jimLE
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Exactly what I'm saying.
THE KIND OF NEIGHBORS NO ONE WANTS
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If anyone blocks my driveway or access after being told will have tgere vehicle towed away or pushed away.
On a local news site, someone said that it was a lie that opioids were being smuggled over the border. Someone else disagreed and this guy resorted to name calling.
I just jumped in and said that there was no reason to be rude just because you disagree. Then I sent him a link where they are actually using catapults to throw the drugs across. That is a pretty smart idea though.
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Lucky for me, no one can build North, East and South, it's all Forest Service land, if they build West of me 2 miles is the closes they can get. We have a very small town East of me 18.5 miles and West of me 20 miles away.
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Sounds like paradise.
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I like to think so, it has its ups and downs.
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if someone is trespassing on your land and that's what it is, i'm surprised the police weren't called, although in this country trespassing is a civil not a criminal case, of course he could have got an injunction issued which is what I would have done-have done it before when someone was were they shouldn't have been. some people wont be told no matter how many times we tell them.
Danil54grl
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Unfortunately we can not pick and choose our neighbors. I thought we were going to have good ones when we moved considering he was sheriff and my hunny was city policeman. . . Sort of a brotherhood type thing, but I was so wrong. He thinks he is above the law. . .
Honestly I feel bad for your dad. He thought he was "helping" his neighbor out along with himself by mowing down the neighbors property. Are they in the city? They could call and file a complaint on the grass height of there is a city ordainance, but by the sounds of your description, maybe not. My mom calls on her neighbors all the time about their grass.
Honestly I feel bad for your dad. He thought he was "helping" his neighbor out along with himself by mowing down the neighbors property. Are they in the city? They could call and file a complaint on the grass height of there is a city ordainance, but by the sounds of your description, maybe not. My mom calls on her neighbors all the time about their grass.
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you don't want our next door neighbour, she has a history of mental illness-she can be talking to you as nice as anything one minute, the next minute she is flying into a rage, the best thing is she isn't even the tenant-that's her daughter and she's never there! we just ignore her, don't make eye contact-she dosent exist.
That sounds heavenly. My neighbors are not really close but they do make more noise than I like. Seems like there is always a bulldozer or something going on over there. When I hear it , I think what do they have left to bulldoze? They cut trees, run the chainsaws, and a dump truck. Rumor is they have a bunker according to my son.
It takes a lot of money to pull that off, I am just above poverty so.....it is out of the question for me. I sure wish I could build fencing or something. I decided to let some grassland grow up more along the front of the property. Maybe some trees will start up in there. I already have an old tree line there, but it is not enough coverage for me.
The same neighbors on the East have purchased 5 acres on my West. They had someone lumber out the trees. They go over and cut stuff from time to time and I heard from a relative of theirs they plan to build. I let it be known I like my privacy in a nice way and that I wasn't happy about it. Of course being ever so nice and kind. I only wish I had the money to buy it when it came up for sale. It sucks being poor. You have to put up with so much crap.
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As much heavenly as it sound, it ain't much heaven when the state government is against you ideologically and law. The state is practically govern by mob-rule, if the legislature can't get bad bill to pass case in point, gun restrictions, the liberal legislature including the governor and attorney general will help put it on a ballet with outside resources, two liberal counties pretty much vote for the whole state. the best way to describe the two counties is machiavellianism.
Sounds like Ill which is full of decent people but you have Chicago making all the rules.
We lived in a house several years ago. The people that lived next door were bikers. It was a mom and a dad and their son. The parents split up. The boy stopped going to school. He was out in his front yard all day. He listened to music, smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol and probably other stuff. Other kids would skip school and they would go to his house. After school the kids would congregate there. The police came out several times a week. The mom would leave for days at a time and the kid would just hang out and party all the time. It was that house. It was very frustrating.
We moved and shortly after they moved. The kid got arrested for refusing to give the police his name. He spent over a week in jail. He just wanted to be mule headed.
I found out later that the kid died in 2012. The mom was devastated..... I mean devastated. She still writes open letters to him (even today) on Facebook.
I think she feels guilty for not being around. Not that any of that matters because they were a royal pain the butt to live next door too.
We moved and shortly after they moved. The kid got arrested for refusing to give the police his name. He spent over a week in jail. He just wanted to be mule headed.
I found out later that the kid died in 2012. The mom was devastated..... I mean devastated. She still writes open letters to him (even today) on Facebook.
I think she feels guilty for not being around. Not that any of that matters because they were a royal pain the butt to live next door too.
