'I then filed multiple complaints against my neighbor': Guy continually floods neighbor's yard, claims he doesn't have any money to fix it until HOA steps in

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    Neighbors gutter is flooding my property didn't want to fix. Ok I'll pay. Now I won't.
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    Happened about 2 years ago friend reminded me of this today. My next door neighbors house is slightly elevated higher than mine. His gutter is not buried into a drainage system. It floods my side yard when it rains and had progressed to flooding my front yard. I have had nice
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    conversations in the past but he is totally racist when referring to the people who live across the street who are wonderful nice people. I approached him about a year ago prior and asked him if we could jointly work on drainage issues. He dismissed me immediately and said, "I don't
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    have any F'ing money to spend." I said ok no problem and let it go for 6 months. I approached him again one day when he was outside and said I would like to fix it and I will get 3 estimates on the work and I will pay for it since I am such a nice guy and I had just gotten a bonus at work and I am
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    tired of walking through a mud pit. He didn't say anything and I told him I would get back to him with a plan and need him to sign off for HOA approval. I am getting estimates around $2500 to bury his downspouts and tie in drains in the ground and run to a pop off valves in the back of the house.
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    All 3 estimates wanted to do virtually the same work at around the same cost. So I contact the HOA and put in a request to fix. They then go to him for approval and he says I will not allow him to do the work on my house. Now I am thinking, your water run off is flooding my yard and you don't
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    want to approve and allow me to pay? The HOA comes back and said we talked to him and he will does not want you fix the issue. 90% of the water is coming from his downspout. So here comes the compliance part. I ended up putting in a walkway with shrubs on the side of the house but that
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    doesn't fix the flooding issue only helps that I don't have to walk in it. I then filed multiple complaint against my neighbor with the HOA for the damaged caused. They send complaint letters to him telling him if he doesn't fix the problem he would be fined.
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    He had to hire his own company and fix his own drains the exact way that I was going to do them. Then he asked me if I was going to pay. And I smiled and told him to go !!!
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    So Neighbors downspout on house causes my yard to flood. I offered to fix it and pay for it. $2500. He stupidly said no. He ended up having to pay for the work himself and the money I would have spent on paying for it went into putting in a walkway and a bunch of other things in my garden. Cheers!
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    inglepinks Love that he then thinks you're going to pay. How self involved do you have to be to think that you can say no, then get forced to do the work yourself, then think the neighbour said he'll pay, I'll tell him I changed my mind? What?
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    TheLightingGuy Wait an HOA actually doing something good for once in a reddit post?
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    Dyolf_Knip I was taking the fillings from digging out for the shed foundation I was building. some years ago and dumping them in low spots in my yard. Neighbor comes over and asks not to fill them in too much, since pretty much the only place for his yard and downspouts to drain to is through my yard and thence to the gutter and
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    storm drain. I decide that simply filling in the low spots isn't enough, so I dig a trench for a French drain from the lowest spot (right on the property line) to the street, even have the city come out and cut a hole through the curb. Then I set up a port at the property line for him to connect his own drain pipe to (to date he hasn't). Made a friend for life, I think.
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    Beelzeb hurt Yeah we had this issue too, my neighbor is a piece of and never leaves his house though, yard chronically is overgrown and looks like . I figured he wouldn't notice if i redirected his gutters myself. Now his own yard floods, not that he'd ever notice

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