Entitled Neighbor Expects Free High Speed Internet, Gets Rejected

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mattstaff
Apr 17, 2021 10:00 PM EDT

Some neighbors are more unbearable than others. Some neighbors come with ungodly amounts of entitlement coursing through their veins, while others are actually genuinely nice to have around your vicinity. It sounds like this particular drama broke out over one homeowner not wanting to hook up a neighbor with free internet. Apparently that decision inspired their friend to call them out for being rude. 

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  • 01
    Font - Aita for "preventing" my neighbor from getting high speed internet? Not the A-hole Wow did this take off. Thank you all so much for the awards and your input! TL:DR Neighbor wouldn't help me get internet years ago, now that I put a ton of work into getting it installed he wants to piggyback off my work so he can have it to. I'm not preventing him from getting cable, I'm just not letting him use my lines. On to the story..
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    Font - So I recently got high-speed internet to my house after not having it for nearly a decade. I live in an area that has multiple options for broadband, but my house sits back about a mile off the public road, so most utilities need to be hard lined to work. Despite living on a large piece of property, my one and only neighbor is about 800ft away from, due to the original owners being family members and wanting their homes to be semi close. We get along, but don't interact much. They have do
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    Font - When I first moved in, I worked a deal out with our local internet provider to run a mainline to my home, if I could get the neighbor to sign up as well. Reason for that, is they allow a certain allowance per customer for construction costs, and with 2 of us, the total was high enough to cover everything. Now there is no contract, so they could cancel after the first month, and I offered to pay for their services for the first 3 months as a thank you. They declined and said they were happ
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    Organism - We planned on buying a new house eventually so I never had it installed as I didn't want to pay. With everything going on, and working from home, I finally worked a deal out, that if I did some of the construction, they would cover any extra costs for the installation. Now my neighbor sees what's going on, and comes to ask about our new internet provider. I explained what I had to go through and that he could do the same if he wanted.
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    Font - Next thing I know, an installer is knocking on my door letting my know he's going to lay cable across my driveway temporarily, and that they'll need to dig it up to go across permanently. I asked what he was talking about, and he said he was installing cable for the neighbor. I aid "no you're not, not from my property anyway." Now the neighbor is begging me to give them an easement for his cable drop.
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    Font - I said no for 2 reasons. 1. You screwed me years ago when I wanted cable originally, 2. I really don't want them digging into the driveway or having to mow around a wire on the yard all summer. I admit l'm being petty, but I don't think l'm an AH. I mentioned it to a friend, and they went off about how everyone in struggling and that I should be a good neighbor and to stop being a spiteful AH. So....? Just to add a couple things because l've gotten so many questions. Under the original de
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    Font - I approached the neighbors about a year after moving in. Texplained that I noticed we weren't serviceable by the cable company so I approached them to find out what had to be done. I explained that the cable company had to agreed to doing the work, and that I would let them do everything on my property. The cable company required me to put a deposit of 10k down, which would be returned after we both got service to our homes. I explained they didn't have to sign or do anything to proceed,
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    Font - Construction costs were around 70k dollars. 60k of that was installing the hard line back to the PED where the services hook up. So I saved 60k by doing the work myself, and the cable company covered the remainder. 15.2k 913 1, Share
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    Font - drbeerologist · 1d · Partassipant [4] 2 Awards NTA. Your original offer was fair and would not have required anything from them. They chose not to take it, which negatively impacted you. They are now asking to inconvenience you way more than they would have been inconvenienced originally, in order to take advantage of the work you had to put in because they wouldn't originally help you. G Reply 4 16.0k 3 ...
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    Font - NebulousGas • 1d NTA Not wanting your driveway dug up is not petty. I can't believe they had the cheek to ask given it could have been done free for them in the first place (if they'd taken the deal you worked out). I assume there's nothing stopping them from digging their own 3 mile trench, and paying the $10K to have it connected. There's also presumable nothing from stopping them making an initial offer of $5K (half of what you paid) in return for an easement. This scenario is pretty c
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    Rectangle - RolyPoly1320 · 1d · Partassipant [1] NTA They were happy with their DSL until they saw you basically setup infrastructure they could piggy back off of. If it came down to a resale value thing, well then they should have thought of that when you first offered. They are SOL now that the work is done on your part. G Reply 4 592 3 ...
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    Product - NTA. What comes around goes around. Maybe the neighbors will remember this when someone in the future comes to them for help with something else. My answer probably would have been different if you haven't made it so easy for them to help you when you first moved in. G Reply 4 1.1k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - dodie2599 · 1d · Partassipant [3] 3 2 Awards NTA. Easements lead to changes in property boundaries and all kinds of legal issues down the road. Stay firm on this! G Reply 4 5.3k 3 ...
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    Organism - NTA I'm surprised to say. This is entirely on the neighbors, and you're (probably?) Perfectly within your rights to not want a wire across your property for God knows how long when you've already had to do considerable construction to get to this point G Reply 4 225 3 ...
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    Font - HarleyDennis • 23h NTA. That's just what he deserves. Years ago, we were building a new house on our property and asked our neighbor for a 32 Square Foot sewer easement in the very bottom corner of their lot. It was unused and un-planted (already had a telephone pole on it) and we offered to re-pave their driveway as a thank you. For about 10 years prior, they had been using the lower acre of our property every summer for parking for their swim lesson side hustle. They said no. We paid ov
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    Font - NTA Your neighbor is an AH and brought this on themselves. As for people struggling, people are always struggling, its the nature of life for many people. That doesn't mean that they can be a thorn in your side and then benefit later by your work. So be as petty as you want and be as good a neighbor to them as they have been to you. G Reply 4 129 ...
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    Rectangle - Fierywitchburn333 • 1d NTA. Your property your rules. Guy was a jerk and reaped what he sowed. G Reply 336 ...
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    Smile - possomlover • 1d NTA at aaalll,I work for an broadband service provider and I can't imagine who in their right mind wouldn't jump at the chance to move on from DS at the first possible opportunity. G Reply 4 107 3 ...
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    Font - NTA If he really wants it that bad then he can pay you $30k seeing as you already have covered the $60K to start with. If he doesn't like it too bad, he had the opportunity years ago. G Reply 4 88 3
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    Rectangle - No_Proposal7628 · 1d ΝΤΑ. What goes around comes around. Why should you have a cable across your driveway and then a trench dug through it at some point to help your uncooperative neighbor? He didn't help you out when you asked, you don't need to help him now. G Reply 金 15
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    Font - Fasttourister • 1d NTA. They were being awful and your just having a little revenge but you're not awful. You're smart G Reply 4 51 3
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    Handwriting - firefightersgirl76• 1d NTA! Not even petty, imo. We have similar experiences, with two homes behind one problematic neighbor who happens to be between us and the main road. You are simply going with the precedent he set. G Reply 4 10 3 ...
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    Font - Shane_Diggity • 22h NTA I'm flabbergasted by how expensive that is. Also, i got to laugh because I literally went through the EXACT SAME THING Six years ago myself, trying to get our only option (XFinity) to lay high speed wire to our home. The total we were quoted was $15K. I did the same thing you did in digging the trench myself, which only reduced the cost by about $5,000. Now we're down to $10K. My neighbor was an old couple who I don't even think owned a computer so they had zero in
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    Font - gizzie123 · 23h Nta because it's your property and your equipment. That's literally it. They have no right to your stuff. G Reply ...
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