- Apr 4, 2011
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I have one of those neighbors too. I spent the first two years we lived here cleaning up the property. It had over 100 trees, all overgrown, some dead, weeds growing as tall as the garage, over grown bushes and the like. So I spent my summers cleaning everything up and getting it fairly presentable. Now, we did not move onto a golf course, or other such ridiculous sub-division where there are freedom robbing HOA's so things should be a bit more lax here. If that's what a person likes that's cool, it's just not for us. Most folks out here take care of their property, but they aren't crazy about it either. That is, except for one fellow, whom happens to be my next door neighbor. This guy seems to think that if he doesn't like the way someone takes care of their property that he has the right to enter said property and do what he wants. I have a fairly large stand of trees that is two rows wide, so any large limbs and branches that get blown out of my trees I pile up in that tree line to let them dry out to burn a couple times a summer. He dicided that wasn't good enough so he called the township zoning inspector and was told as long as that brush is in my treeline, there was nothing wrong with it. I wake up one day (I work third shift) to find him and his wife out in my tree line burning my brush!!! He had his burning barrel set up on his side of the property line and was dragging my brush over and burning it! He claims, he was only doing it to "help" me out. I told him that tresspassing upon my property and doing something I had not asked him to do was not helping me it was tresspassing!
He had pretty much behaved after that until that same fall. I had leaves covering my side yard on his side because I work so much, I hadn't had time to get them raked up and burned, it was the plan for the coming weekend. I wake up to find him out on his mower, on my property, mowing those leaves and scalping my grass as my yard is very uneven so I have to mow it much higher than he does his. I called the sheriff, the sheriff told him to stay on his own property, I put up no tresspassing signs and things have only gotten worse from there. He painted a derogatory statement on his telephone pole facing our way near the road and he hardly ever refrains from yelling things at us when we are out in our yard when he is home. Spring of 2012 will bring a 6' high privacy fence to that side of the property and farm fencing around the rest of the perimeter of our property as we are going to get goats as well as our chickens.
Why can't folks just keep thier noses on their faces and worry about their own lives?? It's maddening sometimes to think that some people have nothing better to do than worry about what someone else is doing!!
He had pretty much behaved after that until that same fall. I had leaves covering my side yard on his side because I work so much, I hadn't had time to get them raked up and burned, it was the plan for the coming weekend. I wake up to find him out on his mower, on my property, mowing those leaves and scalping my grass as my yard is very uneven so I have to mow it much higher than he does his. I called the sheriff, the sheriff told him to stay on his own property, I put up no tresspassing signs and things have only gotten worse from there. He painted a derogatory statement on his telephone pole facing our way near the road and he hardly ever refrains from yelling things at us when we are out in our yard when he is home. Spring of 2012 will bring a 6' high privacy fence to that side of the property and farm fencing around the rest of the perimeter of our property as we are going to get goats as well as our chickens.
Why can't folks just keep thier noses on their faces and worry about their own lives?? It's maddening sometimes to think that some people have nothing better to do than worry about what someone else is doing!!
