Well i just moved to a cul de sac in brooklyn park and one of my new neighbors is just being a pain. Heres my problem, this guy has a basketball court and has decided to put it right next to my driveway, at first i was like ehhh its okay i aint going to complain about something like that. Heres where everything goes wrong one day as i come home his kids are playing outside i slowly pull up thinking hey they'll just move out of the way but boy was i wrong. These kids were like blind and oblivious to me trying to get into my driveway i had to honk and ask them to get out of the way(f**en idiots), then as of three days ago his basketball court gets blown down by the high winds we had. The pole decides to break from the base and and rest in midair with the backboard holding it up. The guy decides to just leave it there with the pole poking into my driveway. I have been pondering what to do for the last three days and want to know if theres any city codes being broken here and if you guys had any suggestions on how to deal with neighbors like this.
you could have someone from the city come out and zone it for you and then start hacking up his bball court
yea definatey a p3nix. Oh and dude has this van that has an alarm that is so sensitive it goes off every damn hour.
If his shyte is hanging in your airspace, move it at your leis/pleasure. If he complains, tell him to eat penix and call the PoPo to enforce it.
haha yes! i was hoping someone else was down for the defecation proclimation, eplubus poopem. i cant spell you get the point.
hahaha i can see it now you doing your thing and him opening his front door to find you doing your thing.:laugh:
Just grab it and move it out of your way. If he whines, ask him why he is such a **** bag. If he gets pissed, tell him to lick the sweat from your balls.
Do some donuts in his front yard. then if he says anything to you deny deny deny(even funnier if you deny it with a muddy car behind you!)
Just be happy that you don't have to deal with the BP final four in your driveway anymore. You could always find some piece of junk thing you have lying around the house/garage and put it in his driveway...
I'd just call the city and get them to mark property lines. When his crap remains on your property, treat it like it yours, and beat the crap out of it with a sledge hammer...all while listening to Peter Gabriel.... LOL
All the responses are funny. But the best solution would be to get the city to come out and mark the boundries of the yard. Once the yard boundries are marked, you can do what you want. If there is stuff of his in your yard, point out the yard markers and say "This is in my yard, move it please." If he doesn't, then feel free to contact the police. Smashing things up or ****ting on them is only going to get you in trouble.
Before calling the surveyor (the city usually doesn't do that, and its costs money) I say trying to reason with him. If he is a **** bag about it, then proceed with the surveying, and further options. Have you ever heard of fish emulsion? It is hte most foul smelling stuff that you can buy in many a garden center.....
^^^^^ do what he says y does it cost money for a surveyor....i thought thats what taxes are for....o well
I'm always down with the poop solution. I just don't think it is going to get you the results you want in this situation. The problem here being that it violates laws. If he is violating the law by having his junk in your yard, then go through legal means to get it done. Most yard boundries are marked by a metal stake that is placed by the city at the time of surveying. If this is a subdivision lot, typically there are 4 corners to the yard. Even on culdesacs. Find the one that marks the boundry between the yards in the front, then find the one that marks the boundry in the back. Stick a pole in the ground on either end, set a laser pointer on the top of one pole and point it at the other till you see the dot on the other pole. If something of his obstructs that dot, he is in your yard and you have every right to contact the city about it. Or just pay the surveyor to do it. Eitherway, once you have the legal methods complete, you will have the information and facts to tell him to move it. If he tries to blow you off, tell him that everything over the line in my yard now belongs to you and you will do with it as you please. My suggestion would be to take a sawzall to whatever it is and cut it exactly at the line of the yard. Do this the day before trash day and try to do it when he isn't around. Cut the pieces off, toss them in the garbage. Problem solved. Another thing I'd do, is stop by Menards. They have sectional fencing, little fence pieces you buy and stake down, They aren't that expensive. Buy the ugliest ones you can find, the cheap plastic ones that look like white picket. Put those just on the boundry between your yards. That way it isn't permanent, isn't expensive, and you can make a defined line between the two properties and at the same time make an obvious statement about how pissed you are. Nothing says "I hate your ass" like putting up a fence. And, if he moves out, you can meet your new neighbors and inform them that the fence is coming down because the rotten ass holes that lived there are gone.
this thread needs pics or mspaint. oh and if you go here you can put in your address and get some idea of where the property lines are. http://gis.co.hennepin.mn.us/HCPropertyMap/default.aspx Once you have it up, go to the layers tab, check "lot dimensions" and "2006 Aerial Photos"
The city doesn't do surveys, you have to hire a company to do that. The city might have a copy of a past survey on file. Usually when you build or add on to your house you need to give them an updated copy of the survey. You can go get a copy of that for a few bucks, and get a copy of your surrounding neighbor's surveys as well while you're at it, Then you can try to find the property markers yourself. Just figure out where your property line is and build a fence or plant a row of trees or something like that.
^ I vote this too. Wear an orange ball of hair and a polka dot suit . you could probably have a gang of chipotle poopers come get him while he's writhing in pain on the ground too. -might be a little excessive.
Property lines aren't always definitive though. My we are having this issue with our neighbor. If a piece of someone's property is knowing used by someone else for longer than 15 years, then the owner relinquishes that property, or something like that. Its called adverse possession if you want to look it up. We have an overhang on the side of our garage. One day our neighbor got the lot surveyed because he wants to put up a fence so no one can see the 8 vehicles and other garbage he has on a 65ft wide lot in Shakopee. He said te overhang was a problem. I said it was his problem because its been there for 30 years and his property changed hands three times with it there, so get ****ed. Letters went back and forth between lawyers a few times and its been quiet since.
heres a picture the red dot is where its at rite now. Could it be on city property from the look of it???
Unfortunately it appears that it is currently on city property. But, try talking to him about moving it over to the right side of his driveway, looks like there is nothing over there? If he refuses to be reasonable, then borrow someone's paintball gun and go to town on his kids while they are out there. Jk. But seriously, if the kids don't get out of your way while you are pulling in, run them over, and claim the subie rumblez were too loud for you to hear the gleeful sounds of children playing, and that your hood scoop blocked them from view, totally their fault.... Crappy situation when people are jerks.
All this talk of pooping. :biggrin: Honestly, if he's going to be your neighbor you need to get along, otherwise living there could suck, you don't to be enemies with someone you have to see daily. The best approach? I would've approached him and mentioned I noticed it was broken and offer to help him fix it or move it. Being neighborly of course. That alone won't usually put a person on the defense and he probably would've acknowledged it needed to be fixed or moved and got it taken care of. Unless of course he's being a complete jerk. give him a couple days, let him take action. If you don't see any changes within a couple days go back over there and ask him to move it. I personally wouldn't get any third parties involved unless there was no other way around it.
You didn't hear it from me...fish emulsion or some tuna/sardine juice, or maybee some milk, poured in the defroster vents...he'll probably ditch the van within a month. (I'd never do that though...I belive in Karma)
