Put a note on her door detailing your prices for house security and chauffeuring. Make sure you are clear you expect a gratuity on top regardless of the quality of service.
I am on good terms with my neighbor, and I know that her husband is a crew member on a cargo ship on an ocean somewhere. She could need to fly to meet him, so I would do what she asks. If she asks me to take care of her three kids, it's a "no."
No. What if something goes wrong in the house or it's burgled or she says something is missing? I wouldn't want to risk it. When you go in there too she may of left further notes.
yeah that note scared me i thought someone broke into my apartment. So she really pissed me off. Thats why i threew her note elsewhere
There are no really good answers to such a problem if you live alone without a real support system. We will all need someone's help at some time or another. You can get sick and end up in the hosiptal for days, or even months. Or you could go out of town for a few days or a week. It would be wonderful if you could rely on at least on person nearby who would check on your stuff once in a while. Sometimes you can stop your mail. Depending on where you live you may need someone to put out your trash, do yardwork, turn on and off your lights, etc. Otherwise, a burglar might assume that the place is deserted and rob it.
Depending on where you live, you might be able to ask the cops to do drivebys to see if there is any obvious damage.
Right now it might be easy to dismiss a neighbor's request for assistance but if you live long enough you will face those very real problems yourself and need some kind help.
@Diotrephes thats what family is for. Stop putting blind faith in strangers. Ppl like you often become victims to predators because ur too trusting, naive and desperate.this is why ppl like u end up unalived in ditches. Learn to love yourself
@Queendragonfly So the neighbors door I put the note on took her to the airport 🤣😭. they regret helping her call me and tell me she was rude by not didn't even offering gas money, woke them up at 5am, and had them carry her bags smh and told them to watch her car. They told me she better not ask them to pick her up from the airport bc they're not doing it since she was so inconsiderate.
Wow…there is an airport shuttle service at most airports. That’s what I’ve used when I didn’t have a ride. If she can afford to fly she can well afford to use that service. And I live about 25 miles from the airport, it’s affordable.
If you put it on another neighbor’s door, then won’t the note’s author be able to deduce that you saw it? Because the note wouldn’t have gotten up and walked to a different door on its own.
I wouldn't complain. Since they are just asking. I might nor might not do any of that. Maybe just one thing. And hold to just that one thing. Yet for certain say yes, no, or whatever.
You don't have to be others doormat to be friendly.
I'd have put a note in saying I was going to be away for a few days. Can't believe anyone would give a relative stranger their house keys and ask favours! 🙄
Pretty much the way you did. Perhaps I’d leave the note under her door with the message, "sorry, since we don’t really know each other I think you put this on my door by mistake".
There's an old saying that I've lived by since the day I first heard it. It goes like this: Don't be friends with neighbors and don't have neighbors as friends.