u/Nunya13

I’m at a loss here. Every single weekend since at least May a neighbor has been having a yard sale. He’s always got new items to sell and plenty of them. I noticed he now has a truck in front of his house with a business name that hauls junk. I think he’s taking the stuff he hauls and selling it.

He’s been doing this every Friday - Saturday for about eight to ten weeks.

He now has tents up for shade and display shelves. He’s literally turning his driveway and garage into a store front. There is now a lot more traffic on our street during these days. I saw one of the customers blocking a neighbor's driveway this morning.

I noticed the neighbor directly across the street from them now parks their car in the street sometimes. I think it’s to stop people from taking up all the spaces in front of their house in case they have visitors (so visitors can park in their driveway maybe? Total speculation).

I also noticed the neighbor having the yard sale parked their car in front of that neighbors house so they could have the yard sale. The yard-sale neighbor has five cars at their property so they move their cars in front of other neighbors houses but also move their other cars onto the street in front of their house so the customers have to park in front of other neighbors' houses

This doesn’t seem kosher. I don’t think our neighborhood should have to deal with this all summer and possible fall.

Is there anything that can be done? I don’t want to approach the neighbor unless I know i have a leg to stand on other than extreme annoyance. Im not trying to start drama unnecessarily.

(Ignore, can see comments now) Edit to add: I don’t know why I can’t see anyone’s comments in this post in the app (so I can’t respond to them directly). I can only see the previews in my notifications. After looking it up based on what people are saying, yeah, he’s considered as running a business and should also be charging sales tax.

But sales tax compliance isn’t my problem, it’s is he even allowed to have a business where customers are coming and going all day for multiple days a week? I’m not gonna lie, I’d rather our neighborhood not have to deal with this regardless of compliance with sales tax rules.

I’ll have to figure out who to call to confirm the rules.

Edit 2 (still can’t see comments so can’t reply): some said to mind my own business. My street is now overrun with traffic every weekend. My neighbor has people blocking their driveway. Someone is likely violating tax and zoning rules. This ain’t a case of someone just going about their business without affecting anyone else. If it was, then I’d acknowledge I’m just annoyed by it and that it’s a me problem.

Edit 3: this says you can’t run a business that has customers coming and going. Even music lessons business have a limit in traffic they create. Special regulations for home-based businesses. I guess it’s just a matter of I want to make a thing of it. What would YOU do?

Camping seems completely effed now. We just like to go camping a couple times in the Summer, but it seems like to get a spot anymore, we’d have to leave *at least* on a Wednesday. We’ve left on Thursdays before and everything is already taken!

We plan on going camping the weekend after the Fourth but rather than being excited, I have anxiety about it.

I remember the days where we could go camping spur of the moment on a Friday after work. Maybe we wouldn't get the best spot, but we’d get a spot. Now there’s just nothing! COVID and the population boom seems to have screwed it all up.

I’m not talking developed campgrounds. I’m just talking about the private spots off the side of the road by the river with a fire ring. Nothing fancy.

It’s to the point I’m afraid to go camping because I don’t think we'll find a single place to camp (this happened to us twice).

Admittedly, we’re only familiar with a few areas to camp that are the ones everyone knows (Arrowrock, Stanley, Crouch, Silver Creek, Atlanta). I hate camping in the developed campgrounds. No part of that says getting away from people. You’re actually much closer to people than behind the walls of your own home. Listening to everyone’s kids screaming, dogs barking, ATVs revving, music blaring, etc.

We just like to drive along the road and pick a spot with shade that’s close to the river (for cooling off and to lull us to sleep).

Is there somewhere we should be going that isn’t these places? I imagine I know about them because everyone knows about them.