I need to get something off my chest. I hope my neighbor-to-be flies away for the winter and decides that my neighborhood is just not the place for him. Then he can sell his McMansion and a nice family with some kids can move in next door. Maybe a family that isn't crazy. Wouldn't that be a surprisingly awesome change of events?
In case you haven't been following the drama, the new neighbor is an old fat guy with some serious entitlement issues. He basically thinks anything he can see is part of his lot. Our lots are interlocking L's and he won't accept that my back yard juts into his back yard. He thinks he owns not only half of my front yard, but the majority of the back as well and that's just simply not the case.
To make matters worse, the lot lines associated with our properties have always been this way since the day the lots were cut. There is a bit of an error in the deeds, but in the past 60 years nobody has had a problem with that. There have been no quarrels related to the lot lines that are recorded and in fact, nobody has ever even bothered to have a survey done because there has never been an issue. Until now. This jackass moves in and hires a surveyor that did a shotty job and basically told him what he wanted to hear -- that he owns the whole damn town.
We've also had our own survey done and unfortunately, it doesn't agree with his. He maintains that his is superior (realllly bad complex) despite the fact that my surveyor trained his. Adding insult to injury, the town is 0 help. They keep saying we have to take it to court to prove the land that we've been using and that has been associated with our property for 60 years is really ours. We consulted an attorney and court will cost $40K+ and could take upwards of 5 years or more.
That's just insane. Why is it so easy to buy property in this country, but so damn difficult to prove that it's actually yours? I feel like anyone at any point in time could just hire (pay off) a surveyor to say that they own your lot and unless you have a lot of cash hanging around, you're pretty much screwed. Even if you do have the money sitting around, you're at the mercy of the courts. Never mind if the property has been a part of your yard for 60+ years, is fenced, has been maintained and has old-growth shrubs on it. That's completely irrelevant. What matters is who has the most money, which judge you get and how lucky you are.
Because of the screwed up rules in Massachusetts, I highly recommend that nobody, NOBODY buys property here. You will be at risk of it being stolen not only by the state, but by overzealous neighbors that are better off economically than you.
I know nothing will come of complaining. Politicians don't care. The town doesn't care and it appears that most of the voting block is too ignorant to elect anyone other than the crooked losers that are currently in office creating the laws that make daily life difficult to begin with.
I know it's not good to put bad vibes out into the world, but I really really really hope something happens to the neighbor that makes him decide he needs to live elsewhere. Maybe he gets caught for tax evasion or has an ill family member that needs to be cared for in a far-off state. I don't know - something, anything would be good at this point. I feel like he's one of those people that constantly lie and cheat and it just never ever comes back to them. He's a horrible two-faced son of a bitch and Karma seems to be turning the other cheek at him. I just HATE it when people like him squeak by in life without ever suffering the consequences of their actions. It gets under my skin like no other because if I so much as a step out of line, Karma bitch slaps me back into place. Why doesn't it seem to work like that for the people like him?
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