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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271328
05/24/21 12:21 PM
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Show us a picture of your property.


I got myself a seniors' GPS.
Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination,
it tells me why I wanted to go there.
Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: hippie] #7271331
05/24/21 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by hippie
Originally Posted by Mike in A-town
I've never understood how we got to the point that people believe the city has the authority to dictate whether or not your grass is too tall.

I don't really have any legal advice... Best I can offer is to catch him isolated and unawares and beat the whiz out of him. Then make him prove it was you that did it.

Sorry, but I'm a firm believer that if more people were taken to the Gus McRae "School of Bartending" they would be polite and keep to their own business a lot more.

Mike


The fear of God put into people changes their behaviour, that's for sure.


I'm not a violent person. But this notion of "civilized behavior" has brought us to the point that bullies just utilize whatever ordinances they can to terrorize other citizens. The only ones that win are the bureaucrats and the lawyers.

I fight it here in my town every time they propose a code officer and code enforcement. People need to realize exactly what they're asking for before they hand over that kind of authority to someone who wants it.

Mike


One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.

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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271332
05/24/21 12:31 PM
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I had a neighbor who never said a word to me, but went to a different neighbor complaining about me shooting in my back yard.
The other neighbor soon straightened him out by defending me and not long after he moved back to Filthydelphia where he came from

Sam, my defending neighbor and I still chuckle about him. Guess he didn't want to confront me for some reason?

Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: Nittany Lion] #7271333
05/24/21 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Nittany Lion
Show us a picture of your property.



Why, so you can be nosy, too?


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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: ~ADC~] #7271339
05/24/21 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Originally Posted by warrior
I don't hold with the devalue argument as that gets into coercive takings where one or more can take the labor and property of another for their own purposes.

How that was ever allowed to stand on constitutional grounds is beyond me.


I know you don't wanna hear this but... Like it or not it's going to be hard on your property value (no matter how nice your yard is), if you're living in a area where the others' yards in the area look like crap. It's because people don't want to live near that. We have a neighbor that's got junk all over, he mows but only a wide path around everything. I'm not the type to turn him in for it but I can certainly see why someone would want to.


Your absolutely right. I know property values and fully understand that I do myself no favors by not keeping my pig's ear looking like a silk purse but I'm not looking to sell or borrow. Besides the better looking it is the more the county will tax it.

Maybe I just hit on the why. Folks are strange when it comes to property values. They want it high as possible for going into debt purposes but complain when that same value gets taxed.


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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271341
05/24/21 12:39 PM
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As said check ordinances. If you're in the clear, Then post them on a sign for the neighbor to see


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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: white17] #7271344
05/24/21 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by white17
Get a couple of sheep. See how they like that.

That or put feed out for geese like a guy does at the lake. He has attracted a lot of Canadian Honkers to his yard. He never has to cut his grass and it's really green probably because they do poop a lot. I've never seen the man go barefoot in his yard.....


I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271346
05/24/21 12:47 PM
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I know I'm not in the clear yet or at least by definition of the code enforcement as it can be interpreted broadly. One item is a currently tagged but busted transmission truck sitting in the yard. As explained to me it has to "appear" to run as code enforcement can not enter the yard. I guess I'll have to go out and move it from time to time. Other issues are the crepe myrtle and privet that I whack down annually about this time every year when the privet is post bloom. I let it bloom for the bees. But the rest of is the grass.


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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271348
05/24/21 12:52 PM
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Part of the issue is that the property next to mine is abandoned and overgrown, the main source of my privet issues. I keep that one beat back with my once a year brush clearing as well.

I'm just waiting for code enforcement to try to hang that on me and I'll ask them to show me the survey pins.


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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271355
05/24/21 01:09 PM
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You either live in a fancy neighborhood or keep a real bad yard, lol.

Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271357
05/24/21 01:11 PM
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I'm not in the same situation but am having a little fun with a neighbor. He's actually a good neighbor but a little nosy. He is retired and he cuts his grass 7 days a week twice a day. I'm letting mine grow just to have some fun with him. I can tell it's driving him nuts but he hasn't said anything. Don't misunderstand, I have a 60" X Mark parked under the shed so I'm gonna have to lament before too long cause it's starting to bug me maybe more than him. I don't think so though.


"Skin that smokewagon and see what happens"
Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271359
05/24/21 01:13 PM
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If you live in a neighborhood with covenants and/or if there is an ordinance requiring it, mow your yard. You'd throw a hissy fit if one your neighbors posted political signs all over his yard that you didn't agree with and that you had to see or painted their house the official colors of the Palestinians. And, we aren't even necessarily comparing apples to apples.

Or move to the country and do whatever you want--we live free out here. Until then, be a good neighbor!

Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271360
05/24/21 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by warrior
Originally Posted by Nittany Lion
Show us a picture of your property.



Why, so you can be nosy, too?


Call it what you want, I would like to see if the neighbor has a legitimate gripe or not.


I got myself a seniors' GPS.
Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination,
it tells me why I wanted to go there.
Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271362
05/24/21 01:22 PM
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I would consider how you can make friends with this person, because it's a lose- lose battle.

Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271365
05/24/21 01:36 PM
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My neighbors don’t spray their weeds I spray them for them, I figure I can spray the weeds 2X a year or all year long depending how I look at it. LOL The one lady with the special needs son I never charge her, the other neighbor moves snow for me in return. Everyone’s happy. grin


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271374
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Or you could just mow your yard and it would all go away.

Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271376
05/24/21 01:48 PM
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I do my best to take care of my property, i’m glad my neighbors do to!!! It’s strange to me how so many give suggestions on ways to make it look worse!

Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: Wanna Be] #7271380
05/24/21 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
You either live in a fancy neighborhood or keep a real bad yard, lol.



That's what gets me the most. It's not fancy at all just rural county incorporated into a one mile circle map dot so the complaining neighbor can be mayor. Seriously, he is a mayor without pay or staff the county provides all services.
About half of the community has gone over to rentals and he's heck on them with the landlords on his speed dial. The rest are older homeowners who struggle to keep up their yards or newcomers like myself who took advantage of lower priced older homes, many are hispanic. The nice homes are mostly outside of the map dot on older family larger farm tracts in the county.

His big beef is his legacy as an old family an inability to direct how his community goes. I actually feel sorry for him and to some degree empathize in his desire to have some influence.


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Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271398
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Good fences make good neighbors, said Robert Frost.

Re: Question, what legal recourse do I have? [Re: warrior] #7271405
05/24/21 02:49 PM
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Warrior, that sounds like my old neighbor. Cops said it's a civil court issue and since he was nextdoor putting a restraining order on him would be impossible to obey with a minimum of 100 yards. Those are 2 of 5 options. The 3rd is file reports of harassment. 4th is let him try to cash the check his mouth is writing. 5 try to mend your relationship with him.

He called city in me numerous times for everything. City only gave me 1 issue because I didn't drive a truck often enough so I had to put in the backyard. My yard was xeriscaped (meaning drought tolerant plants) except 2 trees and a patch of grass in the backyard. Other than that both yards were gravel. He still called the city about 4 timmy weeds that just sprouted even though I use vegetation killer and weed preventer.

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