I have some problematic neighbors that allow a their weed and bush overgrowth to constantly take over the shared fence in my back yard. I trim this shit back multiple times per year and am getting rather sick of it invading my yard. What's really aggravating is that five feet of my yard is on their side of the fence. Unfortunately the fence has been there since before we moved in. It's a battle I'm tired of fighting.
I'm curious what others in similar situations have done. I've tried talking to them before but none of them give a shit since the growth from their weeds is on my side. Not their problem and all that BS.
Picture attached for reference. I don't think antifreeze and aids infected needles will help here. [Reply]
I share a fence with a D bag neighbor. It’s on acreage though. He got cows and showed up at my door and told me I had a week to clean up the limbs laying on our shared fence. It’s in his pasture but my woods. I told him to fuck off. That was three years ago. With a shared fence, at least on rural acreage, if you want it maintained it’s up to you [Reply]
Originally Posted by tooge:
roundup all the shit you can. Plant some nice bushy pines. In a few years you won’t see the neighbors or the shit growing on their side
Hell, I would just build another fence right next to the existing one if there was a way to keep all that growth from coming through it. Fucking vines are the worst. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 007:
yep, mentioned that earlier. They didn't give two shits about the issue. :-) that was a few years ago.
since they don't maintain it they don't have any right to you property. Just finally start acting like it's yours. You beta get those trees under control. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bob Dole:
Get with a farmer friend and grab some industrial strength Roundup crap. The city kept coming after me for my lot in town, so I nuked it.
Originally Posted by srvy:
Section line fences in rural areas are a whole differant animal. Some fences may have been in place longer than the existing section corner. The original surveys when you trace back in the field notes they state raised a mound and set an oak post. Then the blazed trees and referenced said corner and section line. Well those no longer exist so a surveyor retraces and follows in the footprints of the original surveys as best can. The equipment has evolved we are more accurate but the original lines stand. A judge many times rules that old fence is the monument to the line and to hell with the surveyors evidence.
Yuck.
Thank goodness every survey I’ve had done the surveyor measures. Probably because this wasn’t as developed when it was originally surveyed. [Reply]
Contact your mortgage company and title ins. Co and get the site survey that was done to get title insurance. Review it, find the stakes (paint them clearly and then file a claim with them. I did that and Home Savings (MO) bought the land in question from my neighbor and covered all costs.
I would say that a letter from your title insurance co to theirs will have them knocking on your door with little delay and in a amicable manner wanting to resolve the problem.
You will get nowhere with a claim for maintaining a property other than your own in court but if you like legal receipts, go for it. [Reply]
