Suburban slow burn

On Friday, my wife and I put our house on the market. Several factors have prompted us to attempt to sell our house. With two kids growing up fast, it has become more and more apparent that we will need more than the 1360 square feet and three bedrooms/two bathrooms that we currently enjoy. Also, we have grown tired of the street on which we live. It isn't one of the main thoroughfares like that on which other people live - and I don't know how they do it - but it is a neighborhood street that many use as a cut-through to get from one side of the neighborhood to the other. Then there are our neighbors. Back in September, right when my wife and I began to sorta kinda talk about maybe putting our house on the market, this vehicle joined the four other vehicles already permanently parked in our neighbor's driveway:

Notice that my neighbors parked it as far away from their house as possible, and as close to our house as possible; that is my garage door on the extreme left of the photo. It's bad enough that there is an RV practically parked in our driveway, but to make matters worse, our neighbors' loud obnoxious mother/mother-in-law is living in the RV. We have figured out that she sleeps in it at night, however, they are sneaky enough about it that we most likely would never be able to prove to County code enforcement that she is sleeping there. Not that County code enforcement would do anything about it anyway. From what I understand, they don't have the time or manpower to worry about "small" stuff like that. Believe me, it's not small when YOU are the one living next to the Clampetts. And why can't any of those four other cars fit in our neighbors' garage? That's because they have one of those loud obnoxious speed boats that you cannot even use for pleasure boating. It only has one speed - insanely fast - and only for short distances.

The problem with a menagerie of vehicles like this next door, is that we could conceivably have trouble selling our house because of it. Were I in search of a new house and I saw a mess like that next door, I know that I would be hesitant to give the house a chance. That is the most frustrating part about all this is knowing that the biggest negative mark against our house is something that is not even on our property, and therefore, we have no control over it.

Sorry if I offend anyone reading this to whom the following statement applies, but if you have a big RV parked in your driveway, then shame on you! Try giving a thought about your neighbors and how it might affect their lives. It may be your property, but when houses are built right next to each other, your property is no longer an island. Either park it in your yard or rent a storage space for it.

Good Day to You, Sir