HAHAHAHA omg, you just...omg, what is this, I don't even...lulz you told him to build a bridge.....rofl.
HAHAHAHA omg, you just...omg, what is this, I don't even...lulz you told him to build a bridge.....rofl.
SagaLore
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Not sure where you are going with this or if you missed it.
The back yard has a nice 1-2 acre retention pond that 'has a view'...
It is visible from the living room and over looks nothing but a farm field and some trees behind that...
Once the yard is landscaped it would just be the view of the retention pond...however since there is a garden in our out lot we wouldn't be able to landscape that as it would it would destroy it.
I plan on getting information about the out lots regarding what is allowed and what isn't allowed.
if it is allowed to landscape them to ensure proper run off from our yard to the out lot then that is my ticket...because I will nicely inform him of our intentions with the landscaping of the back yard and the out lot and try to give him as much notice as possible about moving his garden to his own out lot.
surfsatwerk
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Granted my suggestion may require the OP to take some engineering courses, maybe even get some experience with a crane and bulldozer, but in the long run it'll pay off.
first step, talk with him.
if he refuses to budge, plant some mile-a-minute weeds in the common area and only curtail their growth within your property line.
if he refuses to budge, plant some mile-a-minute weeds in the common area and only curtail their growth within your property line.
Just got my hands on the official covenants regarding the out lots...and I have what appears an open and shut case...
#1. We are allowed to landscape the land by the out lot to ensure that there is proper drainage to the out lot. Currently our out lot has a burm on the top of the edge which creates a bowl effect in our backyard collecting water...our initial plan was to shave the edge of the out lot down so it slopped to the out lot from our backyard.
#2. It states there is NO agricultural cultivation on the out lots which is probably why no one else did it...
His wife is the treasure of the 'out lot' committee so I have to bring a check to her anyways very soon.
I will talk to the guy and let him know our intentions for the out lot once we get the yard going and the reshaping of the land back their...hopefully giving him enough of an advanced warning to do what ever he needs to move it prior to the work being done.
IF he is a jerk about it I will kindly show him the covenants and see what he has to say then.
Oh...and I will remember to use the </Stance of Dominance/> during this conversation.
It should be interesting and I am sure he will be pissed and not be a very helpful or friendly neighbor after this...or he could be totally cool and then secretly plot against me for the next 10 years!
A little update...
So on Sunday of this week I had a visit from the president of the association who got involved through word of mouth...and wanted to investigate...he was cool but made me go through the town board to let them know my intentions...
Then I got a letter from the 'association' that CC'd me on a letter to my neighbor about his garden and that it wasn't approved...so I basically got him in hot water unintentionally about it.
Kind of feel a little bad but not too much
End game is the garden is gone and we are pleased.
So on Sunday of this week I had a visit from the president of the association who got involved through word of mouth...and wanted to investigate...he was cool but made me go through the town board to let them know my intentions...
Then I got a letter from the 'association' that CC'd me on a letter to my neighbor about his garden and that it wasn't approved...so I basically got him in hot water unintentionally about it.
Kind of feel a little bad but not too much
End game is the garden is gone and we are pleased.
Capt Caveman
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MagnusTheBrewer
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Crawl back into your plastic fantastic world and breathe the 'clean' filtered air of suburbia. The day a garden (and people working in it) become an eyesore is the day I know I'm just wasting space. Fricken, lame ass, HOA suckin,' pavement princess!
Gooberlx2
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No, no, no.....now the neighborhood drama will begin. :awe:
I'm just disappointed that the OP didn't get a chance to yell "DRAINAGE!!!!!"
A little update...
So on Sunday of this week I had a visit from the president of the association who got involved through word of mouth...and wanted to investigate...he was cool but made me go through the town board to let them know my intentions...
Then I got a letter from the 'association' that CC'd me on a letter to my neighbor about his garden and that it wasn't approved...so I basically got him in hot water unintentionally about it.
Kind of feel a little bad but not too much
End game is the garden is gone and we are pleased.
Well done!
Most people responding have been homeless dandies, ignore them. The dude had a chance to be civil the first time you mentioned the garden to him. Instead, he responded with "yeah, its cool as long as NO ONE COMPLAINS."
Your neighbor is a douchebag, and good for you on getting it taken care of. It's rare for situations like this to turn out fairly, usually the connected guy gets his way.
Number1
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Nicely done. I can't believe your douchebag neighbor would have done something like this. You can probably expect more trouble from him in the future.
Miscthree
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Cool ending..
You got what you wanted with probably the least fuss possible. On one hand you probably pissed him off some, which isnt a good way to start a neighborly relationship, but on the other hand you've openly asserted the law and your rights, which would give him pause next time around(but he sounds like a dick so this might have lit a fire under his ass).
Just because he has 'pull' with higher ups in the community doesn't entitle him to shit, dump, build, or grow on property that's not his. That's bordering on corruption, no pun intended.
You got what you wanted with probably the least fuss possible. On one hand you probably pissed him off some, which isnt a good way to start a neighborly relationship, but on the other hand you've openly asserted the law and your rights, which would give him pause next time around(but he sounds like a dick so this might have lit a fire under his ass).
Just because he has 'pull' with higher ups in the community doesn't entitle him to shit, dump, build, or grow on property that's not his. That's bordering on corruption, no pun intended.
be honest, it's really your wife that is pissed about it, wants to do something with that part of the land and not you.
clearly you need to burn a giant cock into his outlot with a powerful vegetation killer. Then till in a couple hundred pounds of salt so that the vegetation will not grow back soon and he will be looking at giant dirt cock until his demise.
IBS, you do not do it with herbicide, you do it with fertilizer.
The effect is much more subtle...
I am just afraid that your neighbor will know it is you and be looking for any "violations" you may commit over the next few years. Be VERY careful if you do any home improvements (permits and tax assessments).
GL
HF
The effect is much more subtle...
I am just afraid that your neighbor will know it is you and be looking for any "violations" you may commit over the next few years. Be VERY careful if you do any home improvements (permits and tax assessments).
GL
HF
DrPizza
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And to think - if he did the garden between his house and the retention pond, he's still have it.
But it's not possible for assholes to be passive-aggressive towards themselves. Maybe it is, but they'd have to be supreme-ultra-gigga-asshole, and also ultra sensitive, to pull that off.
Why do that and ruin his view of the pond?
They neighbor tried to establish his dominance, you called him on it. As a general rule, people who pull stuff like this just get worse over time because they know you'll let it slide. You probably prevented future problems with the neighbor by taking care of the problem promptly.
twinrider1
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Did you ever just tell him in direct terms that you would like him to remove the garden?
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cardiac
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This is why I moved out from suburbia to the middle of nowhere. I have a couple of acres in the middle of soybean fields and can do what I want. Sit on my deck and have coffee in the morning, naked. Have a small pistol range out back. (Haven't done any naked target shooting yet...)
I wanted to put up a 48' aluminum tower for some of my amateur radio antennas and went to the county building department to see what permits I needed. They said "We don't care what you build and you only need a permit if it is over $25000". I love it out here....
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