Entitled neighbor repeatedly enters couple's backyard property unannounced, neighbor escalates issue to the HOA and couple escalates issue to the police: ‘Please send help’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
May 17, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Fences exist for multiple reasons, but the biggest one is privacy. Most humans live in fairly close quarters with one another, so measures are put in place to provide each homeowner with some semblance of privacy, especially in their backyards. Nobody wants a peeping Tom peeking over their wooden fence in the early morning or late night hours of the day, and nobody should have to deal with that type of nosiness.

You can take all the measures humanly possible, and still have to deal with the nosiness of a very persistent neighbor with loads of time on their hands. They'll try their best to give you a million excuses for why they're looking into your yard, wandering on your lawn, and the like. Don't give in and let it slide. If you have animals, you have the right to let them loose on your own property. If the neighbor happens to be trespassing, they have no grounds to report you for loose animals. This is what's going on in the next story you're about to read, and the homeowner is seeking police intervention as a result. Scroll to read the full story.

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  • "NFH keeps entering my property"

    My wife and I moved into this neighborhood two years ago, and immediately things started off weird. We have a 7 foot tall privacy fence around our backyard and our neighbor keeps coming into our backyard without our permission.
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  • Before we moved in, we contacted our realtor to see if he would be willing to repair his part of the fence before we moved in. We have some really active dogs, and his side of our privacy fence is completely rotten. I knew if it wasn't.
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  • fixed soon it would crumble. The current occupants asked him and he never responded, and at closing they gave us his phone number and I texted him and asked about it, offering to pay
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  • half, and he never responded. So then when we moved in, one of the first things my dogs did was walk through his fence, crumbling the boards around him (I genuinely don't know how a
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  • strong breeze hasn't turned this thing to mulch). The neighbor almost immediately came outside screaming about how my dogs were destroying his fence and yada yada. I argued with
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  • him for a while, saying the fence was garbage, literally crumbled a piece of it in my hand, and offered again to pay half to replace the fence. He told me to just repair it myself and it would be ok.
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  • We keep our trash can in the backyard for convenience, and our first week in the house, our neighbor returned the trash can from the roadside to the spot in the back yard, entering through the
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  • privacy fence to do so. I told him I appreciated the thought, and asked if he could leave the trash cans outside the fence in the future. He agreed and that hasn't been a problem since.
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  • A couple months after that month after that he rang my doorbell one day to let me know I had a water main leak in my back yard. His buddy was over, they noticed the ground was wet even though it hadn't rained recently, and decided to investigate. They followed
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  • the source into our backyard while my wife and I were at work. I told him I appreciated the info, but I wasn't comfortable with a man I barely knew and a man I don't know entering my backyard without my permission. He seemed understanding, and I thought we had finally resolved the issue. Still to be cautious, I bought a combo lock for our gate.
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  • The winter months were relatively uneventful and then at the start of spring I tore my ACL, so I wasn't able to mow, and the mower is too heavy for my wife. I asked our neighbor if I could pay him to mow our yard for me since
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  • he kept his yard immaculate, and he agreed and took care of it all summer. Since he works from home, he sometimes mowed during the day, while my wife and I were at work. He
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  • said he needed the combination for the lock, and I hesitantly gave it to him. Seemed like we were on a good footing, and maybe I was overreacting. He was doing me a big favor and the least I could do was show him some trust.
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  • Once again the winter months were uneventful, and that brings us to the past two weeks. I started a new job that lets me work from home several days a week, so I'm actually around to see these shenanigans I guess. One
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  • day my dogs start absolutely coming. unglued trying to get into the backyard, so I let them out and follow them, and there's the neighbor, standing in our backyard, being harassed by my dogs (they're peaceful
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  • just scary) and he's screaming at me to get my dogs. I demanded to know what he was doing in my backyard, and he said he was inspecting the fence from my side to see how bad it was. I said that was fine but to let me know first.
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  • Not even three days after that my dogs freak out again, and I look out the window and he's taking lumber out of my shed. When I stepped outside and confronted him about it, he said the old neighbor used to share lumber with him. I told him I wasn't the old
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  • neighbor, I didn't appreciate having him on my property, and I didn't do any woodworking, all the lumber was left by the previous owners, so he could have all of it. And I proceeded to carry all the lumber to his garage. I then immediately went to the store and got a new combo lock.
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  • Two days ago, once again, my dogs freak out, and he's in my backyard, taking pictures of my house and yard. I decide to let him panic this time and let the dogs loose again. He practically himself, I demand he get off my property before I call the police, he runs over to the gate, and climbs back. over the fence.
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  • Yesterday I get an email from the HOA saying my backyard was unkept and unsightly, the repairs I did to the fence were not compliant with the HOA guidelines, and I have 3 days to fix it before I start incurring fees. Attached to the email were pictures taken from my backyard. Mind you, no one sees
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  • this part of my yard or the fence except me (and my neighbor apparently). And the reason it's unkept is I'm about to do a massive amount of landscaping to my backyard and figured it wasn't worth the effort until all my stuff came in.
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  • I haven't confronted the neighbor yet, and I haven't responded to the HOA yet. I'm trying to figure out a course of action to permanently get this creep off my property and get the HOA off my a . Also trying to figure out how to make this landscaping project the most anti-nosy-neighbor retreat possible. Please send help.
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  • Edit 1: I somehow knew some people were going to fixate on my dogs as the real problem here please note, I am aware I need to keep my dogs on my property, this was a one time incident as soon as I moved in. Due to the overwhelming advice to get police involved, I've ordered a couple security cameras for pickup this afternoon.
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  • snafuminder Put up cameras and start reporting him for tresspass and harrassment EVERY time.
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  • Nsect66 Let the HOA know you'll take care of the issues and also that you'll be reporting your neighbor for trespass with the pictures as evidence. See if they change their tune or double down...
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