What should I do???

Iron pin survey and be done. Drive steel T post along property line close enough to see where property line runs. Common sense and courtesy are rare enough be considered super powers these days. Two things bad neighbors need to understand, stay on their own property, and stay off mine! No way would anyone buy property and not be sure of the property line here. You couldn't get a loan here to do that.  Hope it all works out well. JMHO Tracy

Red Bank wrote: Common courtesy and common sense are rare these days. I know you said he thinks the property is his but how about a heads up to you that he was going to bring a dozer in and do that. Yeah if he thinks it's his land and he doesn't have to ask then he has no courtesy. Around here we always talk to the neighbors beforehand and tell them what we are wanting to do and see what their reaction is before it blows up into something. Another thing that's rare is good neighbors.

Agreed. Just a little respect goes a long way.

Great, hope this quiets down for you too.

If you really want to make them think.... backhoe several holes about 3' wide, 6' long and 6' deep.....place them 6' apart, so backhoe can refill 'as required'......

We have a nutso neighbor "Gun Dealer" that rattles off a few clips after NINE OCLOCK at night IN THE WINTER and after dark in summer. No idea how he sees, never has lights on and fully expect to get a few strays one of these days.
Cops are ineffective.

We have a 4 acre key slot property owner in the center of our road frontage, his house is the previous farm owners home that was his inheritance. Smell some weird odors from there on occasion has a stereo blasts all night and dogs that run the surrounding farms but not maliciously. He had a scrap junk pile that encroached to my property thru a fence, I did similar with the loader getting a bucket load and transferring back to where belonged.   He still does it once in awhile I believe as he has always done that in that spot. The place is a trash hole but he tends to stay to himself, any issues and I will set the law and lawyers on him.

Edited by DMiller - 21 Sep 2018 at 5:23am

My experience tells me that everyone is destined to have one A$$HOLE neighbor. We had one move into the house next door to my parents farm after the older couple there passed away. Then after my parents passed, I brought a place further out in the country with only two houses bordering my place. Wouldn’t you know one is a citybot anal retentive @sswipe that has to vacuum his yard twice a week and thought he could pile the grass clippings over the fence onto my side. After couple of times taking the loader and putting the clippings back into their rightful place he was complaining. I explained that HIS trash doesn’t belong on my side of the fence. Then he started knawing away at the botton of the posts with a weedwacker, so I had the spray around all the posts with Roundup. Do what you gotta do to get your neighbors to respect your property. I was brought up to treat anything belonging to someone else better than your own.

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: DiyDave wrote: Build the wall, NOW!

Edited by CrestonM - 20 Sep 2018 at 11:44pm

DiyDave wrote: Build the wall, NOW!

A good friend owns the plot north of us . He called the guy today and texted him a pic of our deed. The guy says he’ll pick up all his trash and put big rocks in place to block the roads they made. The county judge called the police and all the sudden they decided they did want to come look. They told Jenn we need to put no trespassing signs all along the border and use some purple tape. Hopefully this will keep them out. We’re getting a couple game cameras soon. I appreciate all the advice. I figure if they get mad at me over their mistake then I don’t need them as friends anyway.

If you haven't already you should get lots of pictures of the damage.

The police will be no help. I know a lawyer who also owns the title company that did the closing on this property. I built his offices. I’m having Jennifer get in contact with him. I also know the culprits boss. He owns a very large excavation company and loaned this guy the equipment to do this work. I can get the equipment stopped. I don’t want this guy to lose his job. I feel like he was lied to when he bought his property. I’d be willing to call it all good if they stop now. The 4 wheelers don’t bother me because we live way off the road but my mom does not.

Thad, you need to get it stopped as soon as possible. Staying on friendly terms is one thing but don't let them use that to take advantage of you. You may need to enlist the help of some of your other neighbors to put a little pressure on the guy. Your best resource may be a good lawyer to get a stop work order and make then pay for your property that they have destroyed. Also riding atv's all hours of the night is creating a public nuisance which could get law enforcement involved. They may not was law enforcement looking at them too closely. And there is some good advice in what ole DJ posted.

just wonder HOW BIG this guy thinks 5 acres is???

Better get it stopped before they ruin all the trees.