He must be using a pretty powerful telescope or binoculars as most of those collectibles are tiny!

Still, I've found plenty of rare collectibles on my own, without his help, so he doesn't spot them all. Also, why does he use email? Wouldn't it be more sensible to use the phone given that the collectible will disappear in a short while?

do they have a ph..havent seen one lol

* phone rings, and Coco picks it up*
Coco: "yello, this is the candy residence."
Freaky neighbor: " This is your neighbor, and I just spotted
ANOTHER collectible in your yard!"
Coco: "Mom! It's the crazy stalker again!"
Pennella: " Again? Just hang up, Dear!"

That's probbably what would happen if the neighbor called them.
I would enjoy that.

Whenever I get that email, I immediately hit the Space Bar to pause the game so the item doesn't disappear before I can find it. I've always been successful when I do it that way.

I wonder if there is a way to modify the email message to include something like, "Oh, and I also noticed that your daughter is jumping on the bed again"

Im not sure it works that way, usually in VV even if you pause it the collectables dissapear in a short while... but maybe its just in Virtual Villagers.

I always thought about that of sending an email and by time they read it it is strange that it's still there arnie

I agree with Annthewhofan! It takes a while for emails to get to my email!!! Or maybe hes just sycic and send the message before it happens

I've had a collectable there each time, and on another occasion, he informed my poor, creeped out family that he was inventing a weather machine, and to tell him if we saw it was working.

I think this neighbor is a little too involved with my family for never having met them...and how did he get their e-mail? And what is his REAL name? These answers remain a mystery...

I wonder why he needs to be told if his weather machine is working, anyway? If he can see ito our family's garden well enough to tell the difference between rare and other collectibles, surely he'd be able to see for himself?

Maybe in the next VF we can choos eour neighbor and if they "watch" us all the time or not. Or, ohh, we can get them to buy groceries in all that free time they use stalking us.