'Enjoy your tiny driveway': New landlord neighbor tries to commandeer couple's driveway, loses and ends up with a tiny driveway

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    Rectangle - r/MaliciousCompliance u/VeterinarianWhole250 We can't share a driveway any more? Fine, enjoy your tiny driveway.
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    Font - 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 property with the rest on the neighbor's property. The driveway was right up against the neighbor's house and about 8 feet from ours. We all ma
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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.
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    Font - Edit to answer a few questions: Mike rented the house to a nice family with kids shortly after we put the driveway in. They bought the house from Mike last year and we get along great. I give them produce, milk, and eggs whenever I have extras and her kids are very polite. Their driveway is still wide enough to drive through, and they just park in the spaces at the back of their house, so that's not a problem for them. Edit again to remove a few details and say that Mike is not his real n
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    Font - jeremyledoux • 20h We have an old lady who lives next to us. My brother and I bought our house together. We always would snow blow her drive way, help her with other chores, I even went over and fixed her toilet, her laptop, etc. My brother, when blocked in our driveway, would occasionally drive over our lawn, then out her driveway, which abutts our back yard lawn. One day we receive this rambling chicken scratch letter signed by her and two of her geriatric friends as "witnesses" to not
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    Rectangle - CoderJoe1 21h Mike never spoke to you again? Worth it. Reply Vote
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    Organism - Diabolicus666 22h Put some rocks on the property line to mark your perimeter ;-) ... VeterinarianWhole250 OP. 22h Reply + Vote There's our gravel driveway, then a little fence, then our garage, so it's very clearly marked now. Vote
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    Rectangle - dwntwnleroybrwn. 21h Do you get along with the renters? VeterinarianWhole250 OP. 21h Reply ... Vote Yes, and they purchased the house from Mike last year. They are a nice family and we get along great. + Vote
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    Font - ButltSaysOnline - 20h Neighbors across the street from where I used to live had a shared driveway situation. The houses were very close together and the driveway was in between them and there was literally just enough room for a car to get in between the houses. The two houses shared this driveway with no problem for over 50 years. Then one day one of the houses changes hands and those new people decide that it is their driveway. Many arguments later one of them finally calls out a survey
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    Font - 3 RicottaPuffs. 17h My longtime friend rented a property with a large and beautiful home. The neighbor next door, built a fence around his orchard and used the drive through their property to access a gate he had installed 100 feet along their property line. The owner spent two years in court trying to fight this guy. There was no reason for him not to have installed his gate at the highway, which was the entrance boundary for both properties. He was trying to use the access laws to gain

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