Ran into one of my territorial neighbor's posts

[RalphVa]

If I was, I wouldn't plant raspberries, that's for sure.

I pick raspberries naked all the time. Mine are in rows. Used to do it in a patch, but it's much better to have them in rows.

 

[Industrial Toys]

REMEMBER, no pictures and it didn't happen.

 

[RalphVa]

This neighbor on the left is a real pissant. He had some trees put in a couple years ago and cut our phone line in two places simply because he refused to believe that OUR phone line could be on HIS property (but it is within 10 ft of the line to either side, almost nationally; he was in real estate and should have know that).

When the company came out to dig a new line, he stood defiantly on his property and refused to let them go onto it. They later came out and found a way to route it on my side of the line, while has A LOT more uneven topography, etc. than his side.

Over the nearly 20 years of renting the place, the back end of his approximately 2 acres or so (ours is 8.5), there were a lot of invasive stuff on and in between his trees. He hired an outfit with a flail mower on the front end of a tracked CAT to come in and cut all that stuff up, flinging debris all over the place.

Yet, he tries to be nice. He just plain overdoes almost everything he does and makes himself a nuisance (like planting trees with a back hoe instead of just hand digging in soft earth during our very wet year that he put the trees in). He's a Vietnam vet from the same year I was there. Got that in common. He just is very territorial and doesn't have good sense.

He wants to keep people off his property because he keeps poaching hooved rats with (I think) a 30.06 rifle. One of them ended up on our property where it died.

His wife practically assaulted us one day right after they moved back in because we were going across the very back of their property with our orange vests on because it was hunting season, like now. We stopped doing it after than, coming back across just our property and relocated 2 people bridges that we'd had in place for 16-17 years to go up the dam and then across the very back of their property. Other neighbors were using those bridges and had to adapt. She, of course, was disturbed because she knew about his tendency to shoot back there. This is before we knew about that.

Ralph

 

[RalphVa]

REMEMBER, no pictures and it didn't happen.

Yeah. Cannot imagine how that post disappeared from my miscanthus area. Miscanthus is a WHOLE LOT nicer to mark a property line than a sorry, ugly, unnatural cast iron post (cast iron, not one of those stamped ones).

The back corners can be off nearly 10 ft. My neighbor to the right had theirs surveyed after us (think both of us from when the properties were bought: standard around here). That far back corner got placed a good 10 ft in HER (actually his wife's property) favor when they surveyed for them vs. us. You'd think they should be using satellite locating now in addition to their angles and distance. At least the old "10 ft to the right of the big old oak tree" definitions went by the way side.

Ralph

 

[Pirate]

My neighbor to the right side is like me: naked gardener, etc. Neither of us could care less where exactly the property line is, maybe within 10 ft or so.

Neighbor on the left is a horse of a different animal. He had been renting out the property for the last 16-17 years but has moved back. Well, he proceeded to get the place surveyed and had property stakes, big heavy iron fence posts, put about every 75 ft down both sides. I should have done like my neighbor did on the other side of him, e.g. removed all the stakes and stored them under his porch. Territorial guy came asking, and that neighbor says, "Oh, I saved them for you. Here they are."

Instead, I planted shrubs to hide the ones that are RIGHT THERE with nothing around. Well, one of them turned out to be in the miscanthus that I have in the milkweed patch. I decided to bushhog the nasty looking milkweed patch and forgot about that post. The Frontier RC made a pretzel of it (should have taken a picture). The wife took it out, and I went and got it to go with the rest of our recycle metal. Fortunately did not harm the Frontier. It's tough.

The territorial one is gone now. They have a house in Pa where they spend the winter.

Ralph

I would throw a fit if someone removed property line markers that I paid to have put in. WTF is wrong with people that think they can just remove stuff like that because they don't like it.

 

[ponytug]

Yep. Google has my house about 7 miles south of where it is. Every so often I have a tradesman trying to find me, finallyi call and then refuse to believe that google could be wrong...even though the address is on the mail box. addresses here are by the mile and hundreths there of from the beginning of the road. Thus if I have the adress I am looking for, a quick look at any mile post will tell me how far I am from that location.

If you care, you can file a notice with Google maps to fix it. When we first moved here Google maps had us about half a mile further down the road, and the nearby side streets completely foobar. It got old having guests ignore our directions and have to drive two miles out of their way, so we asked Google to fix it. It took about four months at the time.

Then again, the latest version of Apple maps used a nonexistent fork in the road to send drivers into a locked gate into a neighbor's property. The road there hasn't existed since the 1920s, when it was a gentler grade for horse drawn carts. I'm mildly curious whether the error came from an old map (no copyright issues?), or automatically drawing it from satellite photos. That one took six months to fix.

All the best,

Peter

 

[PILOON]

I'm rural and on a lake.
Way back the gov't did surveys for lakeside properties.
Being lazy they did a horrible job, all lots are pies shaped with no concern of the topography. (must have been the lowest bidder)
I would need a ladder or crane to access 1/2 of my property from only place I could build.
On the opposite side I'm even closer to the line (maybe even closer than municipal regs).
On the hi side, no problems, he uses it at will and I use the waterfront piece that he could never enjoy. Fair trade!
On the low side (vacant lot) IMHO he could never build due to municipal regs. Regs state U need 75 ft of road frontage and not on marshy soil.
His lot is far from road and there is marsh there.
Besides he can't claim 'acquired rights' as there was never a building there.
Also he is a major time procrastinator (he admits it) so I doubt he'll ever build. (20 yrs and no activity so far), all said but he is a super nice guy.

This lake we are on was 'gov't pioneer land' but back then they did not provide roads so we (I) built our own.
We simply went where ever we could hence the 'no man' land between out properties and the (now) verbalized road.
Laws state that U must have 75 ft bordering a municipalized road in order to build.

Hey, with all those constraints it is still 'god's country'.
Moose, goose and pure white snow and a mere 1 hour north of Montreal!
More than a few neighbors call it Paradise.

 

[fried1765]

Yeah. Cannot imagine how that post disappeared from my miscanthus area. Miscanthus is a WHOLE LOT nicer to mark a property line than a sorry, ugly, unnatural cast iron post (cast iron, not one of those stamped ones).

The back corners can be off nearly 10 ft. My neighbor to the right had theirs surveyed after us (think both of us from when the properties were bought: standard around here). That far back corner got placed a good 10 ft in HER (actually his wife's property) favor when they surveyed for them vs. us. You'd think they should be using satellite locating now in addition to their angles and distance. At least the old "10 ft to the right of the big old oak tree" definitions went by the way side.

Ralph

Reputable surveyors simply don't do "them vs. us".

 

[Steppenwolfe]

My lovely neighbor has bamboo leaning 40' over into my property and driveway. He promised to remove it. Once his illegal workers began, he realized it was going to cost him more than he thought, so he stopped. He also directs all his garage downspouts across his driveway onto my property.
The guy is a complete A-hole and one day I will get my chance to repay him.

May I suggest, you flood his basement... :cool2:

 

[Jstpssng]

I pick raspberries naked all the time. Mine are in rows. Used to do it in a patch, but it's much better to have them in rows.

Where I come from we call that "too much information."

REMEMBER, no pictures and it didn't happen.

Watch what you wish for please, it might just come true.

If you really do feel the need though, please do it via PM and spare the rest of us. :shocked: :laughing: