Validation. For not keeping my old house and renting it out…even my lender tried to convince me to keep it. No thanks.
-D > On May 6, 2020, at 8:22 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Ahhhh the life of a landlord. > > Bob R > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On May 6, 2020, at 5:05 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
