At the rental house a while back the renters had requested to get a load
of gravel for the driveway because they said it was muddy. They only
asked for us to pay for half so I agreed. The wife was over there today
doing an inspection. As it turns out, last time I was over there they
were starting to build a house on the empty lot next door. Lot has been
empty for 15 years. On that side of our house is the driveway and garage
and between our lot and the lot next door is a drainage "ditch" so to
speak that drains from the back of the property to the street. This
drainage area is mostly on our side of the property line. We have the
whole back side of the property privacy fenced and IIRC we had the fence
built a foot over on our side of the property line. Turns out this new
neighbor next door built a privacy fence of their own continuing at the
front edge of ours continuing toward the front of the property. They
build this fence right in the drainage area (it is not so much a ditch
but a lowered to flow water). With their fence built even with our
fence, their fence is basically a foot into our property.
Now back to the gravel situation. It turns out the guy next door is
having a pool installed, and the mud the renter was referring to was
actually all this mud from their pool project flooding over and totally
covering our driveway in mud. It also filled in the drainage area with
mud. Had I known this, I would have gone after the guy next door to
clean up his mess or pay for gravel.
The reason all this came to a head is because this neighbor somehow got
the wife's cell phone number and called her yesterday complaining about
our renters saying his dogs attacked him and his dog bla bla bla. He
called the Sheriff who came out to talk to our renter. Being that it is
out in the country there is nothing they can do. If the renter's dog
gets out and supposedly threatens somebody, they are free to shoot it.
The new guy told all sorts of lies about this situation. We talked to
the deputy who came out there and that is when we discovered all the
lies this guy was saying.
Anyway, I need to have a conversation with this guy but first I think I
may see about having a survey done to make sure of where the property
lines actually are. When we first bought the place all the lots were
staked off but this guy, or somebody, evidentially removed them. Once I
determine his fence is on my property I suppose my next thing will be to
demand he remove it. If he does not, I will head over with the tractor
and remove it for him.
By the way, this guy says he is a retired cop from Chicago. That
explains it all.
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