'They got hit with more fines': Dude takes on his terrible next-door neighbor's in all-out neighborhood battle

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Sep 2, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

There's an old saying that advises one to "keep their friends close, and their enemies closer." Without a doubt, whoever came up with this clearly had no idea what they were on about… because having your enemies close isn't much fun for anyone, and—certainly, having your enemies residing directly next door to you— permanently within arm's reach—is much too close. If you ever find yourself in this situation, you'll find yourself also wishing that they were even a little bit further away. 

Heck, even living with (or next door to) one's friends can be too close for comfort, with the double-edged sword of close proximity revealing what you once thought were simple personality quirks to be insufferable and intolerable behaviors. So, in that way, there has been many a friend who has been kept too close as well, so it's hard to imagine having one's enemies even closer than that. What's even left at that point? Inviting them into your own bed? While stirred emotions certainly can be evocative and confusing… and while this certainly could resolve outstanding hard feelings… it remains a fact that this doesn't seem like sound advice—and should not be attempted.

Still, when this dude found himself squaring up against his next-door neighbors, he came to find that this was an uncomfortably close place for his enemies to be. He did not attempt to bring them even closer to himself—but still managed to come out on top in the end.

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    Font - r/ProRevenge Posted by u/Chicken Fashion Show I did to my neighbor what they did to others. To start, I bought a house with the intention of doing a flip. When I moved in the self appointed "block captain" let me know who they were the first day. Sadly, they were my next door neighbors. I tried to be friendly but listening to them I realized how horrible they were and tried to keep still be civil. My significant other kept saying "just wait for it to be our turn."
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    Font - They bragged about, though their contacts with the city, forcing people to make improvements on their houses, getting undesirable renters out of the houses and just harassing people in general.
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    Font - As I worked on flipping my house the wife became a worse thorn in my side. To start, she demanded I put up a fence so people would quit cutting though my yard and scaring her. Then, her and the husband demanded I take care of the weeds in the yard or they will do it and bill me. After that a storm a tree scraped their shingles and they asked for $1,200 to replace them. The tree was there before I moved in and by coed they are responsible to cut back the branches to the property line. When
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    Font - Needless to say I began to ignore to them so she became a constant gnat and moved onto another target. Then one day as I was tearing down my deck for a patio I realized she put a feral cat colony on a section of my property, I had wondered why all the stray cats were around and I finally found out. I reached out to the city and demanded it be removed, but they said she followed the law on getting it in place. As I tried to to get it shut down
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    Font - she began unhinged behavior. from standing in her windows staring at me, yelling out the window at me to hitting the fence with items to scare my dog. Here my revenge started.
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    Font - I started by filing a HRO/Harassment Restraining Order against the wife and had it granted ex parte with the evidence I provided, or course she contested as it was 'defamatory to her character. Before the hearing the husband tried to physically intimidate me. So I filed one against him and it was also granted ex parte. In the hearing it came up that there was and HRO against the husband as well, they dogged being served until I had it published as a means of service.
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    Font - I started to make complaints about them and their house. Also, I made police calls when necessary. As I did this the other neighbors began to realize they could do to them what they had done to them and others.
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    Font - For example, as I was having my front door replaced, needing a building work permit. I knew they were doing internal remodeling so I called a city inspector and they were fined for not a having permit. As she ranted at the inspector he looked at my window and saw I had mine displayed. Their back porch became horded so I a made another call to a city inspector and they had to clear
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    Font - it out. Then they had a broken window on the porch door so I called an inspector and they had to replace the door. Next the paint on their house was peeling so I called an inspector and they had to repaint, the inspector also found the wood underneath was rotted along with their front porch was sloping. So, they needed to fix the front porch, sections of wood and repaint.
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    Font - Through all this they had up cameras to prove they were not doing the things I said i.e. hitting the fence. They also pointed a camera at my back yard. As it was legal to point a camera into my yard and a part of my HRO was her intrusive watching behaviors I
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    Font - gave the camera the middle finger on my way to and from my garage. When she complained, with the city tiring of her, their response was she was admitting to intrusively watching me.
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    Font - The fight over the cat colony came to an end when I realized one of the cats had a serious disease and I began to capture them and turn them into animal control. Don't worry, animal control was part of the feral cat program so they would not be put down but the neighbor would have to pay a fine to get each cat out or have the colony closed. Finally I caught the sick one and it had rabies, part of the program was for her
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    Font - to capture each new cat have it vaccinated. Something she admitted to willing not doing on her goFundme for the colony. I soon had the goFundme shut down when I provided the evidence she was not using the funds as she stated they were going to be used.
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    Font - The city now had to act to close the colony, the person at animal control who wouldn't respond to my complaints was fired. The neighbors called in a city mediator who we met with presented all the evidence and said we would not meet with them, and provided extremely racist tweets they made about neighbors. The city cut ties with them as "community leaders."
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    Font - With their power to bully gone and having spent what I can only imagine in fines and repairs, like they did to numerous other neighbors. After fourteen years they sold their house and moved out, way out to the suburbs where they only have one neighbor about fifty
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    Font - yards away. They knew I was wrapping up my flip and would be out in less then a year. Without being able to bully their neighbors, with people having their back, they seemed to have no further reason to stay. Needless to say I did several more things to wear them down.
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    Font - Finally, when I listed my house it was sold while theirs was still on the market. As a final F-you to them I reported to the county they had both the new and old house listed as their homestead, meaning they were paying less in property taxes so they got hit in with more fines on my way out.
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    Font - -MarshallMellow- . You flipped the house, you flipped them off, and you flipped the tables on them. What didn't you flip? 4.2k
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    Font - llcooljessie. Cut down your trees? Where are all the amateur tree lawyers at? 2.1k
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    Font - khuldrim I know right? That's a lot of money you could've gotten... 754
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    Font - Dominion Ghost It's Treeson then. 509
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    Font - DoneScutch Curios in how someone can "put" a coboly of stray cats somewhere like that 439
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    Font - The_Spongebrain This ticks every box on the "how to legally f. ck with a public nuisance neighbor" and I love it 241
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    Font - puhleez420 Thats not pro, my friend, that's nuclear. 149 B
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