Problem with neighbour - what would YOU do?

[OranguTrump]

Hey kids - dilemma time, involving next door neighbour (a renter) vs me (my house of 25+ years, I own it).

Guy next door locks his gate, so we have no access to 1 side of our house. We've had minor issues over past few years with asking him to open so we could have workers in to do siding, etc. He "forgets".

He piles garbage, cut down bushes/trees, etc. right up onto the side of my house - I asked (told) him last time, nicely, that I owned this property & please not to pile shit up against the side of my house. Reminded him that we've had access issues (which we've never yelled or screamed about) BUT this piling shit against my house MUST stop.

This morning I go out for a nice stretch & yawn - he's got 20 foot line pile of brush & cut vegetation PILED AGAINST THE SIDE OF MY FUCKING HOUSE!!!

I'm pissed - the Mrs doesn't want any neighbour grief & says I should just wait until I see him and ask nicely.

I want to menacingly tell him to move his shit & this is LAST time I ask nicely. I could kick his ass, np, and my beast son could throw his skinny ass kid about 30 feet.

Do I,

A: Wait, smile, ask nicely & NOT push it?

B: Knock on his door & tell him to move his shit - with a "last warning" thrown in?

C: ???

Add your own thoughts - I'm in serious need of some advice

 

[_tessarecting]

B if it was me

 

[stoned-trout]

re pile all of it by his front door....yeehaw

 

[FireIn.TheSky]

Rent a bulldozer, knock down his house, problem solved.

 

[Green Squall]

Calmly tell him that if he can't follow the rules then he should start to look for another place to rent. Remind him how lenient you've been in the past and that you don't appreciate the blatant disrespect.

 

[stoned-trout]

and for gods sake get a set of picks to open locked gates... I have a full lockpick kit and a handy tool also called a quick pick....yeehaw

 

[mr.brunch]

You have tried being courteous and polite, you have asked him directly not to pile rubbish against your house and he has blatantly ignored you.
I would, personally, now contact his landlord.... As a tenant he will have terms and conditions of tenancy.

Ten years ago I would have said kick his ass into line, but that just causes extra headache for you in the long run.

 

[OranguTrump]

re pile all of it by his front door....yeehaw

I said this to Mrs. - if I'd piled shit up, on the property he rents, knowing that he'd asked me NOT to, he'd lose his fucking mind.

I'm done with this clown - this is LAST time he dicks me around, but I have to consider the other person who owns 1/2 of our property.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[Green Squall]

Wait a minute. Is this dude a tenant or just a guy renting a house next to you?

 

[Monty Zoomer]

Hmmm...not enough info from your post to understand just what the hell is going on.

Do you have some kind of deeded right to go through his gate to get to your property?

It seems like the piling of his crap against your house is total BS. If that's been going on for a while, I don't understand why you haven't put a stop to it.

If it was me, I'd pursue it through legal action, and not do anything rash that'll cause problems in resolving it. Ass-kicking talk will bring you a quick trip to the gray-bar hotel.

 

[OranguTrump]

and for gods sake get a set of picks to open locked gates... I have a full lockpick kit and a handy tool also called a quick pick....yeehaw

I have bolt cutters - they were ready the last time asshole "forgot" to leave gate unlocked so our workers could get in there.

The owner showed up right as we were going to cut the lock - he opened it - but expressed real issue with us cutting the lock. Apparently HIS property is sacrosanct & forcing our way in illegal - but my accessing the part I own & my specific instructions to his tenant are between me and him.

There must be a lesson learned here - a fence down his driveway taking back the foot of my property I cannot access or control will mean that he loses 1/3 of the driveway (property lines are irregular here, I have same thing on my other side where my driveway sits 6" on other neighbours property).

 

[OranguTrump]

Wait a minute. Is this dude a tenant or just a guy renting a house next to you?

He rents the house next to me - not my tenant, but it's my property that he's using to store his garbage.

 

[OranguTrump]

Hmmm...not enough info from your post to understand just what the hell is going on.

Do you have some kind of deeded right to go through his gate to get to your property?

It seems like the piling of his crap against your house is total BS. If that's been going on for a while, I don't understand why you haven't put a stop to it.

If it was me, I'd pursue it through legal action, and not do anything rash that'll cause problems in resolving it. Ass-kicking talk will bring you a quick trip to the gray-bar hotel.

The property lines are askew - I own a portion of his driveway, they put up a fence/locked gate on their driveway, so I can't get to the side of my house to paint, clean, etc.

