Sharing something means, well, sharing. If you only own 50% of something, you can't expect to be able to dictate the full terms of its use.
This is where easements on property, which grant someone certain rights to use what is otherwise considered "your" land, can get pretty frustrating. Presenting situations where, even though it's "your" land, you don't have full control over certain legal usage of it. However, it's worth considering that you likely agreed to those terms of use when you purchased the property. Nevertheless, some people aren't capable of such reasoning and resort to being reactionary instead.
Easements are generally thought about when it comes to rural property, where someone might have the rights to something like a driveway that crosses your property in order to get to their own, or the rights to access underground water by drilling a well and running it off some area of your property. Chances are that any rural folk reading this are well familiar with the idea.
But, they apply in closer living situations too, in places like townhouses and denser housing, where what was once one lot has been split into two (or more) which creates situations where sewer, water, power, and whathavenot are running from one portion of the property under the other in order to reach the point where they originally connected with the city mains. In these situations, you're going to end up with easements for access to these utilities for the purpose of service and repair.
Generally, your neighbor will be pretty understanding in these situations, not just because they're legally obligated but because they're a decent and "neighborly" person. It was, however, not the case in this situation, where this neighbor insisted that the homeowner of the townhouse adjacent to hers was not allowed to use their shared driveway for deliveries, going as far as stating that she would call the police for trespassing if she saw drivers pulling into the driveway again.
It's situations like this where living smack dab next to someone who is this out-of-the-gate entitled can cause you a miserable existence. But, really, even if you had a large amount of property between you and a neighbor like this, you're going to have a bad time, as they'd find some way to start a boundary dispute with you regardless.
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