Angry, Lonesome old man lives next door

[AprilShowers]

This guy is a piece of work! It's a long story, and if anyone is interested, I'll tell it in it's entirety, but the condensed version:
He's ticked at us, and so built a large wooden fence next to our driveway. He only put up 3 sections of fence (long enough to cover his view of our camper). He put the fence up 3 inches from the driveway! I can't even walk in between the fence and the camper! Can't open the door to the camper!

He's just a miserable, lonely old man who is trying to ben vindictive. I can't believe he went to so much trouble to aggravate us.

Before anyone flames me, he's lonely because of his own actions, not because we're mean to him. In fact, we've been nothing but nice.

 

[Maleficent13]

Can you move the camper? Seems like, from your short post, that's what's annoying him.

 

[LiteBrite]

Is the fence sitting on the property line?

 

[Miranda Danda]

That's a sad situation for everyone involved. I hope that he can be a little bit nicer and I hope that y'all continue to do the right thing even though he may not be.

 

[Southern4sure]

Has he talked to you about the view of the camper? If so and the fence is on his property line then he is not responsible for you not being able to get into your camper. Sorry it came down to this. Hopefully you can work things out.

 

[DVC Sadie]

First of all I feel for you!

I would get a surveyer out to my property pronto to see exactly where my property ends and your neighbors begin. I would then go to City Hall and find out how many feet or inches that need to be given on each side of the property line before anything can be built. (Easement) The county can make your neighbor take down the fence if it is not legal.

 

[Evil Queen]

Well, regardless of how nasty he is, I can understand about not wanting to look at the camper. We had a camper (that fit into the bed of a pickup) on our carport, and it was an eyesore to me, I could only imagine what the neighbors thought.

The city then made us put up some type of "covering" around it. I used one of those bamboo type rolldown shades for the area that is open. I was glad to get rid of that thing a couple of years ago.

Is the fence on his property or yours? If it's his, probably not much you can do about that. You could check with your city to see if it breaks any codes. If it does he would have to remove it.

Can you maybe re-position the camper to make access for you easier? That's about the only things I can think of to try.

Some folks like being lonely and miserable, no matter what you try. I would just try to make the best of the situation that is good for you and your family. Good luck.

 

[Southern4sure]

That's a sad situation for everyone involved. I hope that he can be a little bit nicer and I hope that y'all continue to do the right thing even though he may not be.

I love your "air quotes are so in"

 

[Disney Doll]

Maybe he thought you were trying to tick him off by putting your camper so close to his property. If he put up a fence on the property line that is so close to your camper that you can't get in the door, that means your camper is quite close to his property line. Maybe he doesn't like staring at a camper all day. I know I probably wouldn't either.

 

[AprilShowers]

He's not bothered by the camper. It's been there a long time, and we talked to him about it.
He's ticked because when we put in our new driveway (7 years ago) he started getting water in his basement.
There's a low spot between our driveway and his house, and yes, our houses are close together, but my camper is on my property and not bothering him at all.

He gets a trickle in his basement. We know this because he's been bugging DH to do something about it for 7 years and took DH down to the basement to show him "all the water". DH offered MANY solutions, and was very willing to do something to help the guy out. Putting in drainage tiles, lots of other suggestions made. He said he shouldn't HAVE to do any of those things, because it's our fault he's getting water. DH was gonna do the work.

His eaves spouts come out right in this low spot, and probably contribute to the problem as well. He doesn't think so....

He went so far as to go to the city to see if they would make us rip out our driveway and re-do it because he now gets water in his (unfinished) basement. The city told him to pound salt.

Two weeks ago, DH complained to his (neighbor's) renters that they were partially blocking the entrance of our driveway. The renters apologised, and moved their car. There were no angry words, just a polite "Could you move your car up a bit?"
Neighbor comes bursting out his door (we think drunk) ranting and raving about the water in his basement, and we have a huge problem over here, and he will "take care of you!"

Next thing we know, there's this fence.
Now, we can move the camper over a bit closer to our house without a problem. We're only mildly annoyed by the fence, and truthfully somewhat amused that he would go to such trouble to aggravate us.

It must be terrible to be that miserable.