Posted on 06/16/2022 3:41:08 AM PDT by dennisw
Pensioner, 87, drilled holes through his neighbour's garden wall claiming it jutted onto his land by 'TWO INCHES' and put up signs warning, 'You and your cowboy builders are thieves' Ewen Taylor, of Cardiff, launched his campaign after neighbours built extension
The 87-year-old claims the new wall encroaches onto his property by two inches After being fined by police, he began putting up accusatory signs in his garden Family, who deny it encroaches on his land, say his actions have been distressing
A pensioner drilled holes in his neighbour's garden wall claiming it encroaches on his land by two inches and erected placards accusing the family of being thieves.
Ewen Taylor was slapped with a £90 fine for the criminal damage but has continued his protest by displaying signs outside his home accusing his neighbours of 'illegal building work'.
The family, who built the extension to create more dining space, say the row has left their children 'embarrassed to go out'.
For a number of months Mr Taylor, from Cardiff, has been putting wooden placards at the front of his house in the Grangetown area.
The 87-year-old's messages include: 'You and your cowboy builder are thiefs [sic]'; 'Other councils take down illegle [sic] building work'; 'Will they sue me?'; and 'Do not like my signs, tell the council'.
The display shows the street number of the next-door family, who said: 'It needs to stop really.'
Mr Taylor, a retired bricklayer who has lived in his house for around 50 years, said his anger was sparked in 2020 when the family built an extension in their back garden.
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Don’t piss off grumpy old men. They will find six ways from Sunday to make your life miserable.
Obviously 2 inches is a lot to this Dickensonian old codger. Give it back to him or else be covered with perpetuall geriatric treacle.
The 87-year-old guy obviously needs a new hobby.
I do not like the way the British use the word cowboy.
He’s at the stage of dementia Creeper Joe is at. Soon they will both start swinging. I actually look forward to old Joe get pissed at Dr. Jill as she wrangles him off a stage and start swinging.
People can make agreements.
I've seen 1" x 200 ft. strip cut off a driveway.
Nice to read an 87 year old man is remaining active...
He is perseverating. He will not let go of it no matter what.
This can’t end well.
2” today, and sometime in the future they will break that wall down and put up a new one, 2 more inches into the property line.
And if they are allowed to do it, the law will recognize that no one complained, so it is now theirs.
I have seen the exact same situation played out in Texas and in Bosnia. A group will mistakenly put up the line an inch or two over the line, then claim it was theirs since the owner did not object. After a while that can add up to many square feet of land changing hands, especially if the groups stay around the property for a long time.
One of the reasons why the Bible inveighs against moving the old landmarks.
OMG just imagine an old fart with a newly found survey stake, a measuring tape and a rudimentary knowledge of surveying.
Sometimes, we retirees have way too much time on our hands.
A lot of Deja Vu in your posted thread.
If it’s true, he’s 100% correct to complain. It’s a property rights issue, one of our most basic God-given rights. The man knows the okd addage, give someone an inch and they’ll take a mile.
https://iment.com/maida/family/father/jackbell/Jack-Bell-Prospector-and-Naturalist-38.htm#fraction
Fraction Jack, Who Profits by the Mistakes of Others
Nevada State Journal, November 4, 1923
Old-Timers Watch Him
When Fraction Jack appears in a new camp, you will see every old-timer measuring off his ground and getting his stakes on the boundaries. He will also discover that the prospector is running his ground just a few feet shy of the allotment permitted by law, then he knows that he is safe from the wonderful - yes, unusual, insight that Stewart has for running boundaries. Now he does all this from a location monument.
Say a man claims 750 feet north and south from this monument and, of course, 300 feet on each side of the vein, or whatever it may be in our terms of description of ground. Stewart runs off that end line with his eyes, also the side lines - makes a mental calculation and, in every case, it will be found that he is right off the other man’s ground and on a small vacant piece of estate, that separates this location from the one that has been claimed by the man who located and claimed on the extension.
Me I would seek to have the property lines redrawn and allow the neighbor the 2 inches if they agree to pay for it. That would seem a reasonable proposal and less disruptive.
Yep. Its called adverse possession I think. AR law is pretty land owner friendly as the person has to pay the other persons taxes for 7 years in order to legally obtain land in that manner.
Where part if my family tree migrated from the sod houses down to Wyoming and Montana, they use “cowboy” as a derogatory slam. Because they refer to that trade as stockmen or cattlemen, ‘course “cowboys” will call them brokebacks in return... I stay out if it, by choice, they call me seadawg. For some reason they think I was in the Navy...
Have you ever lived next to a neighbor who has taken 2 inches of your land down the entire property line? They tend to smirk and ask what is the big deal? If the position were reversed the smirking neighbor would cry a different tune.
Let’s say this is true. Can the old codger take off 2 inches of the wall. Smirking neighbor wouldn’t be too happy, and neither would the court system. If I were the judge in this case, and it were proved to be true, then an order for certain amount of “rent” money (adjusted for inflation) would be paid annually by the encroaching neighbor until the year after the wall comes down. And if the neighbor does not pay it, the old codger may put a lien on the neighbor’s property, and encroacher is responsible for the old codger’s legal fees should it be necessary to enforce his rights. Bet Mr Smirking-What’s-The-Big-Deal?-Neighbor won’t be so happy, and old codger, well ...
(PS - I was President of an HOA for many years. I can tell you stories about feuding neighbors, etc. Hard to believe adults act in this manner - disrespecting others’ property is very common. HOA had a restriction that approved fences had to be set back one foot from the property line ... to avoid situations like this one. I No longer live in an HOA neighborhood.)
I am with the old guy on this. Betting the neighbors have never even acknowledged the infringement.
“He’s right...The wall is on his property....The court should order it removed.” If it is on his property it should be taken down or he be compensated for it appropriately.
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