This tenant apparently suffers from memory loss, as I have been very specific, to his face, that his habit of piling garbage, etc. on my property and literally right against my house IS NOT OK & I do not want it to happen again.

So here I am - again.

 

[billy_big_bud!]

my solution involves a can of gas and a zippo with no prints on it...you tell me another practical solution for under $5?

 

[Monty Zoomer]

The property lines are askew - I own a portion of his driveway, they put up a fence/locked gate on their driveway, so I can't get to the side of my house to paint, clean, etc.

This tenant apparently suffers from memory loss, as I have been very specific, to his face, that his habit of piling garbage, etc. on my property and literally right against my house IS NOT OK & I do not want it to happen again.

So here I am - again.

Are there easement agreements?

My driveway comes across a deeded easement along one side of my neighbor's place. The neighbors never liked it that I controlled 60' of land along a quarter mile of their property, even though the easement was in place when they bought their land.

Years back, they were out plowing right up onto my driveway and using it to turn around. They were heaving up big rocks and tearing up my gravel. They also wanted to run a fence right up to the edge of my driveway, not leaving me room to plow, grade and maintain drainage.

I took it up with the bitchy neighbor woman, and she told me "that's just how we do it around here". I told her in no uncertain terms that there was a deeded easement, and that stretch of land was for my use, not theirs, that they needed to stay off it and forget about the fence. End of discussion.

They wound up building their fence and doing their farming, on their side of the easement. No more problems.

 

[OranguTrump]

Are there easement agreements?

My driveway comes across a deeded easement along one side of my neighbor's place. The neighbors never liked it that I controlled 60' of land along a quarter mile of their property, even though the easement was in place when they bought their land.

Years back, they were out plowing right up onto my driveway and using it to turn around. They were heaving up big rocks and tearing up my gravel. They also wanted to run a fence right up to the edge of my driveway, not leaving me room to plow, grade and maintain drainage.

I took it up with the bitchy neighbor woman, and she told me "that's just how we do it around here". I told her in no uncertain terms that there was a deeded easement, and that stretch of land was for my use, not theirs, that they needed to stay off it and forget about the fence. End of discussion.

They wound up building their fence and doing their farming, on their side of the easement. No more problems.

In our area, residential easements not really a thing - property lines are the control point and enforced municipally. My access to my property is encumbered by the new gated fence, but I've not made a big stink about it - figured asking politely would keep my legal rights respected. Wrong!

The garbage, etc. piled against the structure of my house, using my property to store waste products, etc. against my express wishes is intolerable.

It must end, how I am able to communicate this to next door clown is my problem.

 

[FireIn.TheSky]

Why not just hire a lawyer and bring him to court? Let the court summons do the talking. In the US if you are summonsed to court and don't show up they issue a warrant for your arrest.

 

[Monty Zoomer]

If it were me, I'd talk with an attorney.

If there's some kind of historical use that provides access in order to prevent a landowner from being landlocked, courts will generally treat it as a de-facto easement. It sounds like that's the situation that both you and the neighboring property owner are in. Neither one of you will likely legally be allowed to cut off the other's access.

No doubt that him piling his crap on your place is illegal.

 

[Bud Green]

First of all, get in there and take plenty of pictures, from all different angles, of the shit he has piled up against the wall of your house.

Be sure there are identifying object in the photos. (the heat pump, electric service conduit, unusual bricks or siding or windows)

Then handle it how you want. By yourself or with the law..

Personally, I would tell him in direct words that you want his shit removed immediately, and that if he continues to do it that you will be contacting the local judge...
There is no reason whatsoever for you to put up with this crap...

 

[Slipnot]

Well first of all there are a few ways of going about it there is such thing as a property line.
Usually the the fence is in between if you put up the fence on your property then the neighbor cannot attach anything to it you can sue him if he does .

So i do not understand for one how he has to keep some gate unlocked /?? there should be your gate and his gate but what ever

Secondly you been going at this right , being patient and polite ,, maybe its time to wake him up and say WTF is wrong with you i told you numerious times to keep your shit off my property..
take pictures get a lawyer get him to write a formal intent to sue , or call you local by law office and explain ..
they be glad i am sure to give him 500 dollar ticket make his life a living hell by costing him
Or sneak up behind him and give him the pet rose swing to the back of the head with that base ball bat he won't remember a thing ever again use the brush that he has on ground to back track and get rid of any tracks use a hairnet and gloves
problem solved