A man has blasted his neighbour for slowly stealing his garden to make his yard more spacious – and now he is waiting for a house surveyor to set the record straight
A man has slammed his entitled neighbour who keeps stealing small parts of his garden to make his home look more attractive. He explained how his neighbour has put his house on the market and has been trying to make it as attractive as possible for potential buyers.
But within this, the neighbour has been slowly stealing part of his garden to make it appear as though the buyer will be getting a “spacious backyard”. He said on Reddit: “The neighbours have listed their house for sale. They have a realtor that has taken pictures of our yard stating in the listing as ‘has a spacious backyard’. Fact is, their house is placed on their lot further back giving them a larger front yard.
“The neighbour now cuts approximately 50 feet into our yard in an attempt to sell their house as a ‘spacious backyard’. This is always done when we aren’t home.”
Not only this – but their house is also listed as having “lake access” with the “ability to build your own dock”. However, he says the lake is actually over the road from the house.
He added: “I have gone over their attempts on taking our property with a shorter cut to no avail. They wait until we leave and cut it again. Odd thing is, they never cut past the property line until they listed it for sale.”
Despite speaking up about the issue, the neighbour has continued to slowly steal small parts of their property whenever they’re not home.
She said: “I have finally heard from a Surveyor and should be having the property surveyed soon. Also learned from the Surveyor that our neighbourhood has never had a survey done.
“Surveyor stated that’s the way they did things in our area when this development was planned out.
“Original land owner just put stakes out in a Field designating lots. This should be interesting. I will update further after the survey is complete.”
Commenting on his post, one user said: “Once you get a survey I would put up a temporary fence ASAP.
“Some wooden stakes and the back fabric used for erosion control (I can’t recall the name). Maybe affix some no trespassing signs to it.”
Another user added: “We had someone selling the eight acres in front of us. The realtor listed it with access to our private driveway as an easement.
“We actually caught people on our private driveway measuring where they could put in an entrance to the property for sale.
“We had a survey already, provided the relator with the survey. He pointed to the utility easement as their rights to use our driveway.
“We had to get a lawyer to send a letter to the real estate company stating we would sue unless they stopped advertising our property as part of the sale.
“That was the only way we got them to stop. I would get your survey find out what you own then get an attorney. Once they sell it will be harder to get back what is yours.”
A third user said: “I’d be tempted to put up some really tacky yard decorations right along the edge of my property!”
