[rlmorel]

These things are always weird. My brother bought my grandparents house, where they had lived since 1938. There was a small flower garden on the side of the house and then the neighbor’s driveway. My grandmother had grown rosebushes and other flowering plants there since I could remember.

One day, after some new neighbors moved in a couple of years ago, the new guy knocks on my brother’s door and says “I was looking at the property lines, and your flower garden is on our property. We are going to pave it over.” My brother said my grandparents had used it since the thirties, but the guy said “Sorry. We own it and we will take it to court if we have to.” Nice introduction to the new neighbors.

My brother got a layout of the plot, and...oopsie! It was set up in such an odd way that the flower garden was indeed on their property, but...THEIR ENTIRE DRIVEWAY WAS ON MY BROTHER’S PROPERTY!

LOL...how wonderful is THAT? Being the nice guy my brother is, he pointed that out, and said “You can keep the driveway if we can keep the rose garden...”

Nothing more was ever spoken about it!

[george76]

Nice new neighbor.

/s

Good that your brother stood up to the fool.

[metmom]

Love it.

My sister had a similar issue with a neighbor about a fence that was put up in the wrong spot. When she got the house after my mom died, she moved the fence and the neighbor was furious. (the fences were back to back, way back where nobody ever went). He threatened her until she told him that if he did anything, she would make him do something about his garage roof which over hung her property by six inches.

Never heard another word from him since then.

[Doogle]

.....more than a few years ago, I worked with a guy who had land in PA. He would visit it ever so often with plans to eventually build.
One day he went for a ride and low and behold, a developer build a brand new home on HIS property, HIS lot, cleared all the trees, and there sat a new 3 bedroom,two car garage,1 bath (back then)...after the dust settle he got his home, huge huge discount on a better piece of property from the same developer. He just got his home a few years earlier then planned

[Mmmike]

Ah, another day in the great paradise that is modern propositional, atheistic, legalistic society ... Not!