'What are you gonna do about it?': Tenant gets Karen neighbors evicted for blocking their driveway for over a year

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    "Driveway blocking revenge"
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    So we bought a house with a 4 plex next door. We thought we had done our homework. Drove by, walked through the neighborhood, as much as we felt comfortable with without looking like stalkers.
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    We drive by the night before closing and both ends of the driveway are suddenly blocked in by cars we hadn't noticed the umpteen times we had checked on our new house.
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    And it's tenants from the 4 plex next door. Easily 1/3rd of their vehicle is blocking one side of our very small driveway.
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    Cue months of not figuring out who the landlord is. We leave notes on the cars. Ask the driveway blockers nicely. Take pictures. Leave more notes - they even start throwing the notes in our driveway or putting them back on our car. I put up signs on our property and those get written on with sharpie and ripped down.
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    It's two separate tenants that are doing this. When I confront one tenant about damaging my signs, the response is "What are you gonna do about it?" I finally look the property owners up and call them. They eventually called me back and give me the property managers info.
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    My pictures combined with 10 or so emails, calls, video camera footage, and a year later and both tenants get evicted! We won. They're gone, being a menace to new neighbors, both with evictions on their record for not following rules on the lease.
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    scrapples000. 1 day ago congrats! just curious why you didn't call the police? blocking a driveway is illegal in most towns
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    Error404 Error420 1 day ago Why not tow them? Pretty easy and free
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    WoobieWonka OP 1 day ago Towing is tricky. It would have started WWIII. Because they also started harassing us in our fenced back yard. Police here tend to not give a unless it's homeless bothering our mayor too. We were looking for excuses - expired tags, etc but towing and getting police involved would have turned ugly.
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    9lobaldude 1 day ago This is petty revenge mixed with public service, well done!
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    Mr_Poodoo 1 day ago I would've had the cars towed each and every time.
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    potato22blue 1 day ago I'd have had them towed and even sprayed liquid on their door handles.
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    kay_bizzle. 23 hr. ago Why didn't you immediately tow them after they ignored the first note? You didn't need to do any of all that other work you did
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    HeatProfessional447 3 21 hr. ago What I like most about this story is your correct usage of the word 'cue'. :)
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    envoy_ace 1 day ago It you had to cope with that for a year

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