Shared driveways

My neighbor & I don't get along. When I first moved in I would bring her trash container back from the curb cuz she's on disability cuz of her back. Her SIL would come shovel OUR snow till she got mad at me. Yet she expected me to help her when she locked herself out one evening.
 
MarciKS said:
My neighbor & I don't get along. When I first moved in I would bring her trash container back from the curb cuz she's on disability cuz of her back. Her SIL would come shovel OUR snow till she got mad at me. Yet she expected me to help her when she locked herself out one evening.
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Sorry to hear that Marci.
 
yes we did 5years ago --a big drive but it went narrow to each garage 'as we moved our stuff off the van
out come the street planner hahaha nxt door -if we keep and make it possible to get in 'it all will work '

it went ok for a while ' then when my family come- out she would pop from her little weather house
and ask if we would move one or another cars , but we became ok neighbors in the end soon as saw she could not
try her bossy ways with me .LOL
 
I don't know what it is with people and land. My neighbor mowed just a little too much on my side of the line- probably about 6 inches. Immediately, I was plotting an invasion to take it back. I was terribly offended. In truth, there really wasn't any way to tell EXACTLY which square inch was mine, and what was his. It's where you 'think' the line is. While I don't believe my neighbor did anything malicious. I can honestly understand how easily a turf disagreement could become a shooting war.
 
Our old house had a shared strip of grass between the two driveways. It was bigger than this picture but still not huge. When we moved in, our neighbor said we would alternate who mowed the entire strip which was ok with us. For some reason, he never did. We did mow it all but he always left our side unmowed. We did not make a big deal of it. He was an OK neighbor otherwise and we got along.
 
Reminds me of a grumpy old man in our neighbourhood who cut down his neighbours trees that were hanging over his side of the fence and threw a huge pile of the cuttings back onto his land.
 
People are fickle and generally awful. The picture of the partially mown patch of grass is not surprising. I ignore that crap because it's not that unusual and I would be an idiot to make an issue of it. Apparently the two dopes living next to each other have an ongoing feud.
 
mellowyellow said:
Reminds me of a grumpy old man in our neighbourhood who cut down his neighbours trees that were hanging over his side of the fence and threw a huge pile of the cuttings back onto his land.
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I don't know about the laws of the USA but in the UK if we cut down branches of trees or hedgings which belong to the neighbour we have to return them, that's either throwing them back over the fence or handing them back...of course many neighbours have an agreement if one needs to cut something on the neighbours land encroaching on your land, you can just get rid of the cutting yourself, but the actual law states that they should be returned and the neighbour could sue if they're not
 
We grow blueberry bushes next to the chain link fence between our and our neighbors’ backyard. Sometimes ‘suckers’ (new shoots from existing vegetation) will sprout on the neighbors side of the fence and will encroach in our bushes. My son always asks permission to go in their backyard to cut out the offending interloper and they graciously let him. It probably helps he takes them fresh blueberries in June. 😆. But I’m just saying a little mutual respect goes a long way
 
hollydolly said:
I don't know about the laws of the USA but in the UK if we cut down branches of trees or hedgings which belong to the neighbour we have to return them, that's either throwing them back over the fence or handing them back...of course many neighbours have an agreement if one needs to cut something on the neighbours land encroaching on your land, you can just get rid of the cutting yourself, but the actual law states that they should be returned and the neighbour could sue if they're not
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As a "general statement of law", leaving out different possible state/local laws, if branches, etc. of your neighbors, are hanging over your fence, you have a right to trim them in a reasonable manner. The law of "Air Rights" applies. Anything hanging over your side is violating your "Air Space". Here is a case law citation from my law dictionary and a partial quote from the dictionary:

"A tree that has branches extending over a neighbor's property may therefore interfere with the neighbors air rights."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/328/256
 

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