A key component to Borzotta's book is making a negative into a positive, which seems virtually impossible to those embroiled in today's neighbor wars. Taking the high road and maintaining sanity are important elements in his approach. He establishes this about-face from negativity and march toward positive fixes for one main reason — he knows first hand the drawbacks of making wrong moves toward resolution, and the devastating effects of hatred and seeking retaliation — and he leads the suffering to become managers of their own happy home lives in a world that is coming to accept ill neighbor behavior as par for the course.

Because in the end, triumphing over the world's worst neighbors — which millions of us seem to have — isn't achieved through lawsuits or police calls or any one tactic. In the cultural divide between Neighbors From Hell and the growing good-neighbor underclass, triumph cannot be hunted down and pinned on as a badge. It gets cultivated, it grows and it ultimately produces the fruit of peaceful existence in almost any neighborhood.