"Curious that the neighbors would rather have an unmaintained and abandoned property sit vacant and all of the potential associated problems with that rather th

"Curious that the neighbors would rather have an unmaintained and abandoned property sit vacant and all of the potential associated problems with that rather than occupied by someone who presumably has an interest in keeping it up." It is not curious, it is obvious: First they hate to have a neighbor that is not used to buy things like they do. Maybe they consider this action stealing somebody else property, as it is in fact. People don't like thieves as neighbors that claim property of what "you don't use", I met a guy that stole bicycles and motorbikes as "nobody uses them"(when they did not use it for periods of 20 or 30 days, witch made it easier to rob). In Spain and Romania, gypsies use to enter your property and steal everything they can if there is not somebody watching. E.g they steal the copper for the power grid from public railroads at night, in south crops they steal the copper from transformers that make electrovalves work. In Spain something like 20 people die every month stealing copper(electrocuted). They have someone from a different socio economic status too. If the home is free,then they want to have the opportunity to buy it at free market. They will have family members or friends that are in need to. Those people think that if they respect the rules, everybody has to respect it too, because if they don't there is not reason they have to work, they can steal or kill for getting what they need too.(maybe even better).