Ran into one of my territorial neighbor's posts

[Peter 315]

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

HAHA.....

 

[Jstpssng]

About 12 years ago when we purchased our property, the previous owner left about 100 trees marked with ribbons and one neighbor asked me if I intended to have these trees cut (back then trees could be turned into cash) and I told him no.

That pleased him until I started to clean up the property to reduce the fuels (limb mostly dead branches on the trees to about 8'-12' from the ground and removing all of the ground fuels which took me about 6 summers and now it's never ending with winter downed trees, etc...).

This neighbor so liked his privacy he would never consider cleaning the fuels on his property, has since moved due to health reasons, new neighbors are slowly removing fuels.

I marked the bottom of some of "my trees" next to the ground with an orange spray can dot (about 2" dia.), and I was probably inside of the property line about 5'-10' because you could not see through the forest the property line stakes when standing next to the other one (about 500' apart).

He had a fit that I would mark my trees but I really think he did not want me to clean up my property, and I surely did not want to disturb his "dark forest".

I do understand the benefits of privacy but also to help reduce the fire risk, since now I can see a small portion of each neighbors house or garage.

And I also know enough that even if I clear cut my complete property, it is not a guarantee my structures will survive a wildfire event.

Reducing the fuels is sort of a comport zone only...

KC

Back in 1985 my father bought a bundle of 50 bare root cedar trees and had me plant them between the house and the road. I carefully dug out holes and replaced the soil with what he had prepared for using in the greenhouse, to give them a good head start. The trees were around 18" tall...
It didn't take long for them to get established, within a few years they had a nice privacy hedge. If I ever wanted a screen for privacy that's what I would do. They don't cost anywhere near as much as a landscaper's stock, and take a lot less time to establish a good root system and start growing.

 

[Hay Dude]

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

And dont forget to flood the neighbors basement, too. Thats part of the stepenwolfe revenge process.
Afterall,,,, he needs to be punished just for being the neighbor of an A-hole.
Dont worry about destroying his home, insurance will pay for it.....:laughing:

 

[4570Man]

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.

My neighbor complained that the dirt on my lot was washing across his driveway. How am I supposed to help that that his lot is down hill from mine and the real problem at hand is the culvert under his driveway is backing up and putting water over the driveway. I had another neighbor complain that my driveway gravel was washing in the road and made his kid wreck his bike. Am I supposed to take a street sweeper out there every time it rains?

 

[MossRoad]

My neighbor complained that the dirt on my lot was washing across his driveway. How am I supposed to help that that his lot is down hill from mine and the real problem at hand is the culvert under his driveway is backing up and putting water over the driveway. I had another neighbor complain that my driveway gravel was washing in the road and made his kid wreck his bike. Am I supposed to take a street sweeper out there every time it rains?

No different than if you have a dead tree in your yard. It falls on the neighbor's house; act of God. Unless the neighbor points it out to you that the tree is dead and you do nothing. Tree falls on neighbor's house, it's your negligence.

 

[4570Man]

No different than if you have a dead tree in your yard. It falls on the neighbor's house; act of God. Unless the neighbor points it out to you that the tree is dead and you do nothing. Tree falls on neighbor's house, it's your negligence.

A tree falling is a lot more of your or my fault than water. We can spot problem trees and deal with them. We can’t change that water falls from the sky and runs down hill.

 

[Hay Dude]

We and 3 neighbors are in a dispute with an uphill neighbor who wont clean his water ditch right now. Its incredible how our properties collect water now. At little cost to him, he could clean ditch and we would have less water problems. Instead, he is complaining that we didn’t ask him nicely, so he won’t clean it.

 

[Popgadget]

I had a neighbor behind me that was very territorial and refused to accept the actual property line as correct. This is a line about 1000 feet long through the woods with no real consequence to either of us. I got tired of his whining and asked my surveyor what it would cost to stake the corners. He asked me why, and when I told him, he suggested that I just get some stakes and flagging tape and put them a hundred feet or so on his side of the line, that would likely make him get his own survey.
I followed his advice, and never heard another word about that property line. Best free advice I ever got.

 

[Jstpssng]

I did the lines on a piece of property and noticed that the abutter's signs were obviously well onto our side of the line. I blazed just under the old spots and painted them... a few months later I went back and saw he had painted over my spots as well as the old evidence and put in an obviously curved line (in his favor) with spray paint. We sold the property not long after that and it bevame somebody else's property.

 

[ChuckT]

Neighbors can be an absolute pain. Best to get on from the start I think. As a dispute, however trivial, can cause heartburn for a long time.
Currently we have new neighbors moving in, to the north of us, sometime this month. Previous owners planted bamboo "for privacy (?) and now it's pushing the fence over. I'm going to have to approach the new to have the bamboo cut back. Severely, at lest 2 feet into their property. Ugh.