Neighbor Drama

I realized it's been a while since I updated everyone on the neighbor drama.

Basically, the husband and I have partially given up our fight - at least along one boundary. We're ceding the side of the yard to the neighbor, but we're putting up a big, ugly wooden fence just like he didn't want. We went to home depot and got the cheapy panels and the hubby put them up in one afternoon. They look like hell on his side, but we moved our bushes that he threatened to take out and put them in front of the panels on our side, so it's actually not bad. They do serve the purpose of blocking the view of him and his backyard out, so that's a plus. I wish they were taller - the 6 foot height doesn't do much to block a 2-story building. Oh well, such is life I guess. We're planning to do a lattice-work structure with climbing plants like something my husband saw online as well to help further block the view and add some additional growing space for flowers.

Now, he's onto this kick in the back. The difference between our surveyors was 22 feet and somehow he has decided to be "generous" and compromise at 6 feet - as in we can have 6 of the 22 disputed feet. Um... no. A genuine compromise is 11 feet - not 6 and since he didn't compromise at all on the side nearest our house, I don't feel inclined to give him any additional feet on boundary nearest his house. We could pursue all 22 feet and have the boundary be really near his back deck, but I'm not that big of a jerk - too bad that isn't a mutual trait between us. He sees nothing wrong with taking land as close to our windows and deck as possible, but he wants us to basically give up our land nearest his windows and deck. How does that even make sense? It doesn't. I guess it's a character flaw of his - he only sees things from one side. His. He doesn't see how being kind in this situation would have potentially worked in his favor. Oh well.

So, that's the update. The neighbor is still being a complete jerk. We lost land on the side, but I don't intend to lose any more if I can help it. I asked our surveyor for another estimate to mark the corners and find a landmark that is buried, but I haven't heard back from him yet.