New Neighbor Says Driveway Can't Be Shared Anymore, Ends Up With Tiny Driveway

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mattstaff
Sep 4, 2021 10:00 AM EDT

It sounds like Mike was really just asking for it, man. There are some people that move into new neighbors and just proceed to start up all kinds of conflict that quite simply needn't ever have been started in the first place. Mike definitely fits the bill for that kind of villainous character. Fortunately, the neighbor that Mike messed with was more than ready to clap back with some sweet malicious compliance. Keep that neighbor drama train rolling with this post about the petty things that people did to combat neighbors.

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    Font - r/MaliciousCompliance u/VeterinarianWhole250 · 1d + Join 1 2 7 e7 S 10 10 We can't share a driveway any more? Fine, enjoy your tiny driveway. M When my SO and I moved into our house some 20 years ago, our neighbors on one side were an elderly husband and wife who we got along with very well. Our two houses shared a driveway that ran from the street to the alley behind the houses and we each had our own parking area in the back. The driveway was set up so that about 2 feet of it was on our
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    Font - Sadly, the sweet neighbors died about five years ago and their house was bought by Mike, a man who regularly bought old houses to rent or resell and who clearly didn't care about anything except profit. The first time that we ever met Mike was right after a car had hit our house. (The driver had a stroke and lost control of his car while driving down our street. The front of his car was actually inside of our house.) So here we are, freaking out because a car is literally sticking out of
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    Font - We do some investigating and discover that the property line is exactly where we knew it to be and that the map Mike was using had the property line overlay off by about 2 feet. Nevertheless Mike continues to harass us and tell us that we can't use the driveway any longer because he's going to rent the place out and it would be a liability to have us driving on his property. Fine. We'd often talked about putting in our own driveway, so now was as good a time as any. Mike was quite pleased
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    Font - The look on Mike's face when he saw where the surveyor drew our property line was absolutely priceless. The line left just barely enough room for a car to fit on his side, and he couldn't widen his driveway because it already ran right next to his house. So we used a chunk of our lawn on that side to install a nice wide driveway with river stone gravel so that it would be obvious where our driveway ended and Mike's very narrow blacktop driveway began. Mike never spoke to us again. Edit to
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    Rectangle - Edit again to remove a few details and say that Mike is not his real name. tl;dr: New neighbor says we can't share a driveway any more and ends up with a much smaller drive because of property lines. 26.5k 643 ¡↑, Share
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