'Update: She had a fence built': Entitled neighbor tries to steal property, gets told she has 5 less feet of yard space

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 25, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

Why do some neighbors feel the need to do their loudest, most disruptive chores at the crack of dawn? 

It's Saturday morning, and you've been planning to sleep in. All week, you've been dreaming about the excellent shut-eye you're going to get — from 11 PM Friday to 11 AM Saturday, you'll be cozied up in your sheets, blissfully asleep. But guess what? Your neighbor next door has plans, and they haven't consulted you or your silly little sleep schedule. No, no, they have work to do! And so, at 7 AM on a Saturday, you're ripped from your sweet dreams by the roar of a lawnmower. 

I truly don't understand why some people chose to do their loudest chores during sleeping hours. Some folks claim it's so they can miss the heat of the day by getting an early start. But by that logic, couldn't they just mow the grass at 7 PM instead? Then they could mow into the twilight hours while it gets cooler, and all of the neighbors would still be active and awake. 

These people have just about had it with their most irritating neighbor, as you can read all about down below. Next, read about the "Entitled, selfish and bratty" woman who planned her wedding on same day as her stepbrother, leading to a huge family feud: 'She knows I don't want to be her brother.'

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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-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.
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    This lady is in her 60s or 70s I'm not really sure, like I said, 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 to be civil and give the occasional wave.
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    Her husband passed away in 2020 or 21, I really can't remember (I don't know if it was co id related or not but he had health issues beforehand so I'm not sure). Since then she has hired a 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 that wall,
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    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 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
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    slept. He had enough and went out 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 s ks 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 our property was from the telephone pole over, she said it wasn't. Whatever.
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    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, 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, I went inside and figured she was
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    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, 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.
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    Within a week she hired a 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 bu hurt about it, but whatever. So about a week or so later, it's evening and I'm packing 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
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    at the window just staring at me. I'm literally doing the same thing I do 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 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.
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    So the police get called and it's a whole dumb thing, her and this guy get trespassed 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 same reasons most people do- in case something happens. Like we gaf about what's going on in her
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    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 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 cameral pointing into our garage area and backyard, which she couldn't even see until they cut the bush down.
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    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. 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.
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    Edit for info- for those mentioning a potential for dementia, I really don't know. I haven't spoken to her in a couple years. However, her daughters (she has 2, I think) are there for several hours every day; either one or both of them. If there's a concern of dementia and/or delusion, they need to seek some kind of treatment for her.
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    Also, a couple months before her husband passed, she approached me while I was outside doing something to gossip about her new next-door neighbor. This new neighbor's backyard is adjacent to the rest of our driveway. During this conversation, I mentioned the property line because I was under the impression it was a few feet or so (as I mentioned before.) Her response was "we've lived here for years, I don't know where the
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    property line is and I don't really care." UPDATE- she had a fence built. My husband was out clearing leaves off the car in the evening after the construction was finished. This is not unusual, he always clears the leaves off the car while getting ready to leave for work.
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    Well, out she came. I couldn't see her as I was on our back patio, but she was screaming like a lunatic "STAY AWAY FROM THAT FENCE!" and "GET AWAY FROM THAT FENCE!" and my personal favorite "LEAVE THAT FENCE ALONE YOU SON OF A B |!" We're happy she built a fence, he wasn't touching it, and does she think he's gonna do? Knock thing over? the
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    We have zero intention of vandalizing her fence or property. I find it super silly and even unhinged that she put up a fence, which in my mind says, "This is my side, and that it your's." But then proceeds to scream at him for being.on our side. He didn't even hear her and when I told him he didn't say anything back because he didn't want to give her a reason to call the cops or whatever.
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    So that's that for now, we'll see what, if anything happens next.
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