Sigarms
Super Member
Anyway you cut it, that sounds like a cluster fiasco just waiting to happen, and it just did.
Neighbor has elected to damage over 20 trees
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Anyway you cut it, that sounds like a cluster fiasco just waiting to happen, and it just did.
MossRoad
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Yes, asking a group to cooperate is just asking for trouble. :laughing:
Funny, but sadly true.
Before I was born, my father and a business partner bought 20 acres and subdivided it into 17 lots. They had city water and the local natural gas and electric lines run in, but left the road gravel. It was just within the city limits, on the outskirts of town at the time. Fast forward 15 years, several of them wanted city curbs and asphalt. City demanded sewer under the paved street. 9 of them wanted it. 8 of them didn't. They passed a barrett law and we had to comply. And since my dad had kept the largest frontage lot for himself, he had to pay the most in taxes, to cover the length of sewer, asphalt and curbing in front of his place. He had the last laugh, though. The company the city hired to do the street work didn't prep the soil correctly, a large rain came in a couple days before the asphalt and washed out all the curbs for a couple hundred yards. They had to bring in fill, repack it, repour everything.... and it happened again! The entire street was closed for close to two years. And a few years after that, the curbs started sinking, and they had to close the street again for several months to dig the street up 3' from each side. My dad had the only access from the back-side of his property for people to walk through to get to their houses, and, of course, he refused to let anyone that voted for the barrett law to trespass on his property. They had to take quite the hike for two years.
Anyhow, what I gathered from that experience, is that it made bad-blood between the neighbors that lasted until the day they either moved or died. 20-30 years along and they still wouldn't talk to each other. And several of the kids in the neighborhood would get into the inevitable "my father says your father ....." squabbles.
So pick your neighborly battles with care. It can effect the rest of your life, and your neighbor's life.
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747driver
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I could have worded it better.....yes. But your assumption is not what it appears.
Sawyer Rob
Super Member
City folk arguing over a few loads of dirt...
The fun ALWAYS starts when city folk move to the country! I see it happen that way here too...
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just go buy a couple replacement loads of dirt, rather than hiring a lawyer?? lol
SR
The fun ALWAYS starts when city folk move to the country! I see it happen that way here too...
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just go buy a couple replacement loads of dirt, rather than hiring a lawyer?? lol
SR
wagne223
Platinum Member
For sure, however, if he places it in the ROW, the thief will just take it again!
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747driver
Veteran Member
Why would I want to buy dirt to replace it when it was mine to begin with ! Guess you didn't read the post...I am letting the issue die !!
Sawyer Rob
Super Member
I read the whole post, you are going to end up paying thousands for a couple loads of dirt... lol (and some pecker poles)
Why should you buy the dirt, because it's the cheaper way out with a LOT less stress!
City folk LIKE drama!!!
SR
Why should you buy the dirt, because it's the cheaper way out with a LOT less stress!
City folk LIKE drama!!!
SR
buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
So if you have some logs ready to mill, you wouldn't mind if your neighbor comes over, cuts them up for firewood, and hauls them off?
RobertN
Super Member
Good question; in my rural road association, there are spots in the road that are to one side or the other of the center due to rock, old oak trees etc. Assuming the road is in the middle of the ROW is a mistake...
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747driver
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When we have the property surveyed soon...going to ask to have the ROW marked. The ROW was established from the center of the existing road. But as mentioned by others there is parts of the road where you can't without spending mega bucks to remove a 200' rock formation that is in the ROW, hence that is where our property lays. You would have to go on the other side of the road to widen that section, which would be on the neighbors property. Property can be deceiving by just looking at the surface without digging deeper to see if there are obstructions requiring mega cost to build on.