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You all remember my beautiful back yard view?

SunnyD

SunnyD

Belgian Waffler
From when I built my house ~2 years ago?

This was just after closing:

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This is this afternoon:

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They're removing dirt for use as fill at some other site because "our dirt" is better, then bringing their crappier dirt back and backfilling. They're only digging right up to the exact edge of the fucking property line, but due to the nature of my big-ass house my "yard" actually extended about 5 feet past the edge of my actual line, was sodded (because the amount of sod was generic) down the hill and pretty well groomed giving me about an extra 15 feet of usable yard and, well, as you can see in the first picture a rather awesome view.

They told us a week ago that they were done just as they got to the end of our neighbor's yard. They just came back mid-morning today, and, well...

:'(

Fuck you, Monday. Fuck you.
 
I'll post some pics of my backyard soon. Then you will feel better.

If it helps - grass will grow back eventually in the area where they removed the fill.
 
Possessed Freak said:
So... you don't own the part they are digging up. Whatever.
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Nope, I had a nicely graded hill that was sodded back there though. Now I have a 15' cliff (literally a straight drop/wall) for a couple days until it gets backfilled, then it will be packed a little bit and left ungraded and exposed to runoff and erosion instead.

Whatever.
 
Well, now is as good a time as any to hide any dead bodies you needed to get rid of.
 
vi edit said:
Well, now is as good a time as any to hide any dead bodies you needed to get rid of.
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I was thinking about that... only problem is the few people that I'd need to bury are still very much alive, and a bit far away at the moment (thank his noodleyness).
 
KaOTiK said:
Looks like the beginnings of your own moat for zombie protection
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It's funny, we were just talking about this... I had just mentioned alligators.

:hmm:

If an alligator bites a zombie, does it turn into a zombie alligator? 😕
 
SpatiallyAware said:
WTF is "crappier dirt"?

Is it contaminated with something? Whatever is back there will be filled with rocks anyway
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I'm pretty sure that the crappier the dirt is the better it grows things. They must be putting it in a neighborhood with an HOA. They don't want things to grow.
 
SunnyD said:
Nope, I had a nicely graded hill that was sodded back there though. Now I have a 15' cliff (literally a straight drop/wall) for a couple days until it gets backfilled, then it will be packed a little bit and left ungraded and exposed to runoff and erosion instead.
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But it is still not your property, right?

Who owns it?

MotionMan
 
MotionMan said:
I assume SunnyD would be the best person to answer this question.

I could have made an assumptions based on a near-complete lack of information, too. But that is not what I was looking for. 😉

MotionMan
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We both live in the same town. I've been to his subdivision. 😛

I'm real good at stalking. :ninja:
 
This is one of the places where people bitch about what others do with their own property. Maybe they will install a sewer.
 
Aikouka said:
We both live in the same town. I've been to his subdivision. 😛

I'm real good at stalking. :ninja:
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Well, I hope the erosion doesn't cause a problem for the OPs property. I know what its like to have unscrupulous developers move in next door and start "working" on things, environmental protections (and permits) be damned. The OP should document what he's doing now just in case it causes problems on his side of the line later on.
 
pcgeek11 said:
This is one of the places where people bitch about what others do with their own property. Maybe they will install a sewer.
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No, it's one where people who don't understand why other people doing something to their own property can affect you and confuse being upset the view changed with it shouldn't have happened.

😀
 
Could be worse, my yard is all dirt right now because I got the weeping tiles redone. I planted grass seeds and now it decided to start raining non stop and will continue for weeks to come. My yard is going to be a big pool of nastyness and the $500 worth of dirt I added will have eroded completely and I'll have to get another dump truck load and redo it all. Stupid rain. We needed it, but this is a BAD timing.
 
MotionMan said:
But it is still not your property, right?

Who owns it?

MotionMan
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That was answered in not only the original post but also the first reply (Possessed Freak's question).

The property is owned by a LLC which previously owned a good portion of the property our subdivision is on.

As MovingTarget said a couple posts above - I'm more concerned about the erosion as I won't have ANY buffer to my property anymore, since they will more than likely grade it right to my property line rather than the 5' or so past my property line that it previously was.

And as I said, while no, it was not legally my property, I did just lose about 5' of usable level lot on what it otherwise a really small yard in the first place, that as I said will more than likely not be replaced.

Odds are 5 or 10 years from now there will be a house back there anyway, so it won't matter. But in the meantime, it was "my" yard. I'm allowed to be pissed.

The biggest annoyance about the whole thing is if you look in the background you'll see a big hill. That hill is all the extra "fill" from leveling off all the lots in the subdivision. My question is, why aren't they taking THAT shit rather than the fill right off the back of all of our lots?


Edit: Forgot to put this up... they decided to use my yard (yes, my actual property) to set the bucket for the night.

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The only way to be certain your view from your backyard isn't going to be spoiled is to own the view. 🙂 I can do whatever I want to my view.
 
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