I took my neighbor to court - and won
 

Six months ago the guy who owns the house next to came over and asked me to sign this form giving my permission to allow him to build a "sidewalk" from his driveway to the gate of his back yard. I'm a nice guy - sure, no problem.

Suddenly this guy moves in running his landscaping business from his house and he extends his driveway directly to my property line. In the process he took out a tree, and a number of bushes. Now instead of looking out and seeing a nice peaceful scene, I see nothing but concrete and his small fleet of work trucks.

So, I took him to court and bitch smacked his ass down. He was forced to remove some of the concrete to conform with city code. On top of that in it's place he has to plant trees that will prevent me from seeing his damn driveway.

Here's a picture of what it looks like minus the concrete.

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/rock/neighbor.jpg

The homeowners association also put a lien on the house for parking on the street over night ( he has six trucks for his business ) and for not putting away his garbage. Laugh if you want and poke fun at me, but I paid $500k for my house (it's worth half of that now) and I'm not going to live in the ghetto. He can put his fucking garbage away.

Next up..... We need to talk about his business license (which he doesn't seem to have, at least it's not on his business card) and then we can talk about zoning. Sorry, I don't like being woken up at 6am every morning by his Mexican crew hitching up their trucks and trailers ).

Keep it up!

thats why i never bought anything in the last 20 years since i moved out from my parents. if i don't like it somewhere i cancel and move. but i can fully understand you

youd think city code enforcers would have stopped em while pouring the concrete.

shit man, on my street if you put your garbage cans out too early in the day you can get fined.

4 pm is the time you can put your cans out lol

good for you

Fuck that guy.. that's rediculous. I know times are tough, and maybe he's saving money by doing everything from home (sounds like a new situation), but enough is enough! :)

Congrats,hopefully buddy doesn't hold a grudge and do shit to you

Someone has to stand up to assholes. This is a perfect example. Nice job.

:1orglaugh that's fucked

One word...
Deportation.

I dont blame you.

I'm about to go to war with my next door neighbor over his noisy teenage kid and his fucking friends and the shit they do when his daddy is working at night. They guy is a local celebrity so the HOA kinda turns their heads about shit... but its just about to get personal when these videocams go up next week.

Next time, buy low and sell high.

I have one of those next door. The neighbors son is 18 and he always has a ton of friends over in my front lawn. They threw cigerettr butts in my yard and make noise late into the night. Plus the little douche shoots paintballs all over his walls and mine. Sad thing is, his father is home when he does all of this shit.

I have a nearby neighbour that parks 2 or 3 heavy trucks (often including trailers the same size as the truck) on the nature strip just about every night. I see three trucks go past my place at specific times each morning, I don't know if it's a single person doing a round or there are employees that pick them up.

Anyway, short story is, you're not allowed to park any vehicles on the nature strip. The fact that they're heavy commercial vehicles in a residential neighbourhood is probably a double hit. :2 cents: Time to go "Rochard" on them I think! :D

Does the concept of adverse possession exist where you are? Where a property (or portion of a property) is occupied for long enough without complaint from the rightful owner the occupier has the right to claim it for themselves. Perhaps he was hoping you wouldn't notice he'd extended his project onto your property... for the next decade or so... :D

Yeah low life neighbors and their crap are a pain.

Congrats on your success!

Congrats. You did a good job on that case.

Good job dude.

I fought the law, and the law won

nobody has any consideration anymore

justice is served!!! congrats!

thats bad ass, get the dogs out of the neighborhood

You paid 500K for your house and its now only worth 250k? Really sucks to be you.. Don't mean that to sound bad, I can't imagine how you feel about that. Hope it gains value for you man.

I'm surprised. I thought I'd get blasted here on GFY. I'm not done with him yet.


Yeah, it's pretty crappy but whatever. I love my house here, I love the area.

Can't be a nice guy :2 cents:

grats for a case won, i have a case pending myself, regarding renovation on my new home. been dragging for too long but its gonna get settled on Jan :) hope i can win it like ya did.

no license? trucks?

you live next to joe the plumber?

Glad the judge saw it your way. I take it there's not any zoning about him running the business from his home. Where I live there are only certain types of businesses you can run from your own home. Anything with a certain number of vehicles or even an certain volume of traffic is a no-no. Six landscape trucks would fall into that for sure.

Might even put a call into INS ;)

Course how far do you go when you have to live next to the guy.

Had someone local here with problems like that with the neighbor's teens, partying and tearing stuff up while his parents worked nights.

He talked to the father about it mano to mano... got no where "kids will be kids" and "they don't have people over when we aren't home". Then he spent a couple of nights taping some of the shyt and showed it to the parents. Kids have been totally quiet since then and no extra cars pulling up at night.

Wonder if they're even still alive ..or just locked up in the basement.

The really sucky part is he has three trailers, which he backs into his driveway every day. The corner of the house is all banged up from him backing into the house. What used to be a model house is now a dump.

Hahaha...good job!

It all depends on if your in an unicorporated part of your city. Some areas do not require a business license to operate. Just need a tax id. But yeah, he really tried to put one past ya. Good job on sweet revenge.

I'm the loud asshole neighbor where I live, but I've carefully groomed the newer tenants since I've been in our area the longest. No one moves in without warning that I constantly and consistently play loud music and have a lot of people over... A few people have moved with a lil push from me... All the neighbors we have now are great, we all hang out, get loud, but keep a nice respect level for each other. :thumbsup:thumbsup

can't blame you, i would have done the same! :thumbsup
and i would have called the IRS

The guy should have come over and talked with you about more than just pouring the concrete.. You are a reasonable guy, and you understand the tough times.. But damn.

Good job jarhead

Good to hear you won!!!!

I want to sue my hot neighbor because she goes out with all this different guys except me... do I have a case?

LOL, sounds like it.

I LOVE it when the good guys win. It's nice for a change.

congratulations!

Geez sounds like where I live

I completely understand your position and it is totally fair that you addressed the issue as things like that can lower the value of a home. Sucks that the HOA never picked up on it though. You should a write a complaint letter to them and have your fee's waived for a year. hehehe
Glad that it is all worked out in your favor my friend! :)
Btw - how the fuck are you despite the obvious?

The amount of litter on our street has tripled since he moved in, and one of the things I constantly see is his business card. Oddly enough it doesn't have a contractor's license number on it, nothing about him being bonded or anything. I'm guessing he's just running this shit out of his house under the radar.

You are fucking right, man, respect.

Congrats! :thumbsup

I see your point but america is so sue happy..

What happened to a stern voice, logical communication and the threat of violence? lol

Great news, Roc - hopefully once the rework is done you won't have to wake up to that eyesore every morning.

Normally I'd be against that kinda shit suing neighbors but if he's trying to run a fucking lawn service with that many trucks out of a residential neighborhood then he's a ass hole.

My first business was a lawn service that I started at only 16 years old and ran for 10 years. No fucking way in hell would I have tried to run 5 or 6 trucks out of a residential neighborhood. If the guy can afford the house then he can damn sure afford to rent a warehouse somewhere. It's one thing to run a home based business if it affects no one else but that kinda stuff ticks me off in nice neighborhoods.

If you have a house in a neighborhood that is quiet and all of a sudden someone moves in running a business with lots of trucks, I would be pissed too.

Glad you won in court...