'[He] admitted to stealing my land': Homeowner serves property line survey papers to her entitled neighbor after he audaciously builds a driveway over her garden

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Mar 7, 2025 5:00 PM EST

When it comes to land disputes, it helps to step up to bat with irrefutable evidence. This woman hit a home run when it came to a property disagreement with her neighbor, by scrounging up some long-lost evidence that was completely undeniable. 

Since the dawn of time, humans have fought over land. Greedily devouring every scrap of their property, it's easy to see how a person might overstep their boundary line a little. While there is a little room for leeway—if you're a kind and respectful neighbor—crossing the line can become crossing the line, especially if you have a bad attitude. We all make mistakes sometimes, but the entitled neighbor in this next story knew he was overstepping his boundary line. And were he simply waltzing through or accidentally crossing into this woman's property, that might have been forgivable; but when he started demolishing her beloved garden to make way for his huge, ugly extended driveway, she put her foot down. 

Read on to see how this woman dredged up documents of the past to win back several feet of her encroached property line, taking back what's hers once and for all. 

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    It takes a certain audacity to assume that someone else's well-tended garden is demolishable. To assume, without any sort of proof or statute, that you could rightfully pour concrete to expand your driveway in any direction you want is pretty entitled. But luckily, the little guy in this story was able to hurl a stone of truth at her neighborhood Goliath, taking him to court over stolen lands.

  • 2 MONTH AGO

    If you know about my situation, I have a narcissistic neighbor who had yelled at me like I'm a 12 year old kid because he didn't like the fact my yard was dry. He then decides to rip up my front yard to widen his already large driveway
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  • on an early Saturday morning at around 5:00 AM without informing me. I was sound asleep at that time, enjoying my day off from work. I had no idea he was ripping my yard out.
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  • Not only that, but he now parks his vehicles right on the property line. The vehicles are SO CLOSE that several people who stepped out of the vehicle had to step onto my yard. I have video footage thanks
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  • to Google Nest- date and time stamped. I saved the videos and sent them to my real estate attorney. He's currently reviewing and will get back to me this week to inform me how we shall proceed. Image attached for reference of careless and disrespectful neighbor.
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  • So, my attorney got as frustrated as I did that there was no living survey anywhere. The county didn't have it, the lender didn't have it, the home ownership insurance company didn't have it, the title company didn't have it.
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  • We contacted the builder and they didn't have it! So, he spoke to my lender and the lender has now requested a survey. My attorney said once that's done, we move forward with suing my neighbor and making him pay to restore the damages.
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  • 1 DAY LATER

    DODO ATTORNEY GOT LENDER TO PAY FOR SURVEY! LENDER SAID I SHOULD HEAR BACK FROM THEM IN 3 DAYS!!
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  • Present day: UPDATE

    UPDATE: My neighbor ripped up my yard and poured concrete to expand his driveway. I'm a single woman homeowner, so I suspect he thought I wouldn't notice or care. I
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  • did my research and discovered he was supposed to have a survey done. I got the survey done and my attorney prepared a letter. The next day, crewmen came out removed the concrete and gave
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  • me my yard back. He admitted that he knew and he apologized. NEXT STEP: Build a fence sol don't have to see that J A&&HOLE neighbor of mine ever again!!
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  • HotRodHomebody Yay! Nice outcome! Good on you. I like the fact that he apologized, even though he is an AH, at least he may not behave like a sworn enemy and be horrible in countless other ways in retaliation. I mean, one can hope.
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  • HotRodHomebody Yay! Nice outcome! Good on you. I like the fact that he apologized, even though he is an AH, at least he may not behave like a sworn enemy and be horrible in countless other ways in retaliation. I mean, one can hope.
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  • reddoorinthewoods It would be bad enough if he just didn't check, but the fact that he knew?! Unconscionable
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  • cryssHappy Oh, he knew you would see and care. He presumed a single woman would not be proactive to protect her own interests. Good for you. Congrats!
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  • 2BBIZY Whenever I purchased a house, I always insisted on a survey. You would be surprised how neighbors take advantage of people to expand a driveway, cut trees, and build fences.
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  • ChthonicFractal Figure out what "Spite fence" laws are in effect where you live and go right to the edge of what you can do legally.
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  • ShallotSilly4944 Good for you! I had a neighbor drop a shed on the corner of my lot once, completely ignoring the setback code and the property line. County made them move the shed, but in doing so they tore up my yard and septic field. Strong believer in fences.
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  • msbelle13. Nice. Hope you got him admitting to knowingly going this in writing!
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