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Hello All,
I'm dealing with a neighbor from hell.
I've lived at my current home for 21 years. The home next door has changed hands several times. The current owner is a nightmare and I do believe mentally unbalanced.
I really don't know where to begin with all this. It's a long story, but the bottom line is that this man (and his children, guests, etc.) refuses to stay off my property. I've had the police out several times about this. They issue verbal warnings to him. He'll heed their warnings for a while, but eventually I catch him back over here again.
He's destroyed two circular flower beds that I have in my side yard and stolen flowers from them.
One year he cut down a 50 foot tree and laid it across my side yard all the way into my driveway. I had to contact the police to get him to remove it.
His kids have run in back of my car as I'm backing out several times. I've had to shoo a toddler that was living there from in back of the car on several occassions. I told him I was afraid of hitting one of them and to please keep them out of my yard. Again, he'll comply for a few days or weeks. Then they're back over here running across my property again. His kids have invited other neighborhood kids into my yard for ball games. I've had the police to talk to him and his kids and tell them my yard isn't a park. His kids don't respect boundaries because he doesn't.
His trees extend onto my property and he refuses to maintain them, so I incur the expense of maintaining them. He's even gone as far as running his lawn mower over leaves in my yard (from his trees mind you) in an attempt to stop the wind from blowing them into his yard. He doesn't bother to rake or suck the leaves up and the ground up leaves make the yard look a mess. I hire a lawn service to remove the leaves every year. He knows this. I've asked him not to mow, mulch, or come into my yard. He'll abide for a while and then he's right back at it again. He's fixated on my property and refuses to leave me and my yard alone.
When I first tried talking to him about staying off my property his response was, "A yard is just a yard to me!" He's crazy and there is no reasoning with him. He just refuses to stay on his side of the property line, which is clearly marked. If I put a fence up, I know he'll only destroy it. He's very destructive.
He's destroyed another neighbor's fence. He cut down another 50 foot tree that crashed into another neighbor's fence, as well as his own garage, destroying both. He's never bothered to fix this neighbor's fence or his garage. Both are eyesores. His whole property is an eyesore--torn down rain gutters (lying in the yard and driveway), a house in bad need of painting, garbage strewn all over the place, and the demolished garage you can see clear through. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Ultimately, I know I have to move to get away from this madman and I'm working on it. Right now money is tight, and I have to get into a better financial position before moving, which is another reason I don't want to pay for erecting a fence.
I'd like to know if I can prosecute this man for trespasssing or get a restraining order on him blocking him from my property.
This whole thing is way old. I'm tired of this man and want him to go away once and for all.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I've never had this problem with any previous owners of the home. The boundary line is clearly marked.
Hello All,
I'm dealing with a neighbor from hell.
I've lived at my current home for 21 years. The home next door has changed hands several times. The current owner is a nightmare and I do believe mentally unbalanced.
I really don't know where to begin with all this. It's a long story, but the bottom line is that this man (and his children, guests, etc.) refuses to stay off my property. I've had the police out several times about this. They issue verbal warnings to him. He'll heed their warnings for a while, but eventually I catch him back over here again.
He's destroyed two circular flower beds that I have in my side yard and stolen flowers from them.
One year he cut down a 50 foot tree and laid it across my side yard all the way into my driveway. I had to contact the police to get him to remove it.
His kids have run in back of my car as I'm backing out several times. I've had to shoo a toddler that was living there from in back of the car on several occassions. I told him I was afraid of hitting one of them and to please keep them out of my yard. Again, he'll comply for a few days or weeks. Then they're back over here running across my property again. His kids have invited other neighborhood kids into my yard for ball games. I've had the police to talk to him and his kids and tell them my yard isn't a park. His kids don't respect boundaries because he doesn't.
His trees extend onto my property and he refuses to maintain them, so I incur the expense of maintaining them. He's even gone as far as running his lawn mower over leaves in my yard (from his trees mind you) in an attempt to stop the wind from blowing them into his yard. He doesn't bother to rake or suck the leaves up and the ground up leaves make the yard look a mess. I hire a lawn service to remove the leaves every year. He knows this. I've asked him not to mow, mulch, or come into my yard. He'll abide for a while and then he's right back at it again. He's fixated on my property and refuses to leave me and my yard alone.
When I first tried talking to him about staying off my property his response was, "A yard is just a yard to me!" He's crazy and there is no reasoning with him. He just refuses to stay on his side of the property line, which is clearly marked. If I put a fence up, I know he'll only destroy it. He's very destructive.
He's destroyed another neighbor's fence. He cut down another 50 foot tree that crashed into another neighbor's fence, as well as his own garage, destroying both. He's never bothered to fix this neighbor's fence or his garage. Both are eyesores. His whole property is an eyesore--torn down rain gutters (lying in the yard and driveway), a house in bad need of painting, garbage strewn all over the place, and the demolished garage you can see clear through. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Ultimately, I know I have to move to get away from this madman and I'm working on it. Right now money is tight, and I have to get into a better financial position before moving, which is another reason I don't want to pay for erecting a fence.
I'd like to know if I can prosecute this man for trespasssing or get a restraining order on him blocking him from my property.
This whole thing is way old. I'm tired of this man and want him to go away once and for all.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I've never had this problem with any previous owners of the home. The boundary line is clearly marked.