Land Dispute

I'm sure I've posted about my a-hole neighbor that's building a house next door. In case I haven't, I'll do a quick overview. Basically, we have lived here for 5 years. In that time, the lot next door has been vacant and wooded. Then, a-hole bought it, tore down EVERY SINGLE TREE on it and proceeded to build a house and a 2 story barn. Part of the process involved getting a survey done where his surveyor decided that 1/2 of my front yard secretly belonged to him.

Uh huh.

So, then a-hole decided to knock on my door and start making demands. First, he wants me to clean up my back yard on the side facing his property - there was some debris from our construction project, kids toys, gardening supplies from my current project, etc.

I laughed. I mean, who does that? Then he basically said if I didn't, he would put a fence where his surveyor said the line was. Well, I wasn't having any of that, so I showed him where my surveyor said the line was, which was not in agreement with his surveyor. Now, I have some shrubs on my property that are on the side. Both surveyors said they are past the line, but they are 20+ years old. In my state that situation would qualify for adverse possesion.

So... fast forward a while. My husband put a chicken-wire fence to contain the dog and some shrubs in the backyard near the property line. A-hole the neighbor decided to pull up the fence and the shrubs and throw them in a pile... WHILE MY HUSBAND WAS BACK THERE! That's some brass balls, right?

Of course, my husband is the non-confrontational one between the two of us, so he didn't say anything. I don't know what I found more surprising - the fact that the a-hole next door has balls made of brass or that my husband is such a wuss. Needless to say, I would not have done nothing. I would have gone and bit his head off, then called the cops. Knowing that I am the more aggressive of the two of us and that he was in the wrong, said neighbor did not visit his house today, like he has done every day for the past 11 months.

I think he's afraid of me. And he should be. The husband is putting the shrubs and fence back today. If he does it again, I am calling the police. I have his address... not like it's hard to find him!!!

So then, on top of all that, we called a land lawyer today. I have had enough of that jerk. Unfortunately, we found out that to just settle the line dispute will cost in the neighborhood of $30k plus another full survey, which I have already priced out to be $2800. We don't have that kind of money! I have another baby due in April...

I think we'll be doing things a little more creatively from this point out. He wants to play dirty? Fine. He's getting the cops called on him for every little thing. I'm also calling in to the tree warden and letting them know he cut down trees illegally and should pay the fine (we live on a scenic road). And, if his workers arrive before 7am at all ever again, I'm calling them in on the noise ordinance. I've taken to waking up at 6:30, so I will know if they are there.

You really really don't want to get on this mama's bad side.

Did I mention that he hangs out in his garage all day? I swear he must be a pedophile or something. Who hangs out in an unfinished garage for 12 hours a day doing nothing? He only appears to gawk at my little kids. I think he's into child pornography... should probably tip off the cops. Seriously, he's doing something freaky in there.