Trashy Neighbors

I'm going to vent here for a moment. We have owned our home for over 20 years. The neighborhood is not the best or nicest in town, but it's always been quiet and clean. Recently, the older couple that lived in the house across the street for over 30 years sold their home. Unfortunately, the people who bought it rent it out. I hate renters! They don't care about the property or anybody else's. In less than a year, we now are seeing the second renters in the house. The first ones skipped out on three month's rent. The current ones have about a million kids (I have yet to actually see an adult over there), and they are making a complete mess of the place. They leave trash everywhere. Today I actually picked it up out of my yard and threw it back into theirs. Why do slum lords rent to people like this? They're just trashing their property. Everybody else's property values go down, and I don't even like the neighborhood anymore because of it. The kids are always hanging around in everybody else's yard or in the street. Why don't they stay in their own yard? Now don't get me wrong - I like kids. My own kids and their friends always played basketball out in the street. But they didn't leave trash around, didn't use bad language, and weren't disrespectful of the cars trying to drive down the street. We even let these kids use our basketball hoop until they refused to follow the "rules" we set. All we did was ask them not to play after 10:00 pm. Is that asking too much? So, after asking them several times, we just took the hoop down. There's nothing we can do about the situation except hope that the house next door that is for sale won't be sold to another slum lord. It's very frustrating and discouraging. I hope they get evicted before we want to sell our house - nobody will want to buy it with that trash in the neighborhood.