Why I hate neighbors

[liberal N proud]

When we bought our house, we were the only ones on the road for a mile either direction. Then one day, the developers came in purchased the wooded land around us and cut the trees down and put up houses.

Suddenly, we have neighbors on 3 sides. One built a berm on our property and planted evergreens on the property line, the next one decided they owned half of our back yard. The third neighbor hired someone to clean up their leaves, all they did was blow them on our property in big piles and took off. I came home today and had huge piles of leaves in my yard parallel with the property line.

Yeah, neighbors are great! NOT! It seems like I drew the biggest assholes in the area.

[liberal N proud]

2. Yea because guns are the answer

[notrightatall]

5. Oh, sorry i forgot to add:

[scarystuffyo]

3. You should have bought more land

What made you think all the property around you wasn't going to be developed ?

[liberal N proud]

9. I bought an acre.

That was about all I could afford at the time.

[femmocrat]

4. I can sympathize.

I never had neighbors that didn't annoy the crap out of me.

[liberal N proud]

18. I have one neighbor who is cool

A bachelor who owns a bar.

We will have a beer together and talk about what the city is doing to our street this year.

[dilby]

6. Who owned the land around your house when you bought it?

My mom almost bought a home like yours, it was a cute home with a decent amount of property and no neighbors just wooded land around it. When my mom told me about it I told her she should find out who owns the surrounding property and see if she can buy that as well because eventually someone may develop on it. She asked the seller of the house if he knew who the owner was and the guy said he had no idea. So me and my mom did a little investigation which is not hard and found out the guy who was selling the house also owned the surrounding property. When my mom confronted the guy on it he admitted that he wanted to use the sale of the house for capital to develop the surrounding properties by building houses on them and selling them. This guy was total scum and I am glad my mom did not buy into his scheme because the location with no neighbors was the whole selling point.

[Phentex]

7. I love my neighbors but have/had the leaf issue too...

Their lawn service people blow the leaves into our yard. I have to say, for the past two weeks I saw them blow them into the neighbor's driveway and then they raked and bagged them! I was pleasantly surprised. We'll see how long it lasts.

I have been tempted to blow them back but I know it's the company and not the neighbors themselves doing this. But I can't say I won't do it!

I'm sorry you are being taken over.

[liberal N proud]

10. I am just sick getting shit on by others

I mind my own business and keep my dog at home and every time I get shit on.

[Aerows]

19. the first reply you got`

was shitty, and I alerted. We here at DU ARE better than this, we just have a wave of assholes that are taking advantage of the jury system.

I love you Liberal N Proud, don't quit because of jackasses.

[bigwillq]

8. For years, we had no one across the street

there was a huge empty space filled with trees and such. We used to ride our ATVs in that lot.

But then they built houses on that lot and on the lot in back of that.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Lay down the ground rules now,

the longer this stuff continues, the more they will try to get away with.

Most will back off if they are called out on these infractions early-on.

Been there, done that.

Good luck.

[Jenoch]

12. Is the berm really on your property?

When I was a kid my parents bought a house that was just inside the city limits. There were no houses west or southwest of us, just an alfalfa field. The wind blew a lot so he planted a hedge along the west end of the property, but a foot across the property line. Eventually, someone built a house there and they had a hedge that needed trimming.

[flvegan]

13. ON your property?

If you have a survey, or otherwise know your boundaries by pins/rods/monuments/whatever and they've encroached onto your property, you'd be wise to do something about it immediately.

[liberal N proud]

16. Yes on my property and a few feet from the property corner post

One that was there for years.


I dealt with that by excavating the berm back to the property line and putting up private property sighs along the line.

The latest one is the piles of leaves that now have to deal with form a different neighbor.

[Louisiana1976]

14. I've lived in a city all my life so I've always had neighbors. The great majority have been nice,

but I had one neighbor who was a real asshole. He'd be on me about the littlest thing.

[Hortensis]

15. I'm so sorry. We could easily have similar problems but have been fortunate so far.

Your serene remote place has been changed forever, so I wish you at least one happy new friendship in return. Most of these problems, after all, were caused by hirees and probably lot line misunderstandings, probably not so much venal self interest. ITM, you are not helpless. The law is on your side. Put its massive wheel to work for you if needed. And go ahead and get the leaf-blower guy. Create your own noisy blow-back to make him sorry. He deserves it, and would-be clients need to be alerted.

BTW, just me and I assume no responsibility for anyone who might copy, but if the evergreens were on my property line and the neighbors were recalcitrant even after a nice discussion, I'd get my shovel and move them back a few feet myself. Before the shrubs rooted in, way before their maturing mass ate up my usable space. Then I'd plant a pretty mixed tree-shrub-perennial border in front of them to take advantage of the handsome background they'll provide and further hide the neighbor's house.

[magical thyme]

17. take action on the berm immediately

and get to work on your backyard too.

My next door neighbor tried to run over my dogs in my driveway. My neighbor across the street tried to turn my horses loose onto a busy street.

My neighbor on the other side cut down a 60' mountain ash growing in the middle of the perimeter stone wall, destroying my view on that side, along with killing a beautiful tree and dropping it into my rotation pasture.. She moved away and fortunately her replacements keep to themselves.

My neighbors further down are fine. It's the immediately ones that have been horrible.

[hunter]

20. My parents and my brother have both suffered this.

My parents had seven acres of orchards and an ordinary home surrounded by much larger orchards.

Over the existing neighbor's objections the surrounding orchards got rezoned as one acre McMansion land.

Talk about bad neighbors. They used up all the local water, imported expensive water, saturated the place with herbicides and insecticides, and formed a pernicious, petty-minded, and thoroughly white-bread homeowners association that my parents rejected.

I don't even recognize the place anymore. As a teen I used to roam all over with our dogs off leash. If I did that now somebody would call the police. And besides, there's no place to go.

My parents retired, sold the land, and eventually retreated to a remote place that's not likely to be developed or gentrified before the collapse of this so-called civilization. I don't think I could live in a place that was intolerant of a bit of anarchy. I don't want neighbors who would complain about the colors of my house or my low-water no-lawn landscaping.

[PasadenaTrudy]

21. Everyone I know rents

If assholes or someone with kids moves in next door, it's much easier to move when you don't own the place.

[Jamaal510]

23. I don't necessarily

hate my neighbor like you hate yours, but I hate how my apartment walls are thin enough to where I can hear his (crappy) music and him having sex.

[flamingdem]

24. Ugh. Bad neighbors

Stressful, over time have tuned it out, they will not change.