We (my husband and I) have had several issues with a neighbor for the past five years.
It all started when he decided it was a good idea to shoot and kill a deer in his yard, and I reported him to the fish and game Warden. We live within city limits, he pointed his rifle towards the only access road into our neighborhood, and towards someone else’s home. He became aggressive with us, speaks poorly about us to other neighbors, and has harassed contractors who are doing work on our property.
Several months ago, he chose to rent out some space to a man who lives in a trailer on his property. The trailer is parked next to our fenced in yard and has full view of said yard. And for several months now, he and his tenant will watch me inside of the trailer whenever I’m in the yard and home alone. Today, I stepped outside to complete a planting project we started over the weekend, and like clockwork, they moved from the garage to the trailer to watch me while I picked up debris from the day before.
My husband is not a confrontational man, but he is sympathetically angry for me. But there isn’t really anything we can do about the situation given that they’re on their own property. I purchased some vining hydrangeas in the hopes that they fill in the gaps of the fence, but I don’t think it will be a good enough “fix”.
I’m just so tired of all this bullshit.
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There’s no way it’s legal to have someone living on his land like that in a city. Call code enforcement every day. And why didn’t you call the cops when this man shot within city limits? That’s bigger than a game issue.
Where do you live that within city limits it is legal to fire a weapon in the yard?
Can you report the rented trailer as being not legal? Is it legal? Legal to rent it out? Etc…
When people fire weapons in city limits you call the cops.
Hmmm…I wonder if that trailer is legal.
Yeah that can’t be up to code, call code enforcement, call the nonemergency police line and start getting this recorded.
Screw a few tall posts to your fence and hang a tarp to block the creepers’ view into your yard. Not really a root cause fix but it would be worth it to hear the complaints.
Where I live, you can’t make the fence higher but you can put some wooden poles in a foot inside the fence, then attach big sheets of wood or lattice or fabric to block the neighbours from watching you.
Do you have any overweight friends who would do garden work in a bikini for a while?
Is building a privacy fence a possibility for you guys? This is often a good way to put nasty neighbors out of site and out of mind for more of the day.