I may post this over on alt.home.repair, but I'm hoping the collective
wisdom will chime in over here instead!

We need to resurface our driveway. It directly abuts the neighbor's
driveway. Both driveways slope toward our foundation. As I'm sure
you can imagine, the water infiltration is substantial, and I'm sick
of it. Furthermore, the neighbors don't have a gutter on their roof,
so all the rainwater from THEIR roof runs right off onto both
driveways and into our foundation.

They are being dickheads, plain and simple, in two ways: they refuse
to participate in this project (they say they'll do their half next
year, and this is after we have already put off doing this project
from last fall when they pled poverty back then), and they are asking
us to make sure our new driveway doesn't direct water toward their
house, which I find to be richly ironic given their absent gutter lo
these recent years.

My question is how best to handle this. I feel that I have no
obligation to spend extra time or money addressing the runoff issue
beyond what I need to achieve avoiding water entering my house. Am I
missing something here? I am planning to tell them that if they're so
concerned about rainwater runoff, they should install a gutter on
their house and control at least that part of it if they insist on not
cooperating with us.

All thoughts welcome; I will be checking this group for responses.
Thanks!