Helpful neighbor!

Rock knocker · Mar 25, 2018

Shield Arc said:
According to my lawyer, who is a judge now. The judgement is 12% until she pays. Which she never will! I'll have to wait until she dies, and her kids sell her place.

Be sure to follow what ever the RCW's say about reaffirming damages so the debt can't be statute of limitation'ed into oblivion

joecoin · Mar 26, 2018

Shield Arc said:
According to my lawyer, who is a judge now. The judgement is 12% until she pays. Which she never will! I'll have to wait until she dies, and her kids sell her place.

I envision a day when you will post; "According to the judge who used to be my lawyer and is retired now..."

DB Pilot · May 4, 2018

Shield Arc,

I've been asking my grape farming neighbor to stop running his tractors, trucks, cars, wagons, sprayers, etc. on my property to tend his grape rows for seven years now. To no avail, so this year I posted the property and put t-posts up to block the equipment. He has pulled up the posts and signs twice now throwing them into my field. I had the county sheriff talk to him and he keeps doing whatever he wants. Property line is not in dispute. He just doesn't care. Inconsistently says you can come on my property and next time says stay off and the says he doesn't care if I hunt his property. So unsure how stable this guy is. The grape row ends are 1 foot from his chosen line.

During questioning about this problem I was asked why isn't the property surveyed? Well, it will be next week. But the neighbor walked the line with me seven years ago and told me where the line is and I said I wasn't sure. So the grapes, a recently dug drainage ditch and signs are all on his side but his equipment runs on my side. Things are starting to heat up and not sure where to go from here. I think a fence will be run down. I'm thinking of my own deep as I can drainage ditch after the official survey.

dragoneggs · May 4, 2018

DB Pilot said:
Shield Arc,

I've been asking my grape farming neighbor to stop running his tractors, trucks, cars, wagons, sprayers, etc. on my property to tend his grape rows for seven years now. To no avail, so this year I posted the property and put t-posts up to block the equipment. He has pulled up the posts and signs twice now throwing them into my field. I had the county sheriff talk to him and he keeps doing whatever he wants. Property line is not in dispute. He just doesn't care. Inconsistently says you can come on my property and next time says stay off and the says he doesn't care if I hunt his property. So unsure how stable this guy is. The grape row ends are 1 foot from his chosen line.

During questioning about this problem I was asked why isn't the property surveyed? Well, it will be next week. But the neighbor walked the line with me seven years ago and told me where the line is and I said I wasn't sure. So the grapes, a recently dug drainage ditch and signs are all on his side but his equipment runs on my side. Things are starting to heat up and not sure where to go from here. I think a fence will be run down. I'm thinking of my own deep as I can drainage ditch after the official survey.

Document everything. Take pictures. For a start...

Does he not have any other way in?

FTG-05 · May 4, 2018

You guys think you have crappy neighbor's! Good luck topping this!

- One neighbor just gave me a pile of road gravel so I could spread it on the mud holes of my one mile gravel road. It was only about a 1/3 load (at $375/load) and it was for mud holes way past his house! The Ingrate!

- Another neighbor lost all their hens to predators leaving them with just their rooster. I'm in the process (now done) of exchanging my first batch of chickens with the 2nd, my BIL/SIL only wanted 2 hens, so that left 7 hens and one rooster for me to get rid of. My neighbor agreed to take all my hens! How Rude!

- I borrowed a 10' AL ladder from another neighbor; used it to install some LED lighting in my shop. I kept it because I planned to install some more. So I talked to my neighbors and asked if it was ok to keep it a while longer - and they didn't just say yes, they said keep it, it's yours!!! The Nerve of Some People!

Like I said, bet you can't top that!

dragoneggs · May 4, 2018

FTG-05 said:
You guys think you have crappy neighbor's! Good luck topping this!

- One neighbor just gave me a pile of road gravel so I could spread it on the mud holes of my one mile gravel road. It was only about a 1/3 load (at $375/load) and it was for mud holes way past his house! The Ingrate!

- Another neighbor lost all their hens to predators leaving them with just their rooster. I'm in the process (now done) of exchanging my first batch of chickens with the 2nd, my BIL/SIL only wanted 2 hens, so that left 7 hens and one rooster for me to get rid of. My neighbor agreed to take all my hens! How Rude!

- I borrowed a 10' AL ladder from another neighbor; used it to install some LED lighting in my shop. I kept it because I planned to install some more. So I talked to my neighbors and asked if it was ok to keep it a while longer - and they didn't just say yes, they said keep it, it's yours!!! The Nerve of Some People!

Like I said, bet you can't top that!

Ha ha! Yeah my 85yr old neighbor always offers me a beer after I mow my yard. I guess his strategy finally paid off after several years of this ritual. Now I mow his lower half while I'm at it. :drink:

FTG-05 · May 4, 2018

dragoneggs said:
Ha ha! Yeah my 85yr old neighbor always offers me a beer after I mow my yard. I guess his strategy finally paid off after several years of this ritual. Now I mow his lower half while I'm at it. :drink:

Excellent, I'm glad you got the humor in an, unfortunately, unhumourous thread.

DB Pilot · May 4, 2018

Dragon eggs, Yes he comes in on his own 75 acres. When he gets to the end of the row he has to come onto mine. When he does repairs he parks his truck on my property. 2 or 3 years ago he started mowing my side. I expect to make it a nicer work area for himself. I also keep it mowed but sometimes he beats me to the punch. He is younger than me and I am thinking he is setting up an adverse possession case in the future. He is trespassing, mowing it and openly and continuously using it. I think it is more but conservatively it is 1500' x 25'.

I have suggested that when a row needs repair why not repair the row back and not one foot from the property line and then over some time the problem will be resolved. Nope, he repairs right to the line.

DB Pilot · May 4, 2018

Apologies to Arc Shield I think I should have started my own thread and I will if this continues. But one more comment, About 5 years ago a riding stable (for handicapped kids) asked if they could hay my field for their horses. It is a charitable business so I was all for that and I got my fields maintained for nothing. The second year they cut the hay and teddered it up ready to bale this guy comes in with a baler of his own and scooped it all up. The riding stable told me they did not want to fight over hay and found other places to donate to them. Then he stopped haying and I'm by myself again. :shocked:

dragoneggs · May 4, 2018

DB Pilot said:
Apologies to Arc Shield I think I should have started my own thread and I will if this continues. But one more comment, About 5 years ago a riding stable (for handicapped kids) asked if they could hay my field for their horses. It is a charitable business so I was all for that and I got my fields maintained for nothing. The second year they cut the hay and teddered it up ready to bale this guy comes in with a baler of his own and scooped it all up. The riding stable told me they did not want to fight over hay and found other places to donate to them. Then he stopped haying and I'm by myself again. :shocked:

Do start another thread... SA is a good guy (met him) but let's not mix issues.