Neighbor ‘go[es] nuts’ after years of harassing kind couple next door, surveys land to prove a point but is in for a karmic surprise when she loses 5ft of her yard

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Nov 3, 2024 10:00 AM EST

Nothing's worse than living next to an entitled individual who acts like it's their mission to make your life difficult. Even if you're the sweetest, kindest neighbor to them, they always find something to complain about that almost always ends in a heated dispute.

This is not a reflection of you—this is simply the way some people are. Once you call them out on their nonsense, they intend to follow you to the ends of the earth, critique everything you do, and refute any arguments made against their entitled behavior. It doesn't matter if you offer to help them with yard work or try to reason with them civilly. They will find a reason to complain.

That's why you stand back and let them do all the dirty work themselves. For the last few years, the couple in this story have tried to make things work between their neighbor and themselves. It started when the couple asked if the neighbor could refrain from mowing their lawn too close to their home, as the noise was a bother. The neighbor starts a feud from there and goes so far as to get the land surveyed so she can prove to them that she's in the right. Well, one city official visit and 5 feet less land later, it only got worse. The couple finds a way to get back at her while retaining their kind characters. Scroll below to read the full story.

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    "This lady has had it out for us ever since."
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    Neighbor has gone nuts since having our shared property line surveyed, revealing she actually has about 5 less feet than she thought. I find the whole thing hilarious.
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    My (39f) and my husband (49m) moved into this house in 2018. The neighbor in question technically lives on the cross street to ours but our driveway is adjacent to her backyard. When we moved in we were under the impression that the property extended about 3 to 4 feet-
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    ish beyond the edge of our driveway, which was fine. We've used this as a guide for where we mow that strip of lawn- generally we would mow 2.5 to 3 mower widths and it was never an issue. This lady is in her 60s or 70s I'm not really sure, like I said,
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    never had a problem at all. I had a few brief conversations with her and the same with my husband and hers during the first couple years we lived here. Not really even enough to consider them acquaintances but enough
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    to be civil and give the occasional wave. Her husband passed away in 2020 or 21, I really can't remember (I don't know if it was covid related or not but he had health issues beforehand so I'm not sure). Since then she has hired a
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    lawn care service to mow, leaf blow, etc. At the time my husband worked 2nd shift so we would sleep in a bit most days til 10 or so. Our bedroom is adjacent to our driveway and the way the room is the only way to put a bed us with the head along
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    that wall, but that wall has 2 huge windows, it's an older house and the windows are pretty thin. We started getting woken up at 7am weekly to a lawn mower and leaf blower directly outside our window. Finally my husband checked it out and
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    found the lawn boy driving his riding lawn mower up and down our driveway to access her yard and standing in our driveway to blow leaves. This would literally be less than 10 feet from our heads as we slept. He had enough and went out
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    and got this guy's attention and told him "look, this is my driveway it's not a thoroughfare for her yard because it's convenient." The kid (I dunno, early 20sish) apologized. But this lady has had it out for us ever since.
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    About a year later my teenage was raking leaves to the apron of the yard bc our town comes along and sks them up every year, he was putting them on "our side" and she came out and yelled at him saying they were on her lawn. He said he thought
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    our property was from the telephone pole over, she said it wasn't. Whatever. Maybe a month later I was returning from the store and saw she was trying to pick up sticks in her yard, the way she moves makes it clear she has back issues,
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    like she can't bend she had to crouch and reach. I asked her from my driveway "Mrs so and so, do you want some help?" No answer, maybe she didn't hear me. Louder: "Mrs so and so?" She didn't turn around just "NO!" With an attitude. Fine,
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    I went inside and figured she was still salty about the whole lawn boy situation. A few months ago my husband was hosing out our trash can and dumped the water along the edge of the street on "our strip" of land,
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    the street has storm gutters bc we get a lot of rain. She had a fit about it and came.out to yell at him. He told her he isn't some kid she can yell at and leave him alone. Within a week she hired a
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    guy to survey the land. Cone to find out her land ends on just the opposite side if the telephone pole which gives. her like 5ish less feet. She's all butthurt about it, but whatever. So about a week or so later, it's evening and I'm packing
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    up the car for my husband to go to work as he's on nights now, and I just kinda glance in the direction of her house as I start the car and see her and some guy standing at the window just staring at me. I'm literally doing the same thing I do
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    every night when I pack up the car, I dunno what the deal was. So I come inside and say and tell my husband these people are just standing there being creepy and it's unnerving. He goes. out to put something in the car, and this guy comes out
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    of her house and goes off about how we're harassing her and all that. My husband tells this guy back off I'm just trying to get ready for work. So the police get called and it's a whole dumb thing, her and this guy get trespassed
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    for our property and my husband gets trespassed for her property. I had stayed inside during the whole police talk so I didn't get anything. She's (literally) crying to the cop that we have cameras "looking into her windows". We have security cameras for the
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    same reasons most people do- in case something happens. Like we gaf about. what's going on in her place lol. The officer told her we can have 100 cameras if we want. Last week she had the city survey, they put little flags.
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    where the gas line or whatever is so we assume she's gonna build a fence. Then she cuts down this huge bush in her yard (that's always been there) so again we're getting excited she's gonna build a fence.
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    Monday morning at 6am, she's standing in her window watching me put our garbage can to the curb. Today her daughter comes and puts up a security camera pointing into our garage area and backyard, which she couldn't even see
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    until they cut the bush down. We're cracking up, it's fricken hilarious. So of course my husband now intends to get 3 more cameras for that side of the house to freak her out even more.
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    I dunno, maybe we're being petty I think it's mostly funny especially since it all started by us not wanting people in OUR driveway. Edit- I think I fixed my formatting issue.
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    Chipchop... • 18h ago • Put up a fence on what used to be her property
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    DesktopChill 18h ago • Get a wind spinner to keep her camera busy PLUS about 6 fake cameras on that side of the house. She might pop for a privacy fence if you play her right
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    • RaspberryV... 18h ago. LOL, all her cameras are going to do is show you and your family minding your own business.
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