What would you think of your neighbor if he did this? With MSpaint custom Picture!

[ArJuN]

So you have a garden that someone else pays for and maintains? Sounds like a win to me.

 

[olds]

I don't know what the OP is referring to as a "retention pond". Likely a place to contain runoff. But if it was a pond I would be using/fishing in, I would say this:
"While I can appreciate the fact that you would be maintaining that piece of land, it will restrict my view and access to the pond/lake. So I'd rather you put in in line with your property."

If it's just a settling pond, I'd fence my yard and hope the mosquitoes don't get too bad.

If he's a dick, I would take food from his garden or kill it.

 

[KaOTiK]

pay the lawn guy $5 to mow down his garden

 

[Anubis]

umm ignore it? or put up a fence

 

[waggy]

a garden is crapping it up? ..

 

[leeland]

OK OK a garden isn't crapping it up...probably a poor choice of words.

At this exact moment the yard is just tall grass and is at some point going to be pushed around and a lawn is going to be put in.

At that point in time I am going to have the appearance of a garden in my back yard which currently starts at the lot line and is 20 feet in on my side and about 5 feet from the back of my lot line so from a window when you look out it looks like I have a garden in my back yard.

Is this the worst thing in the world? Absolutely not but the last thing I want to look at is not the garden but a sweaty 65 year old man in a wife beater working in it every night.

Again it isn't something that is going to make me postal and I am not hating the guy.

I get obvious points that you are making that it is a free portion to do as people see fit and there are no restrictions that I am aware of.

I am going to at some point at the end of the summer kindly ask him to move it to his side as I want to maintain that portion of the out lot.

I hadn't really thought the entire thing through as it happened this afternoon and I am finally sitting down to relax and ponder.

 

[leeland]

I don't know what the OP is referring to as a "retention pond". Likely a place to contain runoff. But if it was a pond I would be using/fishing in, I would say this:
"While I can appreciate the fact that you would be maintaining that piece of land, it will restrict my view and access to the pond/lake. So I'd rather you put in in line with your property."

If it's just a settling pond, I'd fence my yard and hope the mosquitoes don't get too bad.

If he's a dick, I would take food from his garden or kill it.

It is just a retention pond that is at the deepest point 6 feet deep. Not for fishing but contains wildlife and is nice to look at from our living room.

For reference if it was in his back yard I wouldn't see it at all...due to the shape of the land back their.

 

[Leros]

That would piss me off. So basically, he's preserving his view by planting is garden in front of your view.

 

[leeland]

That would piss me off. So basically, he's preserving his view by planting is garden in front of your view.

In a nutshell this is my opinion.

 

[thescreensavers]

^ Yep

Only two things left to do

1. Nuke it from Orbit
2. Buy the Land tear his shit down

 

[SandEagle]

Sounds like much ado about nothing. Plus, the information your first paragraph is irrelevant.

established subdivision + neighbors dumping crap = does not compute

 

[El Guaraguao]

STOP WHINING!

/Arnold

 

[CrazyAznDriver]

pay the lawn guy $5 to mow down his garden

this give him some extra money to 'accidentally' mow a little extra. Stupid lawn guys get carried away :whiste:

 

[ProfJohn]

I see two choices:

1. Ask him nicely to move the garden and hope he complies, if he doesn't then either deal with it or skip to step 2.

2. The land has to be owned by someone. If it is easement then there would be rules about what you can and can't do on it. A few phone calls will probably solve the problem. But then you might make an enemy etc etc.

I'd start by looking up the rules that govern the land behind your house. You might even be able to put a fence up right to the water line at which point his garden becomes within your fence.

BTW if there is an an HOA then just call them and they should solve it fast. In our HOA easements are public areas and you can't do anything on them at all.

Unless the guy is a total ass he will probably comply with your request rather then get in a long drawn out fight that he should lose in the long run.