Just keep a side eye out on her but keep on walking. Sounds like a good idea. So 30% of the population are A-_ _ _ _'s and 30% are insane Folks like us, the sane, the prepared, the listening and lay low types are probably a very small minority.
How awful!! Guilt is a terrible thing to live with. Kids must have structure in practically every moment they are alive til they are grown. Even then they still get in trouble. I know I used to be one. LOL
Gazrok
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To be fair, in some places, maintaining an easement can give you a claim on it...so while I get the neighbor's concern, there's a right way, and a wrong way, to handle it. A nice conversation, a signed piece of paper, and a hearty handshake could have resulted in a clean property, and no hard feelings.
TexasFreedom
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Well ain't that something. If you never wanted to talk with him again, wait until you know he's leaving town for a week. find the end of that pipe, and take the nastiest liquids you can think of. Make an adapter and with a compressor blow anything and everything back up that pipe. It will go back up into his house, and gush out that opening behind his washer, flooding his bathroom. Imagine those smells festering in his house for a week. And put the drain just as it was after you finished. Imagine his confusion! But you'll see if he doesn't move his drain!
Another route would have been to contact the county compliance office. Point out the problem and go over and talk together with him about it. He'd have a choice: clean it up to your satisfaction with a 3rd-party crew, or pay up the same costs plus in court.
I'm not a good neighbor when a neighbor violates the property line.
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a very small minority in the UK, if you add preppers +bushcrafters +smallholders(homesteaders)+ back to the land types it still wouldn't come to even 1% of the population.
Gazrok
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I'm more of the "kill 'em with kindness" type when it comes to neighbors, as I don't plan on movin' anytime soon, and I know I'll have to keep dealing with them.
But, I also stand up for myself. A neighbor was repeatedly driving her bus out of my entryway (killing the grass in the process, and then she griped about where I put my trash cans (on my property)), somehow convinced that the driveway was hers (it's a 400' drive, leading back to our property, nowhere else)... ???
Anyhow, I finally went over with the real estate map to show them that indeed, it was my drive. She pretty much piped down after that, especially when I floated the idea of putting up a fence to preserve the grass (which would make it impossible for her to use the drive to access her front door, as her driveway goes up to the backdoor.)
Never raised my voice, never shouted, just calmly explained what the deal was.
Her daughter is a nasty person though. She stayed there for a bit (in between her prison stints). She was the one who tried to convince her mom it was her drive. (which is ludicrous...as it would mean I'd have to drive down their property to get to mine...duh). She's back in jail now, and last I heard, isn't getting out anytime soon (and the mom (who's a much older lady than I), isn't considering having her there again (stole from her, for drug money).
On the other side, an older guy. His dogs keep getting through the fence into our pastures, but we since helped each other fix a fence after Irma, so we seem good so far. He does some kind of business out of his home working on boats and RVs. Has a huge shop for it there on the property.
Only other neighbors I have, a mom and her little girl. The little gal likes to watch the horses when there are some in the pasture bordering them, and I've invited them both over if she ever wants to see them closer, but so far, hasn't done so. Oh well.
But, I also stand up for myself. A neighbor was repeatedly driving her bus out of my entryway (killing the grass in the process, and then she griped about where I put my trash cans (on my property)), somehow convinced that the driveway was hers (it's a 400' drive, leading back to our property, nowhere else)... ???
Anyhow, I finally went over with the real estate map to show them that indeed, it was my drive. She pretty much piped down after that, especially when I floated the idea of putting up a fence to preserve the grass (which would make it impossible for her to use the drive to access her front door, as her driveway goes up to the backdoor.)
Never raised my voice, never shouted, just calmly explained what the deal was.Her daughter is a nasty person though. She stayed there for a bit (in between her prison stints). She was the one who tried to convince her mom it was her drive. (which is ludicrous...as it would mean I'd have to drive down their property to get to mine...duh). She's back in jail now, and last I heard, isn't getting out anytime soon (and the mom (who's a much older lady than I), isn't considering having her there again (stole from her, for drug money).
On the other side, an older guy. His dogs keep getting through the fence into our pastures, but we since helped each other fix a fence after Irma, so we seem good so far. He does some kind of business out of his home working on boats and RVs. Has a huge shop for it there on the property.
Only other neighbors I have, a mom and her little girl. The little gal likes to watch the horses when there are some in the pasture bordering them, and I've invited them both over if she ever wants to see them closer, but so far, hasn't done so. Oh well.
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