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Old 05-21-2008   #21 (permalink)
WifeOfBath
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Originally Posted by lucky8 View Post
so what's she going to do if you move away and don't remove the plants?
Don't know, don't care. I think that's part of the issue-- she'd rather not take it up with the buyers of our house because she'll have to deal with any repercussions from that and live next to them for the next few years or so. At any time she can get out there with a shovel and do what she wants with her side-- though half of the plants straddle both her side and our side and have been so long before she purchased her home. She's also disputing where the property line actually is and I think she's slightly off. All in all, this is not something I should be dealing with less than 2 weeks before we move out. The house may still technically belong to me, but it's really not my house to do as I wish with anymore.

These sorts of disputes are far from rare. Years ago, my mother had erected a fence in her yard, and after a good 10 years, her neighbors decided it was 6 or 7 inches on their property, forcing my mother to remove the fence entirely. It was probably that the fencing contractor measured wrong or something. I never quite understood fighting over inches like that. Another thing neigbors love to fight about are trees. God forbid you have a tree that grows over a neighbor's yard and you don't trim it exactly to the property line. I can see if a tree is causing actual danger, but mature trees add value to a neighborhood.

At any rate, 9 days to go and we're outta here.