He has bullied one elderly man, I hate to say it but the elderly man (allegedly) put him in his place. How that happened I don’t know but I was told the guy was threatening and crowding the older man. He now uses the road. The older man was clearly establish on the original short easement , his dad built it! I don’t talk with the elderly man because it pains him, all this trouble. I think we are o.k we would talk to each other but I know my involvement with him in this , even though we were getting along o.k. has strained him at times and I will not do that again. I have a lot of friends /allies in the neighborhood but none of them have a stake in the easement section where their is trouble.To tell you the truth though the neighborhood is really dysfunctional! Lots of fighting, reporting, fearing, maybe hating!
Only two people who actually use the easement have been directly involved with making trouble. The original one did everything in their power to stop me from getting the easement for years until I finally did. Once I got it they tried to get me in trouble with the county for grading my road on my property to connect through …or maybe the woman with the garage did.(did a light bulb go on?) That grading issue was a big fight but I won with the help of Dianne Jacobs with no real damages and without going to court. These two are working together. I am pretty sure when I go out there the one with the better vantage point calls the bully.
The most troublesome one is the guy that is really harassing me when I go out there. He is the one who bought away from an owner I was on very good terms with, who possibly sold in part because of these other parties. I pretty sure he was under similar kinds of harassment and being scared by the never substantiated often officially rebuked threat of environmental issues.
One person who keeps bringing the environmental thing up doesn’t own or use the easement but has the garage very near the property line , or if what I was recently told is true, actually in the easement.
I loathe court proceedings, my wife even mores so, but this will not stop, everybody knows it. If the physical stuff does, stop because of police calls or whatever, they will do something else.
Trying to work up the nerve to call the litigators, talk to a few anyway. I am trying to learn a little bit so there is less chance by getting ripped off by a lawyer. They might have some ideas…and help convince me of one course of action over another….
Mediation is not binding, but shows good faith and hopefully really is done in good faith . Some people use it to get something they don’t deserve. I believe I would have to give up something I should not have to if mediation were to be “successful”. Basically cooperate with extortsion with no guarantee that the harassment(s) won’t continue. That’s my take on mediation.
