Why would someone leave their garage door open all day and night?

May be they think they’re living in Mayberry?

What are the chances of that happening? Is the area where you live considered as safe? Are there any security measures taken by the society to ensure safety? If not they might be careless people or might have some security alert system installed in the garage.

Trying to lure curious exchange students in, so that they can shotgun them in the face in cold blood.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31447685

It is odd in my opinion. I agree I’d be afraid they’ll get robbed. Do they have very young children who play in the driveway? I was just remembering one neighbor of mine had their garage up quite often during the day, because her 4 year old had the outside toys in the garage. You said Day and night though, so I can’t really explain that.

I had a friend back in the day whose parents almost always had the garage door up during the day, because everyone entered the house through the garage. The front door was far from the driveway, and the garage door was actually facing the main road, while the front door wasn’t.

The other people I know who do it have screens on their garage (as I mentioned on the other Q) or allow fir a cross breeze in the house.

Won’t the HOA eventually send them a notice that they can’t have their garage open all night?

Do they have a working garage door? I used to have a neighbor (he moved) who, in a drunken rage, tried to drive out of his garage with the door down. He bent the hell out of the door – not enough to destroy it totally.

When he did that, he somehow lifted it to the UP position, and – because he was a lousy neighbor and didn’t have the money to fix it – it remained up until the mortgage company foreclosed and kicked him out.

Possibly the dude’s door is broken?

The neighbors have 2 kids, I’m guessing around ages 9 and 12. I only met them once, the day they moved in 6 months ago. The kids don’t play outside, which seems kind of odd, just because there are lots of kids in our neighborhood, although maybe a few years younger, who play outside on a regular basis.

Their garage door does work, because it is occasionally closed. Although I would say most of the time, day and night, it is open.

I would say our neighborhood was relatively safe, although a few years back, someone went through and broke a bunch of car windshields, and every so often I hear cars speeding through, screeching their wheels in the middle of the night. We live at the end of the street just outside the cul de sac so there’s no reason to be speeding down there, and I assume that those people are not residents.

Another friend of mine who lives in another neighborhood, about a mile from me, but definitely within walking distance, had her own car stolen out of her driveway, along with 2 other cars on her street about 2 months ago.

We do have a hired “security patrol” who drives around at random times, mostly ticketing residents for minor parking offenses. Because of our HOA, you can’t park in your own driveway over night. You can’t park on the street overnight either, and if you have guests staying over, you have to call the secuity patrol ahead of time to inform them, otherwise the car will be ticketed. That is another reason I’m concerned about my neighbor and their garage door. The HOA is likely to ticket them, if they haven’t already, but maybe they have been ticketed and don’t care.

Maybe they are trying to air it out, let a frightened trapped animal escape, or they’re itchin’ for a fight with the HOA or just want to annoy some neighbors.

Or they forgot to close it.

Or it’s malfunctioning.

@Kardamom: Because of the HOA, you can’t park in your own driveway? That’s a little nuts LOL.

@jca Right! It is ridiculous. A few people in our neighborhood have multiple kids of driving age. They have to pay hundreds of dollars a year for a “variance” to have those cars, belonging to their kids in their own driveway. It’s ridiculous if you ask me.

Other people, who forget to call into the security company when they have guests, will find their guests’ cars ticketed in the morning.

That’s the reason I was curious about the folks across the street, because leaving your garage door open, without “good reason” is a ticket-able offense too.