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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:48:20 PM EDT
[#1]
I vote wire or picket fence. Obviously reminding your neighbor a few times already doesn't do it. Regardless of if there may be dementia or comprehension issues.
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:48:39 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: how his lawn I try not to trespass on my neighbors property.......most people don't like that kind of stuff. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:51:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Look up Adverse Possession laws for Missouri........ Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: He doesn’t own it who cares. Free cutting, more time to spend on your life. Look up Adverse Possession laws for Missouri........ While all states are different, generally mowing doesn’t allow adverse possession. He has to have complete control, excluding you. Generally. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:51:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's that going to do? A big strip of dead grass from the roundup I sprayed didn't do anything. What would some flags do? You think he’s going to mow over flagging? |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:51:57 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I do that when I can, but I'm at work doing the day...and he's retired, so he will mow when I'm not home most of the time. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Mow before he does I do that when I can, but I'm at work doing the day...and he's retired, so he will mow when I'm not home most of the time. What does it matter? |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:53:43 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Boulders FPNI |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:53:45 PM EDT
[#7]
That may be where he buried the elusive wife
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:55:06 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What's the huge deal? I mean really? I know GD like to find the nit picky-ist shit to bitch about but this is a new level.  Its an old dude with some loose marbles.  "Hey! You replied to my post!" "Yep, you better look out, after 10 replies he'll own your thread." "Yup." "Derp." For 3 to 6 pages. Be patient waiting for more of the story. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:55:38 PM EDT
[#9]
I'd ask him if he wants to mow whole thing and give him a nice bottle and enjoy it together.
Fuck it one less thing I'd have to do |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:56:53 PM EDT
[#10]
Are you worried that if he mows it he can later claim it?
Get it in writing that he agrees to stop! Then resort to obstacles including a fence. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:56:58 PM EDT
[#11]
Hedgerow or closely spaced Cyprus trees.
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:57:38 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You think he’s going to mow over flagging? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What's that going to do? A big strip of dead grass from the roundup I sprayed didn't do anything. What would some flags do? You think he’s going to mow over flagging? I guess I can find out. I have some of those little pink land scalping flags.....might put a couple up, just to see what happens. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:58:48 PM EDT
[#13]
Dang this is already at 6 pages
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Posted: 6/6/2023 2:59:00 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That may be where he buried the elusive wife Honestly....who in the hell knows. I find it odd that I've never seen his wife in the 10+ years I've lived there. But...he didn't start mowing my property until just a couple of years ago. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:00:23 PM EDT
[#15]
Yeah, I’m that neighbor.
I mow the section between my neighbor’s driveway and mine. I’m even nice enough not to run over her Hostas. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:00:40 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd ask him if he wants to mow whole thing and give him a nice bottle and enjoy it together. Fuck it one less thing I'd have to do Now that's just weird....... |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:00:56 PM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I guess I can find out. I have some of those little pink land scalping flags.....might put a couple up, just to see what happens. It’s worth a shot. If he does mow over them, then it might be time to escalate. I’d be pissed AF at that point. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:01:33 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, I’m that neighbor. I mow the section between my neighbor’s driveway and mine. I’m even nice enough not to run over her Hostas. But......if your neighbor asked you to stop....multiple times, would you keep doing it? |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:07:16 PM EDT
[#19]
There is a telephone pole on that part that he is mowing, so tells me that is an easement, so you or your neighbor can fight all you want. Absurd to think he is mowing the easement to try to evoke some kind of imminent domain.
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:10:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There is a telephone pole on that part that he is mowing, so tells me that is an easement, so you or your neighbor can fight all you want. Absurd to think he is mowing the easement to try to evoke some kind of imminent domain. That might very well be true. Still trying to figure out why after 8 years....he decided to start mowing the "easement" on my lot, and then not stopping after me asking him nicely to do so multiple times....and him agreeing to stop. Is it acceptable now to mow your neighbors "easements"? And actually it's a pole for the power lines that go to my house...... |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:21:44 PM EDT
[#21]
He’s just taking care of his wife’s grave.
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:22:46 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: He’s just taking care of his wife’s grave. Guess he should have buried her on his own property
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:30:04 PM EDT
[#23]
Is he basically using your property for the equivalent of turn rows in crop fields, then coming back and squaring it up to make it look nice?
How big of mower is he using? |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:33:04 PM EDT
[#24]
Man, I wish these were the extent of my worries.
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:34:47 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Is he basically using your property for the equivalent of turn rows in crop fields, then coming back and squaring it up to make it look nice? How big of mower is he using? A zero turn. He doesn't need to come 30ft onto my property to square things up. And if that was in fact the case, he probably should have told me...and not said "oh, I was just trying to be nice...I won't do it any more". If he said "my mower needs more room to turn around"....or something to that affect, I would have been totally cool with it. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:40:29 PM EDT
[#26]
Dump gravel there so neither of you have to mow it again.
Till it up and plant sunflowers or some other wildflowers and make sure that he knows you are growing them. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:43:48 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dump gravel there so neither of you have to mow it again. Till it up and plant sunflowers or some other wildflowers and make sure that he knows you are growing them. Good idea. I think I will just tell my wife to put a flower garden there.....and if he mows over the flowers, he can deal with her
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:47:38 PM EDT
[#28]
Certified mail him a check for a couple $, payment for services rendered.
