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I bought a home two years ago and we share a driveway with our neighbors. She parks at the top and I park behind my house at the top and to the right. I need to put up a retaining wall to stop our yard from washing down the driveway. We got an estimate to have the driveway paved at the same time (it is currently so bad only SUVs can go up it, there are broken concrete slabs running the entire length of it) and her cost is much less because she just parks at the top. She sent her 8 year old daughter over to tell us it was the people we bought the house from that ruined the driveway and they were not paying anything, ever, to fix the driveway. Since then a huge portion of the driveway has washed away where she parks and there is exposed rock now. I MUST pave the drive but am irate that she'll get to use it at no cost.
Is there a way to either force her to pay for her half or better yet a way for me to pave it and then exclude her from using it all together because she won't participate in mutual upkeep?
I bought a home two years ago and we share a driveway with our neighbors. She parks at the top and I park behind my house at the top and to the right. I need to put up a retaining wall to stop our yard from washing down the driveway. We got an estimate to have the driveway paved at the same time (it is currently so bad only SUVs can go up it, there are broken concrete slabs running the entire length of it) and her cost is much less because she just parks at the top. She sent her 8 year old daughter over to tell us it was the people we bought the house from that ruined the driveway and they were not paying anything, ever, to fix the driveway. Since then a huge portion of the driveway has washed away where she parks and there is exposed rock now. I MUST pave the drive but am irate that she'll get to use it at no cost.
Is there a way to either force her to pay for her half or better yet a way for me to pave it and then exclude her from using it all together because she won't participate in mutual upkeep?