Underbidding neighbor tries to make new landowner's life difficult, they return the favor: '[He] was upset I bought the property he wanted'

When you're looking to buy property you're classically given advice by your older relatives that you should go around the neighborhood knocking on doors and asking people who live there what they think of the area. While sound advice it comes from an era long past where community was a staple part of everyday life. Nowadays you can go years without ever meeting the people living across the street so you probably don't care what they think of the area and, besides, who is honestly going to tell you that they hate where they live?

This now optimistic advice presents a few problems. What if one of those people has a personal interest in the property… or otherwise has prejudice or other motivation for discouraging you from pursuing it? If you're looking to surprise competition with an early offer you may just end up showing your hand. 

While having good neighbors and not having bad ones is important for many reasons, that will always be a grab bag… Nothing is stopping your neighbors from moving away at any point and tipping the scales in the other direction anyway.

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