Include a list of critiques, a few things he could do a little better from now on. Bonus points if you also include a gift certificate for a small McFlurry. Either he accepts that you hired him for cheap, or he denies it and stops. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 3:58:23 PM EDT
[#29]
Unless he scalps it, who gives a fuck? I'd thank him and make a journal entry of each time I've spoken to him about mowing it with dates and approximate times henceforth for establishing I maintained my possession, maybe even record w/ your phone (audio would be fine if a one party recording state).
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:03:26 PM EDT
[#30]
Establish dominance, pee on his mower.
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:06:19 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Unless he scalps it, who gives a fuck? I'd thank him and make a journal entry of each time I've spoken to him about mowing it with dates and approximate times henceforth for establishing I maintained my possession, maybe even record w/ your phone (audio would be fine if a one party recording state). So who gives a fuck....but make sure you document it all so what when it comes time....you can give a fuck? How about he stops mowing my lawn like he said he would? Or is that too much to ask? |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:09:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:12:57 PM EDT
[#33]
OP never stated why this bothers him?
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:17:34 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I guess I can find out. I have some of those little pink land scalping flags.....might put a couple up, just to see what happens. Pink? I use blue. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:17:57 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Perhaps you should plant some corn on your side. 
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:20:32 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A zero turn. He doesn't need to come 30ft onto my property to square things up. And if that was in fact the case, he probably should have told me...and not said "oh, I was just trying to be nice...I won't do it any more". If he said "my mower needs more room to turn around"....or something to that affect, I would have been totally cool with it. If I needed "turning room," I would make it by making a suitable number of passes parallel to the property line on my side first. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:23:21 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: OP never stated why this bothers him? Because if someone is going to mow a 950sq/ft chunk of my yard....I want it to be me. Honestly, the only part that bothers me is that I've told him to stop three different times....he agrees to....and then he keeps doing it. It's like some crazy passive aggressive thing or something. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:24:30 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If I needed "turning room," I would make it by making a suitable number of passes parallel to the property line on my side first. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: A zero turn. He doesn't need to come 30ft onto my property to square things up. And if that was in fact the case, he probably should have told me...and not said "oh, I was just trying to be nice...I won't do it any more". If he said "my mower needs more room to turn around"....or something to that affect, I would have been totally cool with it. If I needed "turning room," I would make it by making a suitable number of passes parallel to the property line on my side first. Exactly. It's a 50" zero turn....he's coming 30ft onto my property. That's 7 extra passes on my side to "square things up and turn around". BS |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:25:48 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Because if someone is going to mow a 950sq/ft chunk of my yard....I want it to be me. Honestly, the only part that bothers me is that I've told him to stop three different times....he agrees to....and then he keeps doing it. It's like some crazy passive aggressive thing or something. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:26:07 PM EDT
[#40]
Buy him a beer and say 'thanks man, I appreciate it.'
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:30:36 PM EDT
[#41]
My only fix, when I get time, is putting an in ground sprinkler system in my yard with the heads on the property line.
The guy on the other side did exactly that and even then it took a while to sink in. Some people are just F'ing stupid and my neighbor is one of them, even after pointing out the property line multiple times, with a stake in the back and drilled pin hole on the curb. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:31:03 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My neighbor mows two widths of his push mower onto my side of the fence line in the front yard. It's weird, I try not to let it bother me but I mow at a tall setting and he almost scalps his yard. Now that would be a legitimate reason to ask him to stop. I really don't see how adverse possession is a plausible case here unless you are neglecting your own yard (which it does not sound like). If you mow and do basic lawn duty as you say it shows you are maintaining and not neglecting your own property. Now, if this just bothers you for the sake of it bothering you, put up a fence. You have asked him a number of times to stop and he has kept doing it, certified letter or not he will continue to do it. Especially if he isn't right in the head. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:31:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:33:12 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Buy him a beer and say 'thanks man, I appreciate it.' Yeah.....no. after three times of him telling me "sorry about that, I won't do it anymore".....and he still does it's, I'm not thanking him for squat. When did it become ok to trespass onto your neighbors property..... especially after them repeatedly telling you "please stop" multiple times? I guess I'm having a hard time figuring out why I'm in the wrong here. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:34:55 PM EDT
[#45]
Adverse possession.
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:35:53 PM EDT
[#46]
Old non-running cars and cinderblocks has been the traditional method for this sort of area denial for decades.
Personally, I’d plant the area with brambles or English roses. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:37:52 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The old guy got a divorce from his wife about 5 years ago, and has been living in that Barn in the picture ever since. He said his wife lives in the house now... So she's his landlord now. Tell her that you don't want him and his dog trespassing anymore. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:43:50 PM EDT
[#48]
Plot twist: he mows it because it’s actually his property.
Have you recently paid for an actual survey? In my area, most of the time, these utility poles like in the picture get placed squarely on the property line. My brother just went through a property dispute where his deed said his property included 3 feet of the neighboring property. The neighbors deed said nothing about this. Neighbor sued my brother and lost, costing my brother 12k in legal expenses |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:48:24 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Plot twist: he mows it because it’s actually his property. Have you recently paid for an actual survey? In my area, most of the time, these utility poles like in the picture get placed squarely on the property line. My brother just went through a property dispute where his deed said his property included 3 feet of the neighboring property. The neighbors deed said nothing about this. Neighbor sