You don’t understand, these people did about everything the codes restrict you could imagine, and it was up to us to complain to get them to stop, the county didn’t do a darn thing on their own.
There is a creek running through both of our properties, that guy one day just put down big pipes and buried it the entire width of his from line to line. Illegal as hell, we complained to the state and everyone else and what it all boiled down to was nobody did anything, we would have had to sue him personally and screwing with a waterway in Michigan was suppose to be some mega no-no.
This is why my driveway is 8/10 of a mile long, and the only neighbor I can see is my mom on the other side of the lake. Some people can luck out and get the best neighbors in the world, or they can crap-out like we did and get gun shy because of it.
No I understood, just saying that hereabouts nowadays it’s quite different, you cannot build anything larger than a 10’ x 10’ shed without a permit.
I know what a *huge* difference good neighbors can make. When I was selling my house with the attached garage, the abutter on my left just about never mowed his lawn, his paint was peeling and his house was generally in disrepair. I mowed the area the lawn near my house (we had a large hedge separating us) to make my place saleable. After he moved/was forclosed, the new owners tore down his house to the bare frame and rebuilt it very nicely.
For the most part, I’ve had wonderful neighbors, though.