Did you actually get cited?
Is that a lawn jockey in your neighbor’s front yard? Really?
Very, very well put. The woman is so involved in her vendetta that she puts up a fence that is NOT going to help sell her house. Pretty damn sad.
It sure does look like it.
She overstepped her bounds when she tried to assume control of a portion of your lawn and sure had no cause to get snippy about things when your Mom politely and wisely declined.
Now as she tries to complete one of the bigger financial transactions most folks ever undertake, she’s placed a huge red flag on the deal, saying in essence “Here is a conflict zone.”
Regardless of who’s at fault, regardless of how stupidly trivial it is, it says there’s a problem inherent to this sale. What a monumentally childish attitude for a prospective seller to assume.
Kittenblue, I looked up and down y’alls fenceline and from what I can see you have a lovely, well-kept home and yard. That lady is bona fide nutters.
You’re the one that should be pissed. She put up that ugly soil retaining fence that is used to control water runoff during construction. it’s a total eye soar. You can’t even enjoy the fact it might lose her the house sale, because that means she’ll be there longer. The city needs to tell her to clean up the yard. Actually many cities do regulate fences. You can’t install fences right on the property line either. The grass is going to grow right against the plastic so you can’t mow. At least if it was on here property it would be her responsibility to mow the grass against it. What a c***.
It’s all about buffer zones. You need at least an acre in every direction.
She’s kinda hoity-toity. Most West-siders in Cleveland have chrome balls and pink flamingos. 
Down these parts it’s geese wearing actual clothing. :rolleyes:
Yes, that is a lawn jockey (my, what good eyes you have) and every spring she gets out the paint and touches him up. We are actually in a suburb of Cleveland, and the cop said it had been a slow day,until she called…then they got four calls at once, so it took them a few minutes…like twenty. Mom (who is the homeowner) was going to call city hall today about the "pretty"side issue, but early this morning (okay, 10) one of the boyfriend’s employees came over and installed more stakes on the other side…so mom chickened out. But I’ve had some really cheap Trader Joe’s wine, and I think maybe tomorrow I will stop by City Hall with my pictures and ask some questions. You know, as Mom’s advocate. Of course, I’ll probably chicken out by morning, so I will look to this forum for the go-ahead. We’ve put up with the sticks and string eyesore for almost four years now…when she first installed it, it was on our property, and she was having a permanent fence installed…Mom went out and told the fence company they were on our property, a surveyor from the city came out,and she had to move her stakes…and the permanent fence never happened. She has not crossed the property line since.
What I really need is a friend to call up the realtor pretending to be interested in the property, but expressing concern over the plastic sheeting, to hear what story the realtor gives about it. Maybe I can convince Lillith Fair to do that for me…LOL
Oh, and I haven’t been cited, yet…I just handed in my statement at noon (to an old high school friend…what luck) The wheels of justice grind slow. Maybe tomorrow…:
Your neighbor sounds like a neurotic bitch.
I looked at the pictures and noticed the lawn jockey :eek: (who the hell puts those up these days?).
Here’s hoping that the house sells. Quickly. And you will be rid of her.
If all the Dopers in all the world think good thoughts about her house selling quickly so she’s out of your hair, you think that would help? I can send some your way.
I have great neighbours on one side, and acceptable ones on the other. My great neighbours are damned near perfect, but they are very old - I wish they could live forever. They mow their lawn regularly at a reasonable hour (I never hear them mow), they clean snow off before it stops falling, I never hear them and rarely see them. Last summer we had to put up a piece of fence between our yards that had fallen over - they gave us some money for it, and after they decided it wasn’t enough, they came out and gave us more (it had been plenty the first time). I don’t think we will ever have neighbours this good again.
If you can find the house listed online, you can probably email the realtor. You might even then reply that the ugly fence is kind of a deal breaker for you, but thanks anyways. Besides, it seems to be priced about 10,20,30 thousand to much for you (if you can get them to go lower, it will sell sooner)
As for the fence, just call up your city’s permit office and ask what the rules are for a fence. For starters can you actually have a fence there. I know that in my city we can’t have a fence that extends past the front of the house. I’m guessing that not only does that violate the ‘pretty side out’ rule, but probably a few others as well.
But their impossible to stop once their course is set.
I’m not going to make a complaint about her “fence”, but I am going to stop by City Hall and ask for a copy of the rules…
I wonder if it’s legal to bury St. Joseph in your neighbor’s yard? 
Trespassing and littering are two citations that come to mind, but do it at 3AM and who’s the wiser? 
Streetlights might be a problem.
Maybe she can just bless the lawn jockey and bury that? It would definitely improve the property’s street appeal…
Maybe she could bury the neighbor in St. Joseph’s yard.