PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - Dealing with ridiculous neighbors... help / advice..

96C220 · #1 07-04-2005, 05:49 PM

Okay,

My neighbor is either insane, has undiagnosed ocd, or really, really needs to get a hobby.

Over the years, we've been very shrill towards each other. This came to a head about a year ago, when my sump pump failed and flooded my basement. He called the town and got me a $1000 fine for putting trash out more than 24 hours before the next scheduled collection. He did not ask where or why all this trash came from. 80% of it was cardboard boxes that had been soaked in the flood. What was I supposed to do with that? I ended up going to court and got it dismissed after I explained the situation.

Now his latest obcession has become the property line, and cutting the grass exactly up to it. He confronted me once telling me "i'm going to tell you this once nice" learn where the property line is bla bla bla. To which I responded oh yeah, well what are you going to do the second time, and told him he needed to get a life and walked away.

A few days ago, he decided that he was going to arbitrarily measure the property line, using a string, and then proceeded to spray paint saftey orange lines in the grass along his percieved property line, every few feet, the entire length. Mind you my lot is 357 feet deep.

He did not call in a surveyor, or otherwise scientifically measure anything. So as far as i'm concerned, its just a line in the grass... Meanwhile his line differs from the cut line by maybe 4" at most. And this is cut with a 42" tractor. Its not like i get bored and cut figure 8's in his lawn for kicks.

Today I come home, and i see a makeshift fence, fabricated out of 1x3 stakes and a piece of black burlap stapled to them, in the middle of the lot, about 35 feet long. This is ridiculous, totally unacceptable.

Meanwhile, he has building materials, and other assorted garbage stacked in the back of his property. He tore his deck off and it looks like hes about to start either an addition or replacement deck.

He is uneducated, and more of a confrontational tough guy than anything else. I am trying to avoid a physical or verbal confrontation with him, not that I am afraid of him, but I am not going to stoop to his level.

What are my options as far as putting an end to this situation? Can I seek legal recourse, a cease and desit order? Can I force him to survey the property if he intends to mark the property line?

Please see the attached image, and keep in mind this is in a community of half million + dollar homes.

Thanks in advance,

George