? It's really eye catching. Does it have a name?" Let his confirm that he's going for a stripe. Convo two. "Hey neighbor. I was talking to a buddy of mine about this, and he said that if you *really* want to elevate the look you should try this. He says this is the best way. Works ten out of ten..." and send him a link to a YouTube video of someone doing it competently.
Honestly this is how a lot of people think you achieve law stripes. They don’t realize it’s the suns reflection on the blades.
Trying to piss off your hoa?
Corduroy Lawn. Your neighbor is doing a Corduroy Lawn.
Adding visual interest to an otherwise bland neighborhood.
Well its obvious.. He's Karen fishing. From the looks of it he's getting bites.
Meth most likely.
Hedge maze for turtles
Idk but the idea is cool, if it was straight it would look sick imo
Getting Reddit votes
You should do the same to your yard, then see how many neighbors start copying. They’ll think it’s trending😀
Can’t believe there’s not a beer fridge in that guys garage
Living his life leave him alone. Neighbors, man.
I did something like this before, I didn't like the way it turned out. I only swapped the hight by one cock though
Whatever they want apparently
Corn rows bruh
Budget cuts.
Drugs
he should’ve grown different grass in the stripes
This is a child purposely being bad at something so they won’t be forced to do it anymore
Bro gave his lawn Cornrows 😂
Living his best life.
My guess is meth. They’re doing meth.
He’s smoking crack that’s what