On Friday, August 9, 2013 8:54:44 PM UTC-4, Tony Hwang wrote:
PV wrote:

TomR wrote:

leza wang wrote:

Hi

I just would love to hear your opinion about this. There is a fence

between our house and neighbor. None of us build the fence. We bought

the houses and the fence was/is there. The neighbor are now doing

waterproof the basement. So they are digging the area close to fence.

They asked me if I will allow them to move the dirt to my place (just

easier than moving to the front of their house). I said no (I do not

want to get all the mess, they are hiring unprofessional workers and

this has been going for 4 weeks. These workers do not have even the

right tools to do the job). Anyway, yesterday we were away when we

came back we saw the fence boards are removed except the frame and

the dirt moved to our backyard! (see pictures below please).



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Hi Leza,



Welcome back.



Frankly, I don't think you have any real problem here. It looks like

they are just digging down next to their house to probably parge

and/or replace their basement wall on that side, and maybe do some

other things there to try to waterproof their basement. They

probably had to do the digging by hand (meaning shovels) because

there is so little room there. And, they are right that it would

have been much more difficult to try to move the dirt out front as

they dig. And, it looks like when they are done, they are going to

have to put the dirt back in the hole anyway. So, why make them dig

the dirt, move it out front, then move it back again to put it back

in the whole. And, as someone else wrote, it doesn't appear that you

had any real landscaping going on there anyway.

If it were me in your situation, I would have just let them do what

they are doing and put the dirt on my property, and then move the

dirt back off of my property afterward when they re-fill the hole. And,

I'm sure their plan is to put the fence back together.



They probably covered the dirt with the blue tarp so if it rains the

dirt doesn't wash all over the place and maybe even back into the

hole that they are digging.



My vote is to just let them do what they and leave them alone about

it.

Good luck.



A voice of reason among the cries of the lynch mob, good response and Leza

should listen.



Hmmm,

I concur for the sake of good will between neighbors.

If you start a war between neighbors no one wins.

The war has already been started and it was clearly started
by the neighbor. Maybe you will let people walk all over you
and treat you like some bitch, but it's not my way.