So really really (really) long story short my mom finished signing the final sale documents on the lake cottage that has been in our family for 84 years. My mom and dad had planned to retire there and build a new house but issues with building variances (they got restrictive enough that you couldn't build the same sized cottage that had been there for decades anymore), my father passing away from cancer, distance from children and an asshole neighbor resulted in a change of plans.
Back to the asshole neighbor. To get around the 'Percent of property covered' ordinance my dad bought some land from a neighbor and family friend who had a double lot. The lady behind the lot had wanted a small strip of land leading out to the lake in order to get access to the private lake but had almost no money. Being another family friend my father had a verbal agreement to give her a small strip of land for free so she could put in a pier.
Sadly she unexpectedly passed away during the land transfer process. Her son finds out about the process and loses his shit. Never talked to my dad to find out what was going on - just immediately files suit to stop the transfer of land.
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When that failed he came down to talk to my father. While free was off the table my father offered to sell him the strip of land at the same $/ft he paid for everything + lawyers fees from the lawsuit. The neighbor lost his shit again, demanded the land for free and, knowing my father has cancer, threatened to beat my father up and put him back in the hospital. He also mentioned he had enough money to tie up their housing projects until my father dies so he will never see his retirement house built (But not enough money to buy his mother a strip of land to the lake I guess).
He also filed suit again. In the legal back and forth my father again offered to sell the land for the same $/ft plus the ever growing legal fee cost. The suit was again dismissed and the offer turned down.
When fuckhead found out the cottage was being sold after my father passed away the harassment stopped. I am guessing he thought he could offer to buy a small strip of land from the new owners. His wife even came down to ask if they could have the land from us before the sale was finalized. Ha! Fat fucking chance.
Yeah - karma is a bitch fuckhead. Took a little bit of work but we didn't sell all the land. I now own a small L-shaped strip of property.
Good luck getting lake access now. I'll gladly pay property taxes year after year to continue to fuck him over. Maybe I'll put in a pier or something and come out and sit on my land in my folding lawnchair and waive at him. Well he did say he had money. Maybe I'll sell it to him anyway....for an astronomical markup.
TL: DR
- Parents bought land
-Neighbor doesn't understand how property ownership works (Yeah we don't HAVE to sell you our land)
- Big man neighbor threatened to beat up a 67 year old man with pancreatic cancer
- Mom sold family cottage
- Big man got fucked over in the end
Back to the asshole neighbor. To get around the 'Percent of property covered' ordinance my dad bought some land from a neighbor and family friend who had a double lot. The lady behind the lot had wanted a small strip of land leading out to the lake in order to get access to the private lake but had almost no money. Being another family friend my father had a verbal agreement to give her a small strip of land for free so she could put in a pier.
Sadly she unexpectedly passed away during the land transfer process. Her son finds out about the process and loses his shit. Never talked to my dad to find out what was going on - just immediately files suit to stop the transfer of land.
(Not to scale)
When that failed he came down to talk to my father. While free was off the table my father offered to sell him the strip of land at the same $/ft he paid for everything + lawyers fees from the lawsuit. The neighbor lost his shit again, demanded the land for free and, knowing my father has cancer, threatened to beat my father up and put him back in the hospital. He also mentioned he had enough money to tie up their housing projects until my father dies so he will never see his retirement house built (But not enough money to buy his mother a strip of land to the lake I guess).
He also filed suit again. In the legal back and forth my father again offered to sell the land for the same $/ft plus the ever growing legal fee cost. The suit was again dismissed and the offer turned down.
When fuckhead found out the cottage was being sold after my father passed away the harassment stopped. I am guessing he thought he could offer to buy a small strip of land from the new owners. His wife even came down to ask if they could have the land from us before the sale was finalized. Ha! Fat fucking chance.
Yeah - karma is a bitch fuckhead. Took a little bit of work but we didn't sell all the land. I now own a small L-shaped strip of property.
Good luck getting lake access now. I'll gladly pay property taxes year after year to continue to fuck him over. Maybe I'll put in a pier or something and come out and sit on my land in my folding lawnchair and waive at him. Well he did say he had money. Maybe I'll sell it to him anyway....for an astronomical markup.
TL: DR
- Parents bought land
-Neighbor doesn't understand how property ownership works (Yeah we don't HAVE to sell you our land)
- Big man neighbor threatened to beat up a 67 year old man with pancreatic cancer
- Mom sold family cottage
- Big man got fucked over in the end
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