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In 2012 I was commuting from Tuscany Hills to Palm Desert to install awnings. It was that daily jaunt to Hades and back that motivated me to start my own business closer to home. I started putting flyers on doors. I circulated exclusively among the 1200 homes of our HOA for Maintenance Mitch Handyman, house painting, window cleaning and eventually Tuscany Wrought Iron Fence & Gate. While canvassing the neighborhood I ran into our Nextdoor.com monitor Dan Baldwin. He said do yourself a favor and distribute my flyer too. I did. His flyer encouraged members of our HOA to join Nextdoor. My business grew in exact proportion to our Nextdoor.com membership. It's great, if you do good work your customers post favorable comments on Nextdoor. There is no better advertisement than that. Nextdoor.com is such great consumer protection for it's members. People that provided poor quality services... that gets posted too. One negative review screaming across page one of Nextdoor.com and you're done son.

I think it is a great tool for a lot of people. I do feel a lot of people abuse the sure and only use it to complain, all for someone for free, or to be a bully to someone. This is the 2nd town I've been on nextdoor with. This town is horrible on Nextdoor compared to where I came from. I think it needs some clear guidelines set.

Great source to keep in touch with everything going on in the surrounding area (about 3 or 4 mile radius) with a minimum of stuff that wouldn't relate to me. Good for finding vendors or suggestions to problems of ordinary homeowners. For the most part folks are pretty friendly and helpful. Those who want to be "snarky" for some reason can be blocked. Also helpful because the county administration and police use it to keep citizens aware of special circumstances and issues.

It has the potential to be a useful resource for keeping posted on neighborhood events and happenings but unfortunately attracts too many dysfunctional busybodies who have way too much time on their hands.
Endless rants and complaining from bitter hateful people about the most trivial things with nasty and mean spirited insults back and forth. It discourages participation or involvement in even the most benign topics of discussion like "if you're not picking up your dogs poo after it goes in the grass you are a vile^%*#^*^& horrible person not worthy of the air you breath." It's scary to read some of the comments of people who "want to pass laws" to persecute those who don't agree with them. (God forbid you bring up anything remotely related to politics or religion!) So, it ends up being a magnet for opinionated self appointed "geniuses" who bully the dissenters right off the platform.

Normal, balanced people with a life will have little time for this soap box.

I have posted a bullying incident at my son's school which was not handled by school properly. We have publicized the incident and reported to the Police Department and the District as it was physical pushing around involved.
The post received a lot of attention, until one of the PTA presidents wrote a comment. After one day the whole post was removed.
This is a lack of responsibility and lack of research and investigation on behalf of Nextdoor, that you removed my post without investigation. There were couple post that called me "insane", "crazy". Which I responded if you read the entire post and you just write this comment to me, then perhaps you need to be institutionalized and not me.

However; the post was not removed when that one person attacked me, but the entire post was removed when I responded.
It is noteworthy to mention I received 100s of very supportive comments and messages and therefore; the PTA and school felt threatened that is why they reported my post to you. It was very disappointing.

Nextdoor is a great way to stay informed of happenings in your area. You can plan community events such as Christmas Light Shows Independence Day Parades. Put the word out about external groups or your Church activity and invite the whole neighborhood. It's a great place for recommendations for handyman services or almost anything you can think of. Buy and sell to your neighbors. Look for a missing pet or tell everyone you have a stray. Most of all it builds a sense of community. I say that is the best part of Nextdoor.