Property line issue

[Lady D]

If it were me, and if I knew exactly where the stake went, I would (as subtly as possible) put it back in its place. (And it sounds like that's what you did...)

My western property line is really funky, and I have two neighbors on it. None of the three of us really follow the property line when we mow; we all overlap the lines just to be safe.

But all of our iron pins are in place. That seems to be the important issue, if you ask me. As a gardener, that's one of the first things I ask a new client--where is the property line EXACTLY? They say that good fences make good neighbors. Established property pins are as good as a fence in most cases. (And I don't like shared fences or hedges for that matter. Someone's side of it is always neglected.)

Every once in a while, my crazy redneck meth-manufacturing foster-parent neighbors will breech the lines. The last time was kind of funny: I saw something lying in the yard and figured it was a bag or something that blew out of their permanent construction dumpster. (I guess trash cans would be too easy.) Dad went to investigate it for me, and came back grinning. It was a wind sock on a broom handle. In a fit of culture or something, they had dug a hole in my yard and put a plastic cup in it for putting practice. Dad asked them to move it off my yard, and they did.

Later I could see them out there hitting golf balls into the road--shirtless, in trucker hats, with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths. (Sometimes I wish that natural selection would speed up a little!)

Well, unfortunately the guy that had lived there before this man who did the remodeling is the one who removed the stake and I assume threw it away. It never was put back.

 

[NoHall]

Well, unfortunately the guy that had lived there before this man who did the remodeling is the one who removed the stake and I assume threw it away. It never was put back.

Property line issues just get so ugly when they become disputes. If it was me (and not everyone does things like I do, and that's okay!) I'd leave the stick for a week or so. If he doesn't agree with your stick I predict that it will mysteriously disappear. That's when I would look into having a diplomatic discussion with the survey plat in hand.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Might I suggest planting land mines by your bedroom window?

 

[Smiling JOe]

It seems like we all have this fear of openly communicating with our neighbors, which is like walking on eggshells. Maybe it stems from our nature of wanting to be "neighborly," not wanting to seem confrontational. It could be that we don't want to appear possessive of our things/property. I don't think that your situation of not openly and honestly communicating with your neighbor is a rare case. Once we learn to let down that barrier and comfortably talk with our neighbors, we will probably see that some of our fears were only self-made.

 

[Rudyjohn]

Here's my take on this ladyd -

My husband gets irritated that our next door neighbor does not mow his lawn regularly. Mr. JR is anal about how he thinks everyone's yard should look, in spite of their hardships. (This neighbor of ours does work a lot of hours too, has a couple of small kids, etc.) SO, when Mr. JR mows ours, he mows part of their easement section next to ours and the section between our driveways. And he ONLY does this, not to help them out, but he says he can't stand to look out our windows and see their scraggly unmowed (sp?) lawn next to ours and everyone else's.

So, I would say to try to keep your lawn mowed, and if this neighbor continues to mow yours, then I'd say there's definitely a different reason.

 

[seacrestkristi]

I suggest you have another survey done. You could ask the neighbor to split the cost. The survey lines that were used/marked when we bought our property in '84 did not come any where near the ones that were posted when we had surveys done last year. The maps were so different that even the surveyor said that he was going to double check it. He came and shot the lines here on 3 different occasions and we came to realize that our entire property was actually off by 10'. The 10' feet to the north that we have ALWAYS used as a driveway was on the lot to the north and the 10' to the south was a scrub area that we had kept for privacy.
Go figure

It'd be cheaper just to put a stake back in on your own, especially if your not the one who's .Hubba was then asked by our neighbor's dad if we'd pay half for a survey only to find out he was indeed yards over. He still never moved the dern thing. We were still friendly but we never did really trust him as a neighbor. Our gulls babysat their little ones who were precious. A couple years into it they were splitsville and the first thing the new guy did was tear down that ugly chain link fence, which,btw their dog dug under, the other jumped over, and slept on my patio all the time anyhow.
After the new guy teared down the fence I didn't even care when I saw his girlfriend pull the stake out when mowing. Well guess what ? Now after 8 years he moved just last weekend. I'm committed if the new peeps start building fences in my yard I'm going to let them know as nice as I can right away, where exactly the line is. If they just want to mow though we'll that might be okay? :scratch: Sounds kinda hypocritical but its their choosing to do more mowing. Why? Maybe it makes their yard look bigger. It's that territory thing, I think. Hmmm. :roll:

 

[DonPtrl2@cox.ne]

Why not just be playful about it and thank him for mowing your part of the yard and offer to hire him as your lawn boy.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Tell him he missed a spot and demand he do it again until he gets it right.

 

[Bob]

I am mindful that, like neighbors, I can't pick family members either. I'd plant a hedge or put in some ground cover on the border.

 

[kingfishn]

well...i'm 'elderly' and bored...have a John Deere...and when I mow the weeds
that make up my 'lawn'...I mow the whole neighborhood...cuz the county doesn't
keep the right of ways in the 'hood mowed...it's a 'man/machine' thing...he's just
being neigh'bored'ly, methinks...(I have yet to file a 'claim' on any property I have mowed, I do claim any and all golf balls in my yard, however)...