Young couple gets payback on entitled neighbor after he repeatedly trespasses property: 'I’ve honestly never seen somebody shut up so quickly'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Feb 26, 2024 2:00 PM EST

When young couples move into a neighborhood, it's no surprise that some of the lifers in the neighborhood will roll their eyes at the "new blood." That being said, this entitled neighbor, whom the Redditor refers to as Tim, really thought he could get away with ongoing manipulation, endless plotting and scheming, and frequent trespassing of property without any repercussions. Young folks may be new to the neighborhood, but that in no way means that they are willing to be used and played around with. After this ordeal, it seems like Tim learned this the hard way.

The problem began with a drainage issue, and Tim requested to take a look at his neighbors' backyard to fix the issue. It turns out he never needed to do that, but he really was looking to flex his muscles and find someone else to blame (and potentially pay) for this issue. Keep scrolling below to see what happened when the young people confronted him after numerous trespassing incidents and threatened him with legal action. To all entitled neighbors out there who think they can take advantage of the newbies in the neighborhood, let this story serve as a cautionary tale.

For more stories like this, take a look at this post about another neighbor's revenge against his HOA.

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    "Entitled neighbor thinks he can wander into my back garden when he wants." AURS
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    Entitled neighbour thinks he can wander into my back garden when he wants. L Going to try and set the scene a bit here. My house backs onto a number of flats. I have a little terrace/garden out the back that is linked to my property. Below that terrace is a small patio area that is linked to the flats, which they can get access to by their own back door. There are then steps up to my area, which are gated off. I also have a locked gate that allows access to the terrace/garden because I live on a
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    A few months ago the flat behind me had a problem with their plumbing, and the drain behind was overflowing with literal Obviously an extremely nasty situation for everybody. When the owner of the flats, we will call him T, asked if he could come round the back and check the drain, of course we said yes because we're not total
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    After he checked the drain, he said he'd need somebody to come out, check it and drain it. We agreed but made it clear we would need to be made aware before it happened as stipulated in our rental agreement with the letting agent, he said fine and we got notice before any work was done so we could ensure our gate was unlocked. I thought that was the end of it, and boy was I wrong.
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    A few weeks later. I was at home and heard my front gate open. I found it odd because my boyfriend wasn't due home from work for a little while and nobody knocked on the door (the door to my house is immediately next to the gate so it's seconds between the gate opening and a knock). When the gate went a second time I looked outside to find T walking away. Obviously he had entered my property without my consent.
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    Wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt, believing that he just wanted to check the drain one last time, I didn't say anything about it. Just letting it slide. A couple of days later my boyfriend, who had given him his number to deal with the drain issue, got a phone call from him, saying he needed to gain access to the back of our property and why did we have our gate locked. As my boyfriend said we were both at work and neither could come home to deal with his request and if he needed som
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    I spoke to my boyfriend and we collectively came to the decision that we would keep the gate locked at all times, even when we were in, because I didn't feel comfortable him just walking into my property as and when he felt like it. And he did not like that.
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    The next time he tried to get in my boyfriend was at home, and I was at work. When he opened the gate he got a stream of abuse from T. Asking why we had locked the gate when he had permission to have access to the back when he wants and there is a note in our rental agreement to state this. He threatened to get solicitors on us if we didn't leave the gate open, or give him a key to get in when he wanted. It was here he said
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    because he had renovated the house he deserved to gain access on his terms, even though he wasn't our landlord! My boyfriend just told him to take it up with the letting agent if there was a problem and shut the door on his face. When I got home I combed through my rental agreement and there was no such note in place. The only thing I could find about access was we require 24 hours notice for any work or access to the property, including the garden, unless it was urgent and they required access
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    Because of this I told the letting agent (who had communication with T) that he would have to ask for access to my garden via them and I require the written notice as stipulated in my contract. They agreed to pass the message on.
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    Things cooled a bit but the problem with the drain started again. We could see it was overflowing and apparently T was aware. But we hadn't heard anything from him or the letting agent about when somebody would come and deal with it. This was when i got my own back. I'm probably a bad person for this but at this stage I had enough.
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    T turned up with the drainage company on a day that I was at home unwell. I was lying on the sofa when I heard a van pull up and somebody try to open the gate. But of course it was locked. The bell went and I considered getting up and answering the door, but when I heard T's voice I decided I wasn't going to feed his entitlement. I just lay back down, stuck my earplugs in and tried to go back to sleep. For the next 30 or so minutes he tried to get in. Constantly ringing the bell,
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    knocking loudly on my window, shouting into the house, screaming at what I can only assume was my boyfriend on the phone. But I ignored it all. Eventually he got the message and left. When my boyfriend came home from work he came back to give us a verbal dressing down, threatening legal action again etc. because he needed access to the property and we didn't provide it.
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    I pointed out that neither of us were in when he turned up (my blinds were shut and nobody can see in, so he didn't know I was off sick); and he didn't give us the agreed notice that he would require access and in the future I will no longer be dealing with him. If he wants access to go through the letting agent, and the next time I find him in my garden I'm ringing the police for trespassing.
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    He was still threatening me so I told him to go for it because I get free legal advice due to a membership I had and if he really wants to go down that route be my guest. I've honestly never seen somebody shut up so quickly. He said he'd go through the letting agent in the future and I said good choice and shut the door in his face.
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    After that he solely dealt with the letting agent and followed all instructions once he knew I had access to free legal advice. The best part about this whole incident was, he could have checked the drain from his own property and never needed access to my garden. He just wanted to flex his muscles and thought he could bully us because we're a young couple.
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    HankThrill69420 - 18 hr. ago i just don't understand the thought process of cretins like this. like what in the was the motivation is he just a here, is he a bored landlord that has nothing better to do? 285 Reply Share
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    kaybhafc90 OP. 18 hr. ago I think it was the latter. He just had nothing better to do and believed that because he renovated this property he could just walk into the gate when he wanted. I mean I wouldn't even allow that with my own landlord. I certainly wasn't going to let him think he could do it. I gave him way too much leeway at the start tbh. Reply Share 208
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    Aesient 18 hr. ago Heck I had my landlord (private rental) knock on the door to ask if he could have access to the backyard to check something on his shed (I rent the house, yard and garage, but there is a large shed attached to the garage that is excluded in the lease full of my landlords items. Shed is accessible without setting foot on the land I rent). Gave him the go ahead with no problem.
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    A few weeks later he contacts me again and asks if I'm alright with him accessing his shed from the backyard with limited notice because he was trying to have work done to it, but the work wasn't going to be easily scheduled ahead (friend of his doing him a favour during slow periods). I ask what exactly he needs access to. He takes me around his shed pointing out what he is getting done and apologetically saying which parts will need access through "my areas" to get done. I tell him he can have
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    If he had just randomly turned up and started working on his shed parked in the backyard and tearing up the grass I may have been ↑ 72 Reply Share
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    kaybhafc90 OP. 10 hr. ago Absolutely. I was accommodating to him at the start when he asked for permission to go through to check. But it was when he walked onto my property as and when he felt like it I had enough. That day he booked drainage and just expected to get in was the final straw for me. I'm glad I didn't let him in because I think he'd have continued with the entitlement if I had.
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