Neighbor complains resident is taking over their yard, leading resident to resurvey the properties, discovers entitled neighbor built their house too close to the property line: ‘Their whole house might be torn down’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jun 11, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

Sometimes, giving entitled people exactly what they want can actually benefit you a lot more than you can imagine. 

The very definition of an entitled person is someone who thinks they deserve or are privileged to special treatment. They fully believe they are owed certain things and are not afriad to demand them. 

Naturally, the way one deals with entitled people can go two ways – you either refuse to give in to their entitlement, and fight for what you think is right, or you let them have what they want, either because you don't have the energy to argue, or because you believe karma will eventually teach them a lesson for you.

When it comes to entitled neighbors, many people choose the latter option, just so they can keep the peace. Since their involvement with their entitled neighbor is ongoing, and is not a one-time thing, giving them what they want might just be the easier option, which is what guided the neighbors in the story below to take the actions that they did.

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  • Luckily, karma was on their side, because even after they gave the entitled neighbors what they demanded, they still won.

    Keep scrolling to read the full story.

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    Bet you’re sorry now!

    Many years ago, after decades of saving, my husband and I were doing well enough to finally build our dream home. After we moved in, we still had to have our yard leveled and
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    sodded and arranged it early the next spring. That night, I was out watering the backyard sod when I saw my neighbours wife, Chris, using a measuring tape between our homes. I
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    asked her if everything was okay and she said that we had sodded a section of their yard. I told her we had followed the sticks that the builder had left.
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    She said the builders must have scoowed up and r' dely insisted that we had stolen part of their yard.
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    Not wanting to have an ongoing beef with her and her husband, Keith, we agreed to have our property re- surveyed. When we did, we got one of a surprise. The
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    actual property line wasn't halfway between our two houses as we believed, it was about a foot and a half away from the side of their house.
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    They owned a construction company and had built their house too close to the property line. This was an insane mistake for a professional!
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    Still wanting to be good neighbours, we offered to split the cost and labour of a "good. neighbour" fence using one of the 4 accepted fence styles allowed. My husband kept
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    asking Keith when he wanted to start but he always had one excuse after another. Then Keith rudely told Dan to stop bothering him. Dan was furious. He bought all the
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    materials and built the fence himself. He had been planning to put the fence halfway between our houses but our neighbour was so ride that Dan built the fence just inside
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    our property line making the neighbours house look terrible. The neighbours husband came over ped as h l but Dan reminded him that HE and his
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    wife wanted a new property survey and HE had put off the fence for months. Our fence was magnificent, because Dan was a carpenter and I'm a great painter. The neighbours
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    husband built a fence next to ours but it was ugly, badly built and not one of the approved designs. He was forced to tear it down later.
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    DrHugh It would be worth giving the surgery survey to the local permitting board. They may have violated setback limits. In that case, their whole house might have to be torn down.
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    Contrantier What was the point of the idiot neighbor building a second worse fence after the first one was already up? Poor beaten man doesn't understand how power plays work, because that was a loser walk he did there.
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    Toolongreadanyway The badly constructed fence doesn't surprise me after hearing he isn't smart enough to properly build his house in the right space. What's the
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    required set off for your area? It would be sad if their house was too close to the property line. LOL!
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