They didn’t ask permission, tore up my yard, killed some of my shrubs and flowers, and were generally unrepentant.
Like a one year locust, they are back.
And they’ve done it again.
My backyard is torn up, my fence is down, and they have a bobcat in their yard.
I have notified them that they are either going to have to keep the bobcat or come up with another way of getting it out, since they are not coming across my property.
Still, I can’t enforce it.
If I had an extra car, I’d park it in the yard and block them in.
With a copy of your notification, photos of the damage (and of the heavy equipment that did it), it sounds like you have a viable small claims court case.
I’ve just spent weeks landscaping my garden, moving literally tons of soil around, sowing seed for a lawn, carefully maintaining it. If you came along and tore up the grass expecting to get a beer out of it, you would be severely disappointed. You could try also knocking down the fence that I’ve just spent hours painting and maintaining, but that’s not going to work either.
You didn’t even have to link. I remember the incident, and you let them off easy last year. I would go after them full guns blazing this year. Get the pictures and call an attorney. They consider it easier to damage your property without notice, than to have their yard messed up or ask you for permission. They already know the answer to that. I’d block them in too, if I was you. Call the attorney today.
I want to chime in as someone who has taken three years to rehabilitate a badly neglected yard, I would not be drinking beer with someone who destroyed part of it without permission.
I guess I’m either just easier going, or am fortunate enough to have had really great neighbours my whole life. My previous neighbour use to use my yard without permission to have loads of firewood delivered. It was pretty much the only way to get it to his yard. The truck put gasp ruts in my lawn! Big freakin’ deal.
I second this. I remember your post last year as well, and was flabbergast. They took down a FENCE?!? Get a lawyer. You were good and neighborly once, this time you need to make sure they get the idea that your yard is yours, not theirs.
Why is the fence down again? They have a pet bobcat and the bobcat damaged the fence? Or the bobcat is wild and damaged the fence and is in their yard?
There’s a huge difference between using your yard to access their’s and deliberately scratching a new car. If my neighbour accidentally scratched my car while, I don’t know, cutting his lawn or something, I wouldn’t like it. But it would be an excuse to bring over a cold one and have a chat about it. Maybe we can arrive at a mutually agreeable solution as two adults.
All this talk of calling lawyers because a fence was taken down frankly has me perplexed. Isn’t it worth trying to have a friendly discussion over what happened and why, rather than taking up arms and pursuing litigation? Holy shit, it’s a fence. Presumably a fence that can be put back together. I’d much rather have to repair a fence than go to court.
Leaffan, did you read the linked thread in the OP? This is the second time this has happened with the same neighbors. Jsgoddess tried your approach last time, and it apparently did not deter the behavior.
If so, then I guess you are pretty laid back.