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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“’The police took away his drill.”
There's actually a legal reason to be picky about property lines and people who extend structures or whatever, over those lines.
If you do not object, you can lose that land. It's a variation of Squatters Rights.
I've seen cases that I totally disagree with. Most judges just don't know what to do and few attorneys have real experience in survey boundaries.
My advice is always...in these miniscule problems...is to enter an agreement so it does NOT turn into an Adverse Possession Case......common practice in our area.
Sign an agreement and give the 87 year old $1000 and be done with it.
You are exactly right. A guy built a MONSTROUS house on an empty lot in our neighborhood a few years ago. Next door is a gorgeous, well landscaped modest house on one acre plot. The owner of the next door house was away for a few months and the jerk who built the big house had driveway concrete forms put down over TEN FEET of his neighbor’s property. Luckily, another neighbor alerted the woman about the impending concrete pour and she got it stopped.
The bastard was going to just blatantly steal her land.
yup
I have some relatives in their late 80s.
They can be coherent one day and totally wacko the next.
I was involved in the resolution of a 4” property line dispute involving a buried drainage line. The title insurance company likely spent over $10K to fix that one.
I’m 78....and I’ve been coherent one day and totally wacko the next for a few years now...as soon as I figured out how to pull it off to my benefit. LOL
Title insurance companies rarely pay...fault usually falls on the survey company.
That's the saddest part of the story. While growing up, my parents had a feud with a neighbor over a parking space. In that neighborhood there were no garages so we all parked on the street. This guy claimed two spots in front of his house and only used one. Anytime a guest of ours would slide into the unused spot, he'd barrel out of the house screaming obscenities and threatening to call the police.
As he was retired, he would mostly sit on his back deck all day and glower at us if we were out in the yard. My mother told me to never go out there if he was sitting there because she was afraid he'd take a potshot at me or something. Which thus made it uncomfortable for me to be in the yard at any time as you never knew when he'd come out. Years after I moved out, I would still park way down the block when I visited so as not to encroach on the old man's parking space!
Many jusrisdictions have “setback rules” to avoid this issue. You can build a fence, but it has to be 12” on your side of the property line. You don’t lose ownership of the 12”, but you can’t absorb the neighbor’s property, either.
IS it or isn’t it on his property.
Inch/Mile comes to mind.
You can’t put your fence on your neighbors property.
If the old codger is correct, MOVE THE FENCE!
He couldn’t damage the neighbors fence if it is on his property, it’s HIS fence.
But whose property is the fence really on?
Did he drill holes, or poke holes?
What do drilled holes accomplish?
So make it right you friggen idiot. Dont bitch and moan about the neighbor you did wrong bitching and moaning about YOU!
Our little town just made a guy tear down a 70,000 building because of stupid crap like this. You either work it out or here comes the bulldozer.
Towns don’t know what the hell to do with these problems. We have a ridiculous situation going on. The lady complains because neighbor has rocks along the boundary...on him..so she doesn’t drive over his lawn area in the right of way. The Town says he can leave the rocks. I told my friend....tell her to stop driving on his lawn...aka...learn to drive. The lady needs a hobby.
Sounds like has has one?.
Alternatively, the offending neighbor should be convinced to buy the 2” x 100’ for fair market value and end the controversy.
Most towns have a Zoning Board or better still, a Zoning Board of Appeals to deal with these things.
Zoning has nothing to do with this particular issue.
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