OT- property boundary issue

[bababooey]

[quote=zak]My wife has a great saying, “Don’t engage the crazy”. I simply remind you to not become the crazy people avoid engaging with.[/quote]

Not sure which side of the property line the crazy’s are located in this situation.

[no_such_reality]

How much did lawyering up cost your friends Svelte?

Also curious the OP said the neighbors had sprinlkers that sprayed their car and “( were there for a while before we bought home)” and “didn’t really have a good fence” Did it have a dilapidated fence? Chain linK? what’s the relationship from the fence to the sprinklers?

Also curious, the roses they cut? Were they yours or theirs? Or in the disputed zone that you now say is yours due to the property survey courtesy of sprinklers obviously, been in effect ‘theirs’.

As for the didn’t really have a good fence. Did it have any fence? Or is this an open side yard?

Really it just highlights challenges of unclear property boundaries.

[svelte]

[quote=no_such_reality]How much did lawyering up cost your friends Svelte?
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It’s not a topic that they like talking about for obvious reasons. They kinda grumble when discussing it.

If I can find a way to gently ask in a conversation I will, otherwise I will continue to tread lightly…

[no_such_reality]

Understandable svelte. Just curious if it was a $1000 lawyer up and find out you’re porked or $25k lawyer up fight in court/arbitration

I totally get where your friends re coming from. Everyone lived with the assumed property line for years. Including the mature landscaping the. Someone came in and said we don’t care we want an add on. And let be honest IMHO if five feet of yard is enough to prevent the add on you’re doing McMansion building and. It shed be banned IMHO add ons shudder require a minimum 20 ft set back from the property line. Original buid cud have smaller but removes should be required to maintain space. Qa 10 ft set with one story homes is very different than two story homes

One point of advice when setting a fence you may want to make sure you’re right in the line if code allows or basically set it five feet back as you are still responsible for maintaining landscape on the other side if its your property

Of course when you put up a fence you can decide which way the finished face faces. I’ve seen people install them and put the nice finished face towed as their own house and not the neighbors.

[NotCranky]

Not sure I follow all this but if the fence makes any sense do it. if the irrigation is on your side of the fence just dig in there and cap it off for now. If their irrigation is crazy and they don’t adjust for your new fence the fence is going to get damaged or wear out form all the water, so keep that in mind with the fence.

I think they just took the plumeria down to say that if the can’t have it no one can. You probably have a chance to get through this with out major trouble if you are patient and take it in small steps.

Sorry if I am off on some things. I want to be helpful and have a similar struggle going on but don’t want to read the whole thread.

[Former SD resident]

[quote=no_such_reality]How much did lawyering up cost your friends Svelte?

Also curious the OP said the neighbors had sprinlkers that sprayed their car and “( were there for a while before we bought home)” and “didn’t really have a good fence” Did it have a dilapidated fence? Chain linK? what’s the relationship from the fence to the sprinklers?

Also curious, the roses they cut? Were they yours or theirs? Or in the disputed zone that you now say is yours due to the property survey courtesy of sprinklers obviously, been in effect ‘theirs’.

As for the didn’t really have a good fence. Did it have any fence? Or is this an open side yard?

Really it just highlights challenges of unclear property boundaries.[/quote]

When we purchased home there was a planter approx 3 feet wide with 3 nice red rose bushed and other plants along whole drive way. The planter was bordered on one side by our drive way and the other side has a nice cement border (not cheapie Home Depot by the foot ones). We figured the planter was ours and that the cement border was the divider. After we moved in found that the sprinkler in the rose planter was neighbors. Completed a survey and found that property line went another 2ft past planter.

Initially we weren’t going to do anything but the sprinklers became a nuisance. Then one day they came out and chopped off all roses (this was before we said or did anything). Was asked if they could move or cap sprinklers. Neighbor told hubby roses were his mothers so sentimental to him (I call bs on that, they must have 10 other roses bushes in front yard, if they were so important why wouldn’t you plant them in our yard front and center, not on neighbors by driveway). Hubby said we didn’t want to really change anything and that they were welcome to leave roses bushes there. Then within a week they ripped out everything. We then planted more 3 more rose bushes and they all mysteriously died.

Several other things have happened since and we just want it to end. Now our game plan is to clear everything we can within our property line and put up a nice border white picket fence. Several other neighbors have a similar fence so it fits with neighborhood. Then wait a little for dust to settle and plant new plants.

We’ve tried the avoiding game, but it’s not working. Hope the fence puts an end to it once and for all.

[Former SD resident]

[quote=Blogstar]Not sure I follow all this but if the fence makes any sense do it. if the irrigation is on your side of the fence just dig in there and cap it off for now. If their irrigation is crazy and they don’t adjust for your new fence the fence is going to get damaged or wear out form all the water, so keep that in mind with the fence.

I think they just took the plumeria down to say that if the can’t have it no one can. You probably have a chance to get through this with out major trouble if you are patient and take it in small steps.

Sorry if I am off on some things. I want to be helpful and have a similar struggle going on but don’t want to read the whole thread.[/quote]

The sprinklers are gone and we are going to put in new ones on our side once fence goes up. We are going with white vinyl so water shouldn’t be a problem.

Think you are right with plumeria. The trunk is on our side. They cut off everything on OUR side so the tree now completely leans to their side but we get the trunk. We need to take off another large branch that bows out to our side them curves to theirs, so we can put in fence as close to property line as possible

I agree all the things they’ve done are trivial, but taken together it’s just too much for us. How long are we suppose to put up with neighbors, stripping rose bushes, spraying your car with water, killing grass and other plants, mangling trees, shinning bright lights at your house, dumping water in yard, etc…

Hope you’re able to resolve your situation soon and peacefully. Life’s too short for this crap.

[svelte]

[quote=zak] My wife has a great saying, “Don’t engage the crazy”. I simply remind you to not become the crazy people avoid engaging with.[/quote]

Don’t engage the crazies.

I’m stealing that line. Thank your wife for me.

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