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How would you handle this?
We've lived here 17 yrs, rather a "newbie" in the neighborhood. Rest of neighbors pretty much lived in the area since the homes were built 30 yrs ago. This concerns lot boundaries. The neighbors on both sides of me would mow close to the center between the houses. My house is just 44 ft wide with garage in front. on a 88 ft wide lot. All lots are 88 ft wide. The one neighbors house is 36 ft wide with a 21 ft side attached garage. Other neighbor is 33 ft wide with a 21 ft side attached garage. Both neighbors like to mow super short which burns out their yards but they don't have to mow but once a week or bi-weekly this way. I like keeping my grass tall and mow twice a week. I finally had a survey done, of course the boundary lines are not the center between the houses. I have more side yard because my house takes up less space. Both neighbors seen the survey stakes and iron pipe. The one started mowing where his property leaves off instead of mowing part of my yard. The other neighbor continues to mow down the center. I wouldn't care but as I said he mows so cotton picken short he burns out my grass. I approached him and tried to make light of the subject by telling him "just keep coming over so I don't have to mow any side yard". After a couple times of him just continuing going down the center, I pointed out I had the property surveyed and would appreciate if he was going to mow my yard, please raise his mower when he comes onto my property. Now, this guy is one of the originals in the neighborhood. Kinda getting up there in age, set in his ways etc. Don't know if he feels he has seniority for living in the neighborhood or what the problem is. He mows about 10-12 ft over onto my property. The whole neighborhood pretty much takes care of their places, except for the ones that mow so short dirt starts flying. Oh, my neighborhood you can't put a fence up out front or side, just rear property fencing, which is from rear of house back. I sit with a 40 ft frontage, 26 ft wide on a 190' depth. I really don't want to fence the back yard. I got the survey to ease my mind, I've asked nicely, now where do I go from here? |