No, not at all. His driveway is physically twice as wide as mine. I can park two cars side by side, he can park four.

My driveway is five feet from the property line, while his driveway is up to the property line. When I step out of my car I'm five feet from the property line; When he steps out of his truck he's on my property. To make matters even worse, any time he pulls out his lawn mower or garbage can, he uses my property to move it around his truck.

Half of the bushes he removed and both trees were on my property...

I can't put a fence, and why should I pay to have my bushes replaced when he removed them?

I'm sorry, but this is ghetto to me. I look outside my front door and I see a big ass truck and pallets.

Your missing something here. It's only the government that can do this. Usually it's the HOA who does this, and usually over something as minor such as not cutting your grass often enough.

Oh wait, I forgot the best part. I signed off on this.

Being as we are in a HOA, he had to filed paperwork and get it approved by the neighbors. I signed off on and approved a diagram of a little sidewalk that was three feet wide, going from his driveway to the back yard. Instead, he doubled the width of his driveway.

What's even better is after all of this, he had the balls to come to me and ask me to sign off on "improvements" on the other side of his property including an RV gate - that side of his yard backs up to the street, and clearly he wanted to add yet more parking. In fact, he didn't have the balls to come to me but instead sent his nineteen year old daughter. I'm a nice guy and I don't have a temper, but I can quickly raise my voice like a drill instructor. He won't be sending his kid around to do his dirty work any more.

You should go live out in the woods and get some land. You stress out of very small things. So what if he has to step on to your grass. Wow so you see a truck when you look out the side of your house. I would have shot you by now if you were my neighbor. You made them rip up about 12 inches of concrete because it came too close to the property line. You are lucky I don't live next to you I would be doing things just to upset you more. You are lucky, I would put a lot more than palets on side of the house to upset you.

you yelled at his daughter. you are not just a dick but an asshole.

It's simply proof that you don't actually own land in America; You are renting it from the government.

Read about the fall of the roman empire. You are basically watching it happen in real time.

people of america... you are fucked if they do this!

Get a fucking life.

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If you had somewhere to go besides sitting on your ass at home all day you would
have never even noticed it.

How did he get away with that?

Seems to me that you could have sued him for that.

Anyway...

I would have kept the lawyers out of it and offered the guy the following deal:

1) He get's to keep his entire paved driveway. No need to remove anything
2) In return, he replaces the bushes and trees he removed from your property with new ones of equal size. Have him toss two or three extras in for good measure. No fucking twigs, they gotta be as big as the ones he removed.

Problem solved (or at least mitigated). Right?
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I only see it when I leave the house.

I don't care what any of you think. I walk outside my house and I see someone else's garbage.

If you want to see garbage look in the mirror. Yelling at a young girl and being an asshole neighbor.

Pay your fucking bills or STFU; pretty simple.

That's American freedom.

You're the worst kind of human being :2 cents:

You mean, responsible?

I mean unsympathetic, ignorant, and a person who has not one care for his fellow man.

$836 dollars, damn there must have not been to many bidders.

I'm sympathetic for the elderly who live on a fixed income. If some gov aid/social worker would have taken some time to get involved, they could have found a way to help her out

He lied to me, he destroyed bushes on my property, removed trees on my property, violated HOA rules, violated city laws, and turned a two car driveway into a commercial parking lot so his renter could run illegally run a business with a dozen employees out of his garage.

Your right, I'm an asshole.

Rochard,

Am I right in thinking that you hated this guy before any of this? i.e. this isn't what you'd do to any random neighbor

Why should he care for people who don't care for themselves?

you are because what probably happened was he removed bushes that were mostly on his side of the property line, he expanded his drive way 1 foot too far and I know this because he only has a strip of gravel that is about 1 foot long. Aren't you running an illegal home based business to but he hasn't turned you in yet. If he was running a business the asshole neighbor you are would have reported him and then there would have been no need for the additional parking. He very likely has a large family and you just a busy Betsy neighbor.

not everyone is meant to be a home owner. there is no shame in renting if you can't afford your own house.

While I agree 100% that everyone should be responsible and pay their bills, I also know that people get laid off, fired, sick, in an accident, or any other of things that can happen to people to cause them to fall behind on their bills, many of which is beyond their control, especially the elderly or those living alone without many friends or family.

