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Hoopz:
That would have made a kick ass fort to play in when we were kids.

Let's be honest... it'd make a kick ass fort to play in now that I'm an adult too.

Vigo:
New update on the neighbor painting situation. This morning I found a note on my car from the neighbors saying that the painters will be back and they will be painting by hand and they want me to move my car for the day. The letter was polite as well, but given my history with my neighbor, I am having a hard time agreeing to even this. On the other hand, if I let them use my driveway, we will just be done with this whole situation. My wife is sick of watching our property like a hawk. We got better things than fight with our neighbors even more.

Here is the short list of why I don't feel up to clearing my driveway.


* When we first moved in to our house, the neighbors asked to use our driveway for yard work. We agreed, and they chopped down our fence on us. The only reason we didn't call the cops is we were new and didn't want want to burn bridges.
* Nobody has enough courtesy to tell me about these things more than the day of.
* The painter was a real ---tallywhacker--- to my wife. If I was there, I would have been tempted to take a swing at the guy. I'll leave it at that.
* In the last year, the neighbor has also had roofers in and a carpenter redoing their porch. On both occasions they made home of our driveway as well.
* Our roses got pretty badly damaged on Monday.
* Our city has a property lookup that is public to view. We searched our property yesterday, and found the neighbors posted this bogus complaint on our house:
"The house is in shambles and they don't take care of it. Their exterior paint is peeling, their retaining wall is crumbling and the front of the house isn't even usable and the roof is falling apart. When is someone going to do something about this house?"

The last time the neighbor's made a complaint against our property, they said that we were housing illegal immigrants in our attic. Out of reaction to the complaint, the city took away our Homestead property tax exemption, which meant our property tax went up by like $2000 among other issues.

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 18, 2011, 04:28:18 pm ---That would have made a kick ass fort to play in when we were kids.

Let's be honest... it'd make a kick ass fort to play in now that I'm an adult too.

--- End quote ---

No kidding.  If I win the lottery, I'm buying it and turning it into my own personal nuke-proof arcade.   >:D

Vigo:

--- Quote from: HaRuMaN on October 19, 2011, 10:45:03 am ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 18, 2011, 04:28:18 pm ---That would have made a kick ass fort to play in when we were kids.

Let's be honest... it'd make a kick ass fort to play in now that I'm an adult too.

--- End quote ---

No kidding.  If I win the lottery, I'm buying it and turning it into my own personal nuke-proof arcade.   >:D

--- End quote ---

It's also a good platform to use the phrase - "I'll be in my bunker."  ;D

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Vigo on October 19, 2011, 10:38:12 am ---The last time the neighbor's made a complaint against our property, they said that we were housing illegal immigrants in our attic. Out of reaction to the complaint, the city took away our Homestead property tax exemption, which meant our property tax went up by like $2000 among other issues.

--- End quote ---


Was that a valid complaint?  If it wasn't you can sue them for harrassment and damages.  There may be city and/or state laws they violated as well that are worth speaking to your city clerk about.

Given this new information... and assuming those complaints are bogus... don't allow them to use your driveway for anything.  Ever.  No more.  Don't ever do a single thing for them for any reason. 

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