They were trying to take tens of feet of our land': Entitled couple harasses new neighbors over property line, threatens legal action only to discover they're the ones invading

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Isabella Penn
Oct 19, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

When a young couple moved into their grandparents' home after it had been vacant for a year, they were immediately greeted with drama from their entitled Boomer neighbors. Apparently, the neighbors had gotten a little too comfortable using the vacant yard and weren't happy to lose that extra space. The moment the new owners moved in, the neighbors started harassing them, claiming they were invading their property and even threatening legal action.

But the best part of the story is, after getting property lines surveyed, it turned out the Boomers were wrong. Not only were the new neighbors not on their land, but the entitled couple had actually been using their property for years. Have you ever heard of a more satisfying dose of karma? In the end, the boomers got a harsh reality check. Maybe next time, they'll think twice before calling the lawyers (though we're doubtful).

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    Boomer neighbors think that bc our house was vacant for a while, our yard becomes theirs
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    We moved into our house about a year and a half ago, it was built by my girlfriend's grandparents in the 70s. It had been rented out for a while and sat vacant for a year after her last living grandparent passed. During this time the neighbors next door
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    would let their dog run through our yard, and would come back and forth through our woods freely. Anyways, we bought the house and introduced ourselves to them since our properties are pretty close. Our driveway
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    specifically is near the area where their pool is. He was friendly enough, though we knew he was from my a girlfriend's family's experience. with him. Whatever. I listened to him spout nonsense about how he was happy that
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    Mexicans didn't move in or the Russians wanted to buy it and turn it into a chop shop (what?) I wasn't about to pick a fight with our new neighbor. His wife is a weirdo, she has no job and just waddles around her yard all day screaming obscenities at her
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    poorly trained German Shepherd named "Remmy" (short for Remington because why not) whom she can't control. He has tried to attack me and our mailman bc they've taught him our yard is his playpen. She's pretends she's doing yard work
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    so she can spy on us sometimes. Honestly it's annoying but this is typical boomer neighbor stuff we've dealt with before. Anyways, after being here for about a year we started renovating. We had a bunch of
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    concrete work done, including a patio built in our yard, and another parking spot on the side of the garage to park our truck. Its a concrete slab we put in the area between our garage and their bush line. He had put property boundaries (orange plow poles) before we moved in.
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    We built our pad on our side of his marked line. We notified them via text (she only texts my gf and not me) and she was like "great, sounds good." As soon as the job was finished she put the dog on a leash and walked around the bushline pretending
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    she was walking the dog around the yard. This is not something she typically does on a leash. I heard her say something like "they put it in our back bushes." This was no bueno apparently. The next night her husband shows up at our back door at
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    dinner time and claims that our parking spot is on their side. Thus began a nightly ritual for the next two weeks where he would walk up and down his percieved property line with his boy scout compass, hem and haw and take notes on a little pad lol. Great. Some nights he
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    would come over and say things like "You know, her (my gf's) grandpa built your garage right on our property line. My wife looked it up on the town website." I looked it up the next day, they have an open source version of ArcGIS that has a disclaimer on it when you load it
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    up which says: don't use this to find your property line bc its not precise enough. Anyways, it said the nearest corner of our garage is 15-20ft away from the property line. I told him this and he said "oh but you shouldn't use the town website" Then came the comments about real estate lawyers etc.
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    I then informed him that we had a surveyor coming to which his reply was "oh don't do that." We had already intended to do this before the commenced. The surveyor marked the lines, we found out they were trying to take tens of
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    feet of our land and that our line actually went deep into "their back bushes." The edge of the parking space was more than 15 feet away from their line, which would mean the garage was like 30ft away.
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    The hemming and hawing continued for another week, I have security cam footage of her coming on our side and literally kicking the dirt. I also saw them in our woods one morning at like 7am with the compass and she was throwing a fit. It eventually stopped. I ignore
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    them at all costs now. She occasionally tries to be friendly with my gf who is very brief with her. I don't understand how these people think we can just go back to normal after they threatened us with legal action for modifying our own land.
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    Update: Thanks everyone for the kind words and advice. For further clarity, we do intend to put up a fence this upcoming spring for privacy. They put up a "fence" of arbor vitae on their side of our boundary lines that the surveyor put down so that to me acknowledges that they accept this line now. Things have
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    been quiet recently thankfully. Obv their bushes will not stop a rushing dog though, and we'd like to get one of our own down the road so a real fence is needed. I left some of "their" bushes in the back as they provide privacy at least for now.
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