 

[Tim_Derr]

This what I would do If your neighbor is a dick.\
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[drebo]

Plant rosemary on his "side" of the unowned land. Spreads like crazy and never goes away.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

If its public can you bury your dead cat there?

 

[Newbian]

Plant rosemary on his "side" of the unowned land. Spreads like crazy and never goes away.

The problem with that is it would spread to your property.

Like people have said, check with your city laws about this as many won't even let you mow these places, especially if they are near water sources.

If they don't let you do anything to that type of property then you can get the city to take care of what he is doing and he will face fines or loose the city job.

If the city doesn't care what you do with it then tell the guy to move it over and claim it as your own if it bothers you this much as it's more your property then his.

 

[Savij]

Leave your garden hose running at the bottom over your backyard overnight just after he is done planting. I'm sure he'll get the picture after a couple of re-plantings.

 

[leeland]

I see two choices:

1. Ask him nicely to move the garden and hope he complies, if he doesn't then either deal with it or skip to step 2.

2. The land has to be owned by someone. If it is easement then there would be rules about what you can and can't do on it. A few phone calls will probably solve the problem. But then you might make an enemy etc etc.

I'd start by looking up the rules that govern the land behind your house. You might even be able to put a fence up right to the water line at which point his garden becomes within your fence.

BTW if there is an an HOA then just call them and they should solve it fast. In our HOA easements are public areas and you can't do anything on them at all.

Unless the guy is a total ass he will probably comply with your request rather then get in a long drawn out fight that he should lose in the long run.

I am pretty sure with the covenants we can't build a fence and even if we did it wouldn't go through his garden since it is on an out lot and not our property, plus it would block the view of the nice part of the lot ( the established out lot with wild life).

The guy is smart obviously since he is working around the rules and knows the people who schedule things like mowing the out lots.

For example, we got a bill for 35 bucks to 'maintain' all the out lots (mowing), but every home that I see mows up to the retention ponds so the mower guy isn't going to mow them really...he is mowing a couple of ditches and that is it...which totals about 3,000 dollars (seemed a bit high to me).

The end game after I sit here and type this is at the end of the year ask him nicely to move it to his side of the lot and see what he says...he if pushes back I can obviously escalate it and complain but I don't want to do that...but I will.

I will live with it for this year and see what happens at the end of summer.

He seems like a stubborn kind of guy set in his ways so it will be interesting.

 

[ShawnD1]

In a nutshell this is my opinion.

If it really bothers you that much, dissolve a bunch of salt in a gallon of water then pour it on his garden at night. It will die off and you won't need to deal with it.


If it doesn't bother you enough to be worth killing the entire thing with salt (or chlorine bleach) then just ignore it.

 

[M0RPH]

Even if it isn't technically your property, sounds like your other neighbors are treating it as part of their yard. It makes no sense that he would put it on your side and not his own, unless he's treating the out lot behind his own property as an extension of his yard and doesn't want a garden there. For that same reason he should realize you don't want a garden on your side either.

Basically your neighbor is being an inconsiderate a-hole. I'm not sure how to handle the guy but it does seem you're gonna have to get tough with him at some point and just let him know that his garden needs to go on his own damn side.

 

[mugs]

If it looks like ass, a gallon of Round Up is only $15 at the Home Depot. If it doesn't look like ass, who cares? In either case, you need to plant some marijuana in the "out lot" behind his property.

 

[OutHouse]

Put your garden on "his side" of the unused area :^D

:^)

humm i wonder why he didnt plant behind his house? maybe they want the view of the pond? well i like the idea of you planting your garden behind his house with corn.

 

[the DRIZZLE]

Have you actually checked your property survey to confirm what he's telling you is true? Make sure you actually measure and see if the garden is really on your property or not.

By the way, this guy is completely establishing his stance of dominance on you. He just expanded his territory by claiming the area behind your house and telling you that you can't do anything about it. Within a month he'll be taking a pass at your wife. I recommend you mark the garden as your territory by taking a nice dump in it. I'm sure he'll get the message.