Another azzhold neighbor thread, what would you do?

[look 171]

Pic was taken at an angle. They have a 4' wide gate and about 4 feet in front of their gate and the width of the garage to put their trash cans. That's what I do not understand the reason for having putting them in front of my home. Anther things is when thr city trucks empties their trash, they often just dump the cans and ot falls over on my side so I get to pick them up. Sometimes they don't pick them up for a day or two. When they do pick it up, it site out on the curb in front of their gate for a few days. Crazy and lazy

[john70t]

Yeah that shower in your back yard should not last another day.
Get a copy of land survey on file.
Toss it in the dumpster, barbed wire, then install "private property no trespass" signs blocking all egress.
Or put up camera and charge $1,000 entry fee. Small claims.

Neighbor with bad retaining wall needs a notarized certified letter with a cc to city housing and your insurance company.
That should wake him up. It need to be done some time, and will prevent further damage.
Maybe it could be dangerous with a flooding mudslide(?)


I was looking at the street and thinking "meh row houses" but then saw that view..

[look 171]

Survey done just need his lazy ass to get recorded.

Housing and the city could care less. I have tried. They said its a matter between home owners.

Most of the house is on the down slope. But they are on a typical 50" wide lot. All three of the property fan out in the back since we are right in the turn. hard to come by in crowded LA

[ckelly78z]

Wow, that city life would be stressful, i've had campsites bigger than that with more separation. I'll stay on my 10 acres with the closest neighbors 1/4 mile in each direction....no issues other than ATVs, and snowmobiles running amuk.

[wayner]

I had a neighbor who escalated his driveway to repave.
In the process he took out a section of my side yard big enough to park my truck on.

(Looking out at his new driveway trajectory from his door, it was a straight shot and avoided some trees and a lamp post on the other side of his property).

But, Looking at his house from street, since his house sat on an angle, he had obviously carved out part of my lot. He couldn't see this, even when I brought out my survey and located the pins.

He eventually promised to do the right thing, but then proceeded to have gravel laid and packed ready or paving.

=PHASE I=
It was a lot of stress waiting for him to do the right thing and was causing issues for me on the home front until finally I said enough is enough, told my wife to get in the truck, we picked up a load of sod, laid it over his roadbed following my survey markers, and had an excavator from a new house construction across the street drop a big assed old rock there and we built a nice rock garden and retaining wall.

=PHASE II=
I dug up his mailbox form the end of my laneway and handed it to him.
He said this is the community mailbox area...I pointed to the official community mailbox area 10 houses away and resented the letter I had obtained from the postal service confirming this

His wife confronted us insisting they could put their mailbox back on my property instead of the other side of their laneway. When we wouldn't agree, see insinuated that our flag pole in the back down by the river was actually on her property. My my wife and her were mixing it up, I took my shove and in a few minutes dug up the flagpole brought it back and dropped it at her feet and said " anything else?

Situation neutralized.

=PHASEII=
We get huge snow storms.

I cleared most of the snow from the driveway across to my front lawn.
Some of it got shoveled onto my yard next to their driveway.

I caught an earful from his wife because after one huge snowfall, some chunks of snow off my bank end up on their driveway.

I immediately erected a chunk of plywood against my retaining wall cgi enough to hold the snow back (and look like an eyesore from there side.

He came storming out and gave me another earful and demanded that I take it down.
I simply responded with "Why do you guys keep causing ****...turned and walked away"

Every issue they had was met with a worse issue.
And every complaint they had was met with the words "What you do on your side of the property line is none of my business," and walked away.

=Moral=
I've left out a lot of their other antics.

Once getting a call from the gas company guy who was in their driveway with them as they insisted the new gas line be run up my property instead of theirs. (They insisted the gas guy call me to ask my permission but instead the gas guy immediately saw what was going on and called me to tell me the situation, within their earshot he didn't ask my permission, instead without me having a chance to say anything he told me loudly (so they could hear) not to worry that this was gong to be done on their property and by the book).

These people were takers. They got away with a lot and caused us a lot of grief until I finally took a zero tolerance stand and with every action on their part, I took immediate action without delay. Once including a lawyers letter.

Before I took a stand, each year consistently the property line seems to move further and further towards my house.

Enough.

[svandamme]

you know, they'll get tired of finding their bins if they keep rolling down hill on their own...

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

You city people are funny...

What Jeff needs is a freakin' bull dozer....make some elbow room . Nice warm weather though !

[look 171]

Its not that bad. The lots are pie shaped so there's a a lot of room between the houses (by LA standard anyway). It opens up in the back on the down hill side. Majority of the house is in the back, off the street so its really quiet back there. Thank goodness we have no back yard neighbors.

A little update for ya. This was Tuesday. I went home for lunch and see what I normally see, trash cans. The trash truck driver isn't very good at putting things back gently and those cars are theirs, in front of my kitchen on the curb. I do what I always do, put them back on their side and it will stay out there for a couple days on the curb like that. Oh believe, I called the city about that, they come by leave a note and goes away.

[vash]

this thread came to mind several weeks ago.

my neighbor put their Christmas tree in front of my house. it was dry..just looking at it hard, needles would fall off.

it was picked up by the city. (late) and i think the entire volume of pine needles remained. my neighbor across the street paused in his daily ritual of telling people, "get off my lawn" and approached me. he said for me to push it all over on their side.

nah..gravity and nature would blow that crap into my front door opening.

i swept it up. slightly begrudgingly. but whatever.

[look 171]

Where's my pic? let me try again

[look 171]

No luck. will try again later when I get home

[look 171]

Let again with the pic

My trash can is actually up top. All three of his are in front of my house which I always have to pick up or roll it back every Tuesday back onto his side along with some of his trash that get dumped out by trash truck Someone walks by and trips over his cans, they may sue my ass?

[look 171]

suddenly, I lost the ability to post pictures?

[Tobra]

try clearing your cache

[unclebilly]

Originally Posted by look 171

I know Calgary pretty well and visit my relatives often. Aren't you just at the edge of the city? I remember you mentioned that you ride your bike in Nosehill Park. That's just outside your backyard. You guys keep building those high rise condos and they are going up all over the place, this crap will be coming to your city very soon.

Nope, not me. I live 20 miles outside of Calgary on 160 acres. My closest neighbor’s house is 3/4 of a mile away. It will be at least 50 years before the city grows out to my back yard...

[wayner]

Originally Posted by look 171

Let again with the pic

My trash can is actually up top. All three of his are in front of my house which I always have to pick up or roll it back every Tuesday back onto his side along with some of his trash that get dumped out by trash truck Someone walks by and trips over his cans, they may sue my ass?

Don’t put them back

Move them one house further down hill

[look 171]

Originally Posted by wayner

Don’t put them back

Move them one house further down hill

Thought bout' that, but they all have these Ring door bells. I will be the bad guy.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by look 171

Thought bout' that, but they all have these Ring door bells. I will be the bad guy.

Dress up like your neighbour!

[svandamme]

hire ninja's to do it

[wayner]

Dress up as his wife!