assateague wrote:I'm with Acorn on this one. Some people you just can't reach. If they have the entitlement mindset, fuggedaboutit.
Quick story regarding neighbors. Growing up, we had two neighbors across the street. The one guy put up a fence, which was about 2 feet on the neighbor's property. He told him "that's not yours tto put there", when he saw the company out there stringing a line. Not only that, but he built the fence "backwards", which further pissed off the neighbor. One day, he came home, and the fence guys had built the fence. Rather than tear it down or call anybody (it was a nice, free fence, after all), he had a wooden sign made, about as big as a paddle, which said "The Bakers' Fence". It was a very nice sign. When he went out to nail it up on the end of the fence nearest the street, the neighbor came running out of his front door pulling his belt off, and commenced to whipping him. What he forgot was that the other neighbor was holding a wooden sign, about 3 inches wide and 2 feet long, which he proceeded to beat the piss out of the belt wielding neighbor with. They went at it for quite a few minutes, until the guy with the belt was basically out on his feet from getting cracked on the head repeatedly with a piece of wood. We all sat on the porch and enjoyed the show. He then nailed the sign up, they never spoke again, and to the best of my knowledge, the fence is still there today. This was around 1979 or so.
Some people, talking does no good.
About 2 summers ago my wifes stepdad decided to build a fence. He got the plot map and measured where the fence should be, turns out the old one was about 20" onto his side of the line. The neighbor lady declined to chip in on the fence. He went ahead and payed for all the materials, and did all the labor, built it 4" onto his side. Neighbor didn't say a word, she waited until the fence was 99% complete and he was gone at work, then she cut it down with a chainsaw.
Long story short, and several sheriffs officer visits and a court date later - he paid for a legal survey (he was right) and paid a fencing company to build a new fence in the same spot. He has a lein on her house and a restraining order on her - bet he never gets his money back.