“Enough to roust ‘em with automatic weapons?”
No, and I believe the city will pay. These things are a problem despite neighborhood covenants, which they agree to abide by when they buy or rent the house, or city ordances. We’ve had a problem in our neighborhood of several hundred houses with one neighbor who has had trouble keeping up his 3 pit bulls who ended up killing a neighbors dog who was in her fenced in back yard and and continued to work on other people’s cars in his front yard on a daily basis. His house was finally re-possessed. I’m glad to see him gone, his cars had the only obama stickers in the neighborhood. This is a desirable neighborhood and despite some temporary slow down of sales and loss of equity a few years ago, what few houses that are offered, sell quickly for good prices.
This property is rural so there isn’t a neighborhood association. The closest neighbors are some cows and a junk yard across the road, a small airfield with a dirt runway behind them and a few houses and trailers along the road. They were targeted for nothing but being hippies.
“These things are a problem despite neighborhood covenants”
Covenants can be enforced only through civil lawsuits. Government does not enforce covenants.