Do you trust your neighbors to watch your house while on a vacation?

Well some of them I would trust, but others I would not. I still prefer to have someone I have known for years to come by and check on my home. My next door neighbors are good folks. Some of the other people can gossip a bit too much though.

When I first moved into my house (fifteen years ago) I had neighbors I could count on to watch the place if I left for a few days. Now, I don't have that luxury. The neighbors are okay, but I am not certain I'd trust them for more than one day

we have a few i can trust.. the same one always have me watch thier house when they are away

I don't speak to my neighbors too much so I don't even know if they would watch my house while I'm gone! I'll say hi now and then, but a conversation, nah. I'm pretty personal, so I stay to myself most of the time! Taripre$

We have lived here for 8 months, and I don't know a single one of my neighbors yet. I hate the city. :(

I wouldn't let someone in your neighbor watch your property while your away. I suggest this because you have not yet learned much information about your neighbor. Plus, like you said, there were a few break-ins in your community. Even though there are more police and security patrols any one you trust by mistake can steal from you. And the bad part is the police or you wouldn't know who stole it. Instead, you should let one of your relatives look after your property.I hope my advise helps!

i can trust a few of my neighbours that i have good relationship with... not all though... i live in a complex of 8 units of townhouses and one of my neighbour is the body corporate representative... so we can always count on him to look after my house when i go on a vacation... take care and have a nice day...

Hello! My mother has a lot of friends in the neighbourhood. Although my mother never trust anybody 100%, she really do trust our neighbours, if they have to watch our house or if they have to enter here to feed the dog. She established this great kind of friendship with everybody, in which there is respect nad happiness together. Respectfully, Munhozmib.

My old neighbor here I would trust with my house while I was away. They also trusted me to keep an eye on theirs too. But the moved out early this summer. I don't have a new neighbor yet but I do miss my old neighbor. Even though we were not buddies, we had respect for each other and were both quiet and respected each others space. My neighbor that moved in on the other side I would not trust. He moved in this summer and is a pot head. So I wish he moves. I can smell it while I am outside with my children. Nasty.

I did trust my neighbor, she was the one that I mentioned in the last post of yours about sharing food.. I say that I DID, but she moved and now I have new neighbors, who I don't know.. These "new" neighbors are the ones who I am sure called the fire department on us for what they called "illegal burning".. We live in the county and can burn brush legally when we follow proper procedure, which we did.. We have to have a burn permit and follow a set of safety rules to safely burn which we did and have done for the last ten years, but after being in their house for about 2-3 days only, they called and reported us for Illegal burning.. We were legal and were told by the fire department that we were legal and doing nothing wrong, but we still received a $1,200.00 bill from Rural Metro for this 5 minute visit from them to tell us that we were doing nothing wrong, that everything was ok.. Now I have neighbors who I don't believe that I will ever be able to like nor trust and I don't like it at all.. I also have another neighbor on the other side of me who I would trust to keep an eye out on things but she is in her 80's and all she could do it call the police, which she would..

Our neighbors is the first people we call in times of trouble inside our community. I trust them too and we always ask our neighbor to watch our house while we are out of town or at the office or every where. We have the good relationship with them we often talk about the improvement we can do to help others. Having a good relationship with them is simply following to Christ order. "Love thy neighbor."

I dont think my neighbours would steel from us but they are so bloody nosy !!The other day we found a woman sitting in a tree watching us !(adult woman or so one would think!) Its terrible and its not like we made a noise or did something funny to prevoke her ,we just hasd a barbeque with friends how embarrasing !)

Our neighbors on one side are extremely nice and trustworthy. As a matter of fact, one of them is my doctor. My mother has multiple times given them a key, had them watch our house, pick up our mail, etc. They also often bring back our dog when he runs out (which is a lot). However, on the other side of our home is a older woman who has often given us reasons to question her sanity. There is no possible way that we would be okay with her watching our house.

I do trust my neighbour. Trust is a subjective matter and we can't build it just in a few days. It needs a lot of time and a lot of efforts.

We've only lived in our house for two years, but last summer we trusted our neighbors to watch our property while we took a two week vacation. It was either that, leave it without anyone watching it, or cancel or trip. Even though we haven't known them long, we felt they'd do a good job, and they did. Usually you can tell who will be trustworthy and who won't. Living in small-town, rural Iowa like we do doesn't hurt, either.

Yes I do have a neighbour that I can put my trust in, he's an elderly and retired and can be seen as a person that can be trusted. On my last year holiday I left my spare house keys with him and ask him to take all letters that addressed to me and my wife to be kept with him or put inside my house. He did it very well and I would ask his favor for our upcoming 1 month holiday.

No, I'll ask one of my relatives to look over the house when I'm gone but not my neighbors. I'm not even close with my neighbors. I only know their names and address and that's about it. Haha. We have a pretty big extended family, so anytime someone needs his or her house watched, there's someone in the family who can do it.

Absolutely. I don't even have to ask them to watch the house. They do it on a daily basis when I'm home, I know they'll do it when I'm away. My block is full of older people who have nothing better to do than call the village police for every little thing (which is both an annoyance and a blessing). I know my home is safe. I had my car parked in front of my house, I had just gotten it. The police knocked on my door and asked if I knew who's car that was parked in front of my house. I said it was mine. The police responded with "Well we received a complaint that the vehicle was abandoned because it hasn't moved in a week." I replied that I didn't have the plates or the title transfer recorded yet so I didn't want to drive it around until the paperwork was in order. He told me to park it in the garage or just move it from one side of the street to the other every other day so it wouldn't spook the neighbors. Okay, so now I park it in the garage.

Yes. I trust a lot of my neighbours, we are all very close around here. We look after each others homes while on vacation. I let my neighbour have my house keys and my alarm number. If my alarm was to go off accidently at least it would be turned of quickly without annoying the whole neighbour hood. I would also collect my neighbours mail, from the floor and put it out of view. I put out the garbage, water their plants and if it is hot 'their grass'. Yes, we certainly look out for each other. Thats what good neighbours do.

i trust my neighbor they r more like our family. our neighborhood is more than hundred years old. everybody know each other very well. We help each other, celebrate together and have a great time.