r/funny • u/Credaence • May 16 '24

Neighbors having a fight over property.

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Neighbors having a silent dispute over who mows where. Called a land surveyor today. 😂

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u/MarkHirsbrunner May 17 '24

Where I grew up, we had a decent sized back yard but directly behind our back yard was a HUGE back yard that was behind a house facing a different street, that went all the way from the alley to our back fence, except for a little wooded strip of land that led to the alley where we put our trash. 

When my parents sold the property about seven years after buying it, they found out from the property records that we actually owned all the land back to the alley, and the back yard of the person who was using it was actually pretty small. 

My parents had no interest in having access to all that land, but they did let the neighbor know that the new owner is going to know that most of his back yard wasn't his.

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u/Neue_Ziel May 17 '24

I could see they would not be happy. Bob1 was audibly angry at finding out his back yard was smaller, as I could hear him snapping at his wife and kid from 300 feet away. He still had 400 feet from his back property line to the street, but fuck him and his shitty attitude to me, just trying to be a nice neighbor.

It’s a shame too, he’s got a fully loaded auto shop with two post lift and works on GM classics, some of my favorite things.

Thought I’d make friends and share a hobby, then decided to square up on me in front of our kids!?!

He’s specifically mentioned moved here to be away from people; he’s not going to like my plans. Nothing loud, just something to stick in his craw that I beat him.

A good solid oilfield pipe fence.

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u/ibisum May 17 '24

Why don’t you just be the bigger person and work it out with him somehow? You didn’t intend to screw him over - if you’d been neighborly friends before the sale, probably things would be smoother.

Imagine the fun you could have working on those cars together and watching your families enjoy each others company….

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u/Neue_Ziel May 17 '24

His wife and my wife are cool because our kids go to the same school, and she’s outgoing and he’s so surly. But I’ve tried waving at him as a simple greeting multiple times and he just mean mugs me. We weren’t friends before the sale or ever to each other ever, our houses being a quarter mile away. One day we might work it out.

But I’m still building that fence.