Harris County, GA
My neighbor has been and issue from day one. The very first day I met my neighbor was the July of 2008. He was overly friendly and slightly pushy about wanting to use my land like he done with the previous owner. After telling the previous owner of the neighbor’s weird behavior, he warned me of the land violations and hostile nature of the neighbor while he was living there. This hostile nature rises in the neighbor when he does not get his way, in other words he is a bully.
The first event of conflict was when I choose to finish a privacy fence the previous owner put up( around labor day). I knew that the neighbor had a small child and another one on the way. Since I own five horses I wanted to maintain safety at all times. To eliminate an issue, I located the property corners, in which I found and photographed all of them expect one. The closest pin to his house and I didn’t locate it at first glance. There was an old cattle fence maintaining the property line already so I followed that as a guide line and replace it with the continued privacy fence. The neighbor saw me looking for the rebar corner and said that he had never seen it. He pointed that it must be under the concrete that the corner post was in. I knew that was not true because a land surveyor had located it a year before (the concrete had been there for at more than five years). (I once was a surveyor team chief) So I came back with my metal detector and found the rebar marker nearly a 1 ½ closer to neighbor’s side. The rebar was pounded below the surface at least four inches. I knew he would not be happy about this. Marked the rebar with paint and flagged it with surveyor’s tape.
I put the fence up with friends from work I briefly explained the situation, they helped knowing that the neighbor was a bully that if I alone he would cause issues as he did with the previous owner. During the fencing building, the only comments from him were, “that is would raise his property value”. Shortly after the construction of five hundred feet of fence was complete the resulting problems started. (So much for fences makes good neighbors, Robert Frost)
Within a month of the fence being complete the neighbor started putting a shelter up for his “hay”. During the construction of this shelter his worker stood on my 6 feet tall fence to hammer in nails into the rafters. The shelter was less than 16 inches away from my fence. My wife and I yelled at his worker to get off the fence and he complied, but in ten minutes he was right back on there. We called the sheriff department and filled a report. The building inspector was contacted and he filed a claim against him for building too close the property line. After a lengthy court case they ruled in his favor, since his building quote… “was a type of structure was not covered in the zoning laws”. So the structure/ shelter stayed and when it rains, his shelter allows the rain water to pour over my fence which is causing damages to my land as a runoff. During the dispute with the shelter the neighbor kicked the property corners in toward my side the property. I noticed this when I went to photograph the worker standing on my fence, the neighbor in question also in plain view said “this is the way you wanted this is the way it’s going to be”. When I asked what that meant he said you should have thought about that before you chose to go this way. That’s when I noticed the property corners again one was taken completely out and the other kicked in nearly two inches. I called the sheriff and report the violation. Once again with little results, the same quote “you have to go to civil court this is a civil matter. Which I do not understand it was not a criminal act, he stole a marker of my property.
My neighbor has been and issue from day one. The very first day I met my neighbor was the July of 2008. He was overly friendly and slightly pushy about wanting to use my land like he done with the previous owner. After telling the previous owner of the neighbor’s weird behavior, he warned me of the land violations and hostile nature of the neighbor while he was living there. This hostile nature rises in the neighbor when he does not get his way, in other words he is a bully.
The first event of conflict was when I choose to finish a privacy fence the previous owner put up( around labor day). I knew that the neighbor had a small child and another one on the way. Since I own five horses I wanted to maintain safety at all times. To eliminate an issue, I located the property corners, in which I found and photographed all of them expect one. The closest pin to his house and I didn’t locate it at first glance. There was an old cattle fence maintaining the property line already so I followed that as a guide line and replace it with the continued privacy fence. The neighbor saw me looking for the rebar corner and said that he had never seen it. He pointed that it must be under the concrete that the corner post was in. I knew that was not true because a land surveyor had located it a year before (the concrete had been there for at more than five years). (I once was a surveyor team chief) So I came back with my metal detector and found the rebar marker nearly a 1 ½ closer to neighbor’s side. The rebar was pounded below the surface at least four inches. I knew he would not be happy about this. Marked the rebar with paint and flagged it with surveyor’s tape.
I put the fence up with friends from work I briefly explained the situation, they helped knowing that the neighbor was a bully that if I alone he would cause issues as he did with the previous owner. During the fencing building, the only comments from him were, “that is would raise his property value”. Shortly after the construction of five hundred feet of fence was complete the resulting problems started. (So much for fences makes good neighbors, Robert Frost)
Within a month of the fence being complete the neighbor started putting a shelter up for his “hay”. During the construction of this shelter his worker stood on my 6 feet tall fence to hammer in nails into the rafters. The shelter was less than 16 inches away from my fence. My wife and I yelled at his worker to get off the fence and he complied, but in ten minutes he was right back on there. We called the sheriff department and filled a report. The building inspector was contacted and he filed a claim against him for building too close the property line. After a lengthy court case they ruled in his favor, since his building quote… “was a type of structure was not covered in the zoning laws”. So the structure/ shelter stayed and when it rains, his shelter allows the rain water to pour over my fence which is causing damages to my land as a runoff. During the dispute with the shelter the neighbor kicked the property corners in toward my side the property. I noticed this when I went to photograph the worker standing on my fence, the neighbor in question also in plain view said “this is the way you wanted this is the way it’s going to be”. When I asked what that meant he said you should have thought about that before you chose to go this way. That’s when I noticed the property corners again one was taken completely out and the other kicked in nearly two inches. I called the sheriff and report the violation. Once again with little results, the same quote “you have to go to civil court this is a civil matter. Which I do not understand it was not a criminal act, he stole a marker of my property.