Fast forward in life and you're 80 years old. You're alone. You keep up on your bills but somehow you made a mistake OR you simply didn't have enough money to pay your SEWAGE bill, due to whatever reason, and you lost your house of 49 years over it. 40 years of being responsible, 40 eyars of doimng everything right, then one slip of $400 causes you to lose everything.

Sorry man, that is just not right. And it can happen to anyone, at any time. There should be restrictions to what can be done in situations like this. It's not like she didn't pay her mortgage payment for several months or a year. She didn't pay her sewer bill.

How dare Obama and the liberals do this to hard working Americans? :1orglaugh

Yeah right, repossessing of property based on tax liens started in Jan 2009.

:1orglaugh

No one is losing their home for being late on property taxes/sewer bill once.

I don't care if he cares, but telling people who are in trouble to STFU is low. It is typical baddog behavior.

err, thats how it SHOULD be ... google "deutsche bank & robo-signing" and you will see its not always lawful how people loose their homes over small rates (which they actually are ABLE TO PAY in many - if not most - cases)

lol what a moronic statement

you have fun at work today kid ?

I personally think it's one of the worst things ever.

You basically NEVER own your home and property.

The govt. can always take it from you for not paying property taxes. So if you are an elderly person living on a fixed income and can't pay your property tax...doesn't matter if you paid off your mortgage 20 years ago and have lived in "your" home all your life. The govt. is going to TAKE it. :(

Why should you not pay property tax just because the home is paid for? The tax is not a sales tax.

The homeowner is an Italian man named Tony. I love all things Italian really. He also owns the house behind the rental house. Frankly, he was just one of the neighbors I talked on occasionally when I walked me dog or during one of the little parties our street throws a few times a year. He came over to my house to ask me to sign off on the HOA form and I was all for it; I was all for home improvements.

I didn't know the renter until after he had moved in and was running a business from the garage.

The new renter is nice. Works from home but has zero impact on the community, and I never hear a peep from him. He's just a bit messy.

I think your just being bitter and nasty.

I have a business license, am not breaking any zoning laws, and I have zero impact on the community by working at home.

The prior renter was completely different. At 7am they opened up the garage door and ran it like a commercial business - turned on the radio, had six to eight employees show up, filling up my street with their cars, they had breakfast together, woke us up every morning, and then blocked up the street while they hitched up trailers to small pick up trucks and loaded up up with gear. I never complained about any of this, even though my landscaper could never park his truck and trailer in front of my house, and also that at least once or twice a week I was blocked in and unable to leave my house because of their trucks being loaded. Everyone else on the street was furious about this, being as they are the first house on the street and you must pass his house to get in or out.

The new neighbor works from home, makes a trip down to customs once a week in his big truck to pick up his product, which he then sells online through his website. He's a bit messy, but renters always are. I never hear a peep out of him.

I'm pissed at the homeowner because I like my house and take a small amount of pride in my yard. I used to walk out and it looked nice - trees and bushes. Now I walk outside my house and I see gravel and weeds and wooden pallets and his truck. I used to like my front yard. Now it's ugly.

And what pisses me off the most is that this guy was there for less than a year. This is my "forever home", and for the next twenty years I'll be looking at his electric meter instead of bushes and trees.

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Can anyone guess how many bankers responsible for recent finical crisis lost their homes?

The same amount that were charged with the crimes they committed.

if you can't pay your electricity bill the electric company will turn off the service. if you buying a car and stop paying with one month left they will repo it. property tax is a tax that everyone who owns property has to pay for doesn't matter if you have a mortgage or not. if you can't afford to pay the property tax bill then sell your house and rent. seems pretty simple to me, it's called life, you live with in your means.

Provision should be made for elerly people on a fixed income who are in danger of losing their homes over a city/county/state bill IMHO. Such as pay $5 a month.

I mean hell, foodstamp/EBT benefits are $200 a month on a very low income. So to say we'll just take your house when you clearly can't make one relatively small payment is overly harsh. That's assuming there's no more backstory which there probably is.

Also, I don't see why people can't see Rochards very legitimate gripe. Just imagine your neighbor parking with his tire on the property line and stepping out onto your yard when he leaves his truck. Now imagine that he's torn out YOUR landscaping and lied on his work permit about what he's going to do. Shit, it's a totally legit complaint!