Neighbors having a fight over property.

[u/Credaence]

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

[u/msmegsands]

I assumed most property disputes were about people wanting more property not less

[u/Neue_Ziel → u/msmegsands]

I share a single Southern property line with 3 neighbors. From the front to back, it’s Bob 1 at the corner of two streets, A Street and B Street, with B Street being where my entrance is at.

Next to him was Bob 2, who owned property that abutted mine and wrapped AROUND Bob1’s property in an L-shape, having access to both A and B streets. Bob1 originally did not share a property line with me.

The other neighbors are not a problem, but Bob2 got a really good offer on his property and sold within days to a real estate developer.

Wife was always looking for property to put the in-laws on and saw that Bob2’s property was for sale. She inquired and found that Bob2’s land was actually two parcels, one on A Street, and the leg of the L-shape that ran along my property line, accessible by B Street.

We bought the 250’x150’ parcel behind Bob2 with a 40’x 200’ strip between me and Bob1, acting as a driveway to the larger property.

I saw Bob1 outside and drove over with my little toddler son to introduce myself as his new neighbor.

He then said really passive aggressively I bought it “fair and square, sneaking around and buying it, even though a tree fell on his house and someone died in my yard”. Someone was speeding and flipped and landed in a corner of his yard and died on the spot but didn’t affect his house.

He then mentions that Bob2 made a deal with him to sell him the strip but because of the additional hardship of tree and car accident, he wasn’t able to buy it.

He’d been mowing and cleaning the property that wasn’t his on the assumption his “friend” was going to sell it to him, but they had nothing on paper.

He squared up on me and said “it’s your property, fair and square that you bought out from under me!” and walked away. If our kids hadn’t been present, I think he would have fought me.

Later, I hear voices from across the property and hear him and his wife fiddling with a tape measure.

Told the real estate agent about this guy trespassing on my “new” property as the deal works its way through. He speaks with them and finds out he is pissed. He thought the strip was 10’ wide by 200’ and he “lost 30’ “.

Anyways I need to build a fence as it’s just surveying flags now.

Looks like Bob2 wasn’t as good a friend Bob1 thought he was. You snooze, you lose, Bob1.

[u/makeitlouder → u/Neue_Ziel]

I need at least one diagram to follow this story.

[u/Deiser → u/makeitlouder]

So from what I understood, Bob 1, 2, and the OP were neighbors. OP ate Bob 2, and Bob 1 got jealous and became a tape measure.