'Is this a joke?': Neighbor demands to buy elderly woman's driveway for $1, she refuses and builds a fence between them instead

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 27, 2024 8:00 PM EST

It has gotten to a point where it is extremely common to hear about neighborhood drama, and about entitled neighbors who think they own everything around them. Some stories are more dramatic than others, but everyone has probably dealt with a demanding neighbor at some point in their lives.

That being said, there is one line that a neighbor should never ever cross, and that is taking advantage of elderly people. Like the person in this Reddit post. This man asked his elderly neighbor if he could use part of her driveway so that his children would have space to park their cars. The neighbor agreed out of the kindness of her heart, and let them use her driveway for a few years. Then the man asked to buy that part of the driveway for the mere price of one single dollar and was shocked when the elderly woman refused. That led to a whole dispute between the two neighbors and ended with one of them selling their house and moving away.

Scroll down to read the full story and how it ended. When you are done with that, click here for another neighborhood drama story about a resident who had his car towed by one of his neighbors. 

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    "Is this a joke?"
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    Neighbor offered my mom $1 for part of her property after expanding his driveway into part of her front yard.
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    This migut be the wrong place for this, its a combo of entitlement and general terribleness. My 74 year old mom's neighbor, mid sixties male, decided he
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    needed a bigger driveway so it could fit 4 cars, including the ones belonging to his 2 children who no longer lived there. My mom somewhat reluctantly agreed, under the condition that
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    she pay for everything built over the property line and maintained the right to remove or build on top of the unreasonably large driveway.
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    A few years went buy, the neighbor wanted to sell the house, and asked my mom to sell him the part of the property he had built onto (the part which she had also paid for) for $1.
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    When she said no, all loose. broke He started showing up at her house with a video camera screaming at her for being an cruel woman who didn't want
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    him to see his kids. There is permit street parking and all residents on the block have 2 parking passes and you can request up to 6 temporary guest parking passes.
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    Eventually she decided to have a surveyor come to determine the property line, and built a fence to keep him and his family away from her. When workers started pulling up the
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    part of the driveway on her side of the property line, it got even more aggressive and ridiculous. His wife showed up crying over how they can't live without the extra driveway space.
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    They started strategically parking their cars to make it as difficult on the workers as possible. They threatened to report the workers to ICE despite having no knowledge of
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    the immigration status of the workers. In response they rather hilariously pulled up everything around and under the sons car so only the tires were still on the driveway. Then
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    the son showed up at the door and told my mom "I just made my first million dollars and I'm going to buy the house and make your life miserable".
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    One day I was in the backyard and the guy was leaning over the fence yelled "f*** you". When I turned around he said "oh I'm so sorry, I thought you were your mother".
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    They eventually sold the house for nearly 500k under asking. The new neighbors are lovely.
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    leswill315 18 hr. ago My parents had parking issues with their driveway. House was in an historic neighborhood with very few driveways, it was mostly street parking. A local developer bought the house
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    next door and paved over the back yard so he could "officially" have the single family home turned into three apartments: one on each floor. Supposedly the neighbors were to ask for driveway access to the back
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    but were never allowed to park IN the driveway. You can imagine how well that went over. Once my mother dod and I was managing the disposition of the estate I had to have one tenant or another
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    towed from the driveway almost every time I came to town. And, yes, there was a car for one of my family members who was living in the house in the driveway which had been blocked in. I've never been so happy to sell a house.
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    milasssd OP 18 hr. ago People can be so inconsiderate. I think it's very lucky that the neighbors moved because my mom loves her house, but it was getting to a point where she was afraid
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    them. I installed video cameras so she'd have a bit more peace of mind, but they were constantly trizing her. At one point, when he shoved her with the video camera
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    (who films themselves assaulting a senior citizen?) I tried to get her to take out a restraining order. I'm so glad they're gone.
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    SnooWords4839 · 18 hr. ago I love how your mom handled it!
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    milasssd OP 18 hr. ago I was very proud of her. Also, just living through that for as long as she did, she's a force of nature.
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    KombuchaBot 14 hr. ago "Oh I am sorry I thought you were your mother" lolwut Did he expect you to say "understandable, have a nice day"?
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    Lucy_Lastic 12 hr. ago What a vile way to treat an elderly person - glad to hear they took a loss and moved away
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    mcflame13 14 hr. ago If I had crazy neighbors like that. I would put up cameras all over the exterior of my house. So that I have evidence of how unhinged they are. And if they did not stop being so unhinged. I would have sued them to kingdom come.
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    DrachenofIron - 4 hr. ago This is why you never agree to a shared driveway or anything like that. Everyone stays on their own property with a fence between. You just can't trust people to not be absolute trash.
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    mon Fluffy-Doubt-3547 · 17 hr. ago I'd have made his tires flat too lololol
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    HedgehogOptimal1784 · 16 hr. ago I'm glad your mom didn't sell, she was being very generous to let them use it in the first place!
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