we live on a small development. Sort of like a big horse shoe of a road. There are 12 buildable lots that have shared lake access lot. It's actually quite nice. We've got a little elbow room here, reduced taxes because we're not right on the lake but still lake access a short distance away. We are the only place that stay here as a main home. Everybody else is a 'cabin'. Their homes are suburb or cities. So DH leaves gate open quite a lot for us to get to the ice or boat. This year with his knee and unpredictable ice and BB season he didn't put out a fish house. But gate left open as our lot is one of two ways to get an ice house or boat launched on the whole lake. DH has let a couple buddies access. Now the neighbors think we let Everybody use it...which may have inadvertently happened outside our knowledge. So because we are local all the neighbors hate us for letting other people use it. I myself have warned DH about being overly generous. And he's went so far as putting new lock and passing keys to all neighbors to rectify some of this a few years back. But they still yap behind our backs obviously. Some kid in the neighborhood pulled his shanty off there and has left it in the lot because the gate was locked. DH took a heated call from a loop neighbor. So I think we're done being generous to friends who keep the ice road open with their plows and gas for a little access. Some people don't think outside the box. Nonetheless it's a private association access lot and we're trying to be more thoughtful of the neighbors who have lots here. I've told DH he needs to just be that way, I guess.
