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re: Any ideas on how to handle neighbor from Hell?

Posted on 3/7/16 at 2:59 pm to
Posted by LSUwag
Florida man
Member since Jan 2007
17706 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 2:59 pm to
Yes. You should get the police involved. You need to crate a paper trail to prove that the problem is her and not you. I would also install a video camera system and hide a game camera to take stills of her on your property. She is obviously mentally ill and you cannot predict how this may escalate.

I pity you. I would consider moving.
Posted by Dr RC
The Money Pit
Member since Aug 2011
59930 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:05 pm to
quote:

She demanded I hire a crew to cut back limbs over her house from an estimated 140 year old oak tree that bisects our property line. She got pissed when I told her she's responsible for her side and I'm responsible for mine. So she waited until I was gone on vacation and hired a tree trimmer who cut all the way back to the property line huge limbs, some as large as 36" in circumference. I should have sued her and the tree trimmer for endangering the health of the tree.


Technically she was within her rights to do that. You should have at least hired an arborist to look at it to make sure there was no rot and to recommend what all could safely be cut.

It's possible you could get one to say that she endangered the health of the tree but its just as likely she could hire one that will take her side.

You fricked up by not being proactive on that one.


As for the fence issues? frick her. She is out of her mind to think that you should make a fence to block off the little bit of land she left outside her new fence.

This would be like me getting mad that there is about two feet of my property between my house and my neighbors driveway. Its not his job to block off access to land I knowingly leave open.
Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19459 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:06 pm to
Dude, this is an opportunity.

please don't waste it and post everything.

Watch the movie "Neighbors".

Steal the airbags our of her car at night, and set them up under cushions in her house or place of work

Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
69016 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:10 pm to
Go over there and whip her arse.

/thread
Posted by Yunel Escobar
Member since Apr 2010
1025 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:10 pm to
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Craigslist and Backpage ads for anything and everything with her name and address, but include some crazy instructions like "must come by in person, knock loudly three times, then say I'm here for the gangbang" when she opens the door.


Haha! And post the ads away from your own wifi/home. Just get someone in another country to post the ads..
Posted by sec13rowBBseat28
St George, LA
Member since Aug 2006
15691 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:12 pm to
I most certainly have cameras installed. It's just a matter of time before this woman does something really insane. I'd also record every single interaction with her.
This post was edited on 3/7/16 at 3:14 pm
Posted by TheBoo
South to Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
5112 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:14 pm to
Yeaaa definitely TLDR.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
17090 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:19 pm to
Tell her she has to mow her 1' without coming on your property. If she does, tell her you'll have her arrested for trespassing.

I believe after a certain number of years, the fence becomes the property line and you will own the land. Google "adverse possession"

Flip her off and tell her you will own that land one day
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
130155 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:20 pm to
Strangle her in her sleep.
Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19459 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:25 pm to
Honestly the best thing you could possibly do to get back at this bitch is post her info here.
Posted by BobABooey
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2004
15447 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:27 pm to
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I took down the older fence.

I'm not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination but, if the fence was on the property line, how could you decide that it was okay to just tear the fence down without consulting her first? Yeah, it was redundant because of the new fence but that doesn't mean it was yours to tear down.

You think it's wrong that she trimmed a tree that straddles your property line but you think it's okay to tear down a fence on that same property line? Maybe I misunderstood what was going on and I agree that she sounds nuts.
Posted by bencoleman
RIP 7/19
Member since Feb 2009
37887 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:28 pm to
Sounds like a lovely woman.


I have a couple of questions


Did your sweet charitable wife happen to have an affair with her estranged husband?



Why haven't you gotten a female family member to beat her within an inch of her life?
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
Member since Sep 2006
30596 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:29 pm to
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Unless she has full ownership of the tree, which she doesn't, the law makes it clear that she can cut back limbs and even roots, so long as she does not endanger the health of the tree nor destabilize the tree by making it out of balance to one side and creating a hazard. In a perfect world, an arborist would have been consulted and advised on the best way to cut back limbs and preserve the health of the tree. We're talking a very large oak tree, so you don't just decide to cut off one half of the tree and leave all the weight on the other side of the tree and not expect it to eventually fall as a result of being unbalanced to one side.


Like I said...with it being an old oak neither of you planted it and the property lines were drawn in such a way that it created this situation with a tree being essentially within both yards whether the main trunk is within both or not.

That being said, that's kind of a messed up law if you ask me. And again...I don;t think it ought to apply in this case, but when you've got a new construction neighborhood and someone plants a tree that will obviously go well into another's yard, where does it make sense that they now get ownership of the sky and ground on all other sides because they've planted a tree that goes everywhere? When I planted my Red Maples, I planted them well within my yard so as not to inconvenience my neighbors...either from branches or potentially falling over. Seems kind of a dick move to do otherwise. But, you didn't...so I'm just venting! haha

Anyway...good luck to you.
Posted by ctiger69
Member since May 2005
30864 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:31 pm to
I would go to the pound and adopt a couple of pit bulls. Get some that love to bark at everything.
Posted by CSATiger
The Battlefield
Member since Aug 2010
6578 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:33 pm to
put up a fence on your side 10 feet high. only just put the fence part 8-10 feet of it. Electric fence!
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
48787 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:36 pm to
quote:

I'm not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination but, if the fence was on the property line, how could you decide that it was okay to just tear the fence down without consulting her first? Yeah, it was redundant because of the new fence but that doesn't mean it was yours to tear down.

You think it's wrong that she trimmed a tree that straddles your property line but you think it's okay to tear down a fence on that same property line? Maybe I misunderstood what was going on and I agree that she sounds nuts.
I understand your question very well. I contacted the city first, since the city was aware that the fence was deteriorating and creating a nuisance. I was told it could be removed by either party, as long as there existed a second fence to prevent access to the pool. I was on firm ground on this.
Posted by bdevill
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Mar 2008
12014 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:40 pm to
quote:

this woman was up on her ladder peering over into our yard and she started harassing my wife


She needs a garden hose sprayed in her face.
Posted by molsusports
Member since Jul 2004
36667 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:41 pm to
quote:

Unless she has full ownership of the tree, which she doesn't, the law makes it clear that she can cut back limbs and even roots, so long as she does not endanger the health of the tree nor destabilize the tree by making it out of balance to one side and creating a hazard


quote:

Like I said...with it being an old oak neither of you planted it and the property lines were drawn in such a way that it created this situation with a tree being essentially within both yards whether the main trunk is within both or not.

That being said, that's kind of a messed up law if you ask me. And again...I don;t think it ought to apply in this case, but when you've got a new construction neighborhood and someone plants a tree that will obviously go well into another's yard, where does it make sense that they now get ownership of the sky and ground on all other sides because they've planted a tree that goes everywhere?



Yeah, of all the things in the OP the only thing where I had sympathy for the crazy neighbor was the tree trimming. Big trees littering and obstructing parts of your lawn is not very neighborly either.

All of her other behavior deserves criticism from what the OP represents. The idea of a Youtube channel with her screaming nonsense does appeal. You could spice it up by telling her jokes or asking her idiotic questions.
Posted by RustyTiger
Daytona Beach, FL
Member since Jul 2005
958 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:45 pm to
Buy a drone and fly it over her when she is on the ladder.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
68140 posts
Posted on 3/7/16 at 3:45 pm to
Soundd like a miserable, depressed woman. She'll probably off herself soon anyway.
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