Too picky? Not at all. I'd call every authority involved to complain and as you suggested, contact builders through their websites. It's certainly in their best interest to keep you and any other future owners happy.

Perhaps. I can look that up. Good idea. Is calling the police over the top?

This is a Parade of Homes neighborhood. ONE of the builders has had his lot picked up and even the interior swept out (shop-vac'd maybe). There isn't ever trash on that ONE site. But the rest of them? WOW.

I do not want to piss off my builder but this is totally unacceptable.

Yes, calling police as the first step is a bit over the top. How about a Health & Safety department, maybe your town has one of those?

I reported it as a code violation with the county permit office. I'm going to go pick up the trash from my lot again tonight (luckily i live in an apartment and have giant dumpsters).

Last night I walked through the area and there was trash after hours. I understand during the day not wanting to come down a ladder to put away an empty caulking tube but it's left after hours. As my screen name signifies, I live in a very windy area. The wind picks up every night and the trash is blowing everywhere.

I could not report it anonymously but I really hope they don't give my name out. :/

They should be able to just drive through and give the builders/subs a first warning and follow up with fines if necessary. There shouldn't be any need for them to give out your name. It really is a health and safety issue with the food waste and nails, etc. Let us know how it works out.

Mine was the same way. We had banana peels, Apple cores, bags of chips, countless half used Gatorade bottles.....and the worst were bottles filled with urine. Took one phone call and never happened again.

Thanks everyone for the advice.

Report the homes that are not yours, nothing else you can do.

Do not take the passive aggressive approach when it comes to your house, though. Contact either your builder directly or the construction superintindent and advise them to get control of their sub-contractors by having them clean their mess at the end of every day, or back charge them if they don't. There is no excuse for a messy job site. If the issue isn't resolved, clean it yourself or hire someone and invoice the builder.

My favorite client/builder in my area carries imaculately clean job sites, and posts signs advising subs to clean their messes or be back charged.

If it's a covenant-controlled area, with a Design Review Board, they should be monitoring things like this. If you have such an entity, give them a call too.

I didn't realize this kind of problem existed until I read about it here - our builder was a bigger neatnik than my husband is; there was never trash in or around the house while they were building.

It is a convenant-controlled area but unfortunately the neighborhood is new so the builder controls the CCRs and all entailed until it's turned over to the homeowners down the road at 85% sold.

I just got back from the site. I found beer bottles in the bin. As I own the property and carry the course-of-construction insurance, I will CERTAINLY be giving my Project Manager a call tomorrow. I was not pleased.

I also picked up around the site. I'm going to go buy one of those grabber things so I can pick up the rusty nails from the street areas.

Grr.

Mama, I know it shouldn't come to this, but I have read on here before that a owner bought some used 50 gallon drums from a company, or on craigslist, and put a few throughout the property where the most trash was. Subs were just too lazy to walk to the dumpster, but if the bin was there they would use it.

Maybe someone remembers the story of the subs peeing right by the new houses door constantly :(

It is inexcusable that this builder would tolerate any subs trashing your property or the neighbors. I would address your concerns nicely with the builder.

We had a huge tree fall on our house years ago and it destroyed/flattened 1/3 of the landscaping in the back yard. The trees cutters had a job on their hands with the tree, limbs, and leaves. When they were finished all the debris was removed from our yard. Other than all my landscaping missing, you could not tell a tree had fallen. I took the time to call the owner of the company to praise him and his workers for an exceptional cleanup. He said the cleanup was an important part of his service.