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[pixeltwistr]

What is the name of your state? N.C.

We moved into a duplex 2 weeks ago.... a family moved into the other half of the duplex 2 days after we did. Before we ever moved in we told the landlord we had a dog and exactly where we planned to chain him up at ( next to a detached garage which is to be for our use only) she though that was a good spot. There is approx a half acre of land here...neighbor has 5 kids and first day he moved in asked us to move the dog so his kids could play there...(his chain reaches about 3 feet into the edge of the back yard and goes into our garage) My husband went out and bought a 2 foot shorter chain but the guy still isn't happy...he want us to keep the dog chained up INSIDE the garage! today he threatened to kill him with a rock. My daughter is very attached to her dog how do I keep this guy from killing her pet...we can't keep him inside all the time. Also the first day this guy moved in he hooked up his cable to ours...he tried to hook up to our phone but I don't have one installed. Also him and his wife keep throwing their trash bags in our driveway...(we have to pay for trash pickup) and the other day we saw a snake in the yard (a harmless grass snake that eats rats you know) and an hour later we go out in the yard and the guy is pouring gasoline all over the back yard...to kill the snake he said....more lioke kill us when the fire gets going geesh! To top all of this off...below our apartment there is another garage with an office like room in it...well I guess the landlord told him he could use that garage but all of the electricity to that area below us runs from our electric meter....does she have a right to give him use of space that we have to pay the electric on? I would just turn off the breakers down there but they also run my refridgerator oven tv etc...its not on separate breakers. If he is allowed access to that area he could run an extension cord and power his whole place and since he already stoled cable Im sure he would do that...also there is a basket ball hoop attached to my dining room wall just above this garage and he wants to play basketball....hello I don't need to hear a basketball bouncing off my wall all day....isn't there something in the law about the right to a peaceful place to live or something like that do I have to alow him to slam a basketball off my dining room wall while I try to homeschool my daughter and do my work(I work at home) Whenever I have lived in a duplex before the side you rent is your side I don't understand why they have to have access to our side at all. We tried to talk to the guy but he says he can do what he want cause he pays rent here....well so do WE...I haven't seen the landlord yet but I would like to get an idea of my rights before i talk to her so i know what i can and can't ask for.
thanks pixeltwistr

 

[LindaP777]

Time to get the landlord involved. Tell him/her everything you just told us.
You do have the right to peace and quite.
You do not have to pay for the electric your neighbor is using.
If your dog is part of your lease, you are entitled to keep it (especially if the LL said it was OK to keep it where it's tied up), but keep in mind, the neighbor also has the right to peace & quite if the dog barks a lot or barks threateningly at his children.
Call the cable company and report him (isn't this considered a felony???)
Ask the LL to attach a basketball hoop to his side of the house, so he'll shot hoops against his wall & not yours.
Good luck.

 

[pixeltwistr]

Time to get the landlord involved. Tell him/her everything you just told us.
You do have the right to peace and quite.
You do not have to pay for the electric your neighbor is using.
If your dog is part of your lease, you are entitled to keep it (especially if the LL said it was OK to keep it where it's tied up), but keep in mind, the neighbor also has the right to peace & quite if the dog barks a lot or barks threateningly at his children.
Call the cable company and report him (isn't this considered a felony???)
Ask the LL to attach a basketball hoop to his side of the house, so he'll shot hoops against his wall & not yours.
Good luck.

I plan to call the landlord in the next day or 2 but I just wanted to know which rights I was corect about and wgich ones I wasn't so that whwn I talk to her I am sure I am within my rights.
as for the elecric I guess she told him he could use that space before any of us even moved in...is it possible she just doesn't know it runs on our electric? I just don't see how she could not know that as we are not her first tenants...she has had several here before. But he keeps insisting on going down there and we keep telling him to stay out but he says she told him he could have that space. It is just a garage with a very dirty room in it but the electric is on our bill so even though we arent using it we don't want him to because of the electric...I just don't see why she would tell him he could use space that runs on my electric in the first place.

The dog ONLY barks when his kids throw sticks and rocks at him...when they play on the other part of the yard he just lays there....and due to the fact that #1 there are 4 kids under the age of 5 and they just shove them out the back door and stay in the house with the blinds closed.. and #2 the kids throw sticks and rocks at him...if he were ever to get loose he would probably bite one of them yeah.

The cable company was here and knows about him hooking it up...the guy just cut up all the wires so he couldn't rehook it up, and yes it is against the law but i guess someone would have to press charges..probably the cable company i think since that is who he is stealing it from. But to me I think the fact that he already stole cable from us validates my opinion that he would possible use the lower garage are to steal electric from us ...hence my unwillingness to allow him access.

I thought of telling him to put up a hoop on his side but...the house is built on a steep slope wherin his side is fairly level and on grass and our side is like a second story with the garage underneath and paved in cement....he has no cement on his side to put a hoop at...only a dirt driveway.

Im afraid the landlord will think I am being petty about the basketball hoop but aside from the fact that to allow them access to our side of the house the dog would have to be locked in a garage with no electricity running to it where it can get up 120 degrees; can you imagine having to hear that ball all day.

Thanks again
Pixeltwistr