I doubt you can build a six foot wall all the way to the street. Definitely could not here.1I’m in the midst of selling a house I no longer occupy several states away. The main complaint from potential buyers at this point is that my neighbor’s cars and junk are encroaching onto the property.
We don’t have a shared driveway, but the driveways touch with no fence between them. The neighbor has grown increasingly comfortable, and at this point just parks some of his cars on my side, after I’ve repeatedly told him to stay off of it.
He also uses my trash pickup capacity (service included with property taxes, no opt out), and leaves things in the front. If they don’t get picked up on time or it’s a holiday week, sometimes there is a mess. His yard is also persistently a mess, full of half disassembled cars, tools, and deteriorating furniture.
He’s basically ignoring my phone calls and texts at this point, and my agent who is in the area has been physically intimidated and threatened by him.
Calling a tow truck is a last resort for me. I’m mostly afraid of retaliation. But it may be time for that measure.
Any creative ways you can think of for me to re-establish the boundary of our driveways and get him to clean up his yard?
My only goal at this point is to sell the house ASAP. But he’s almost actively preventing this from happening.
Seek legal counsel
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Have all further commication with neighbor be handled by the lawyer, if the neighbor asks you about things or has objections, just keep saying, "it's out of my hands, I'll let the lawyer handle it."
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Do you have the budget to put up a solid concrete block wall 6 feet high on the propety line all the way to the street?
it will solve the problem and also increase the value of the property.
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Statistics: Posted by LotsaGray — Sun Oct 13, 2024 11:37 pm — Replies 55 — Views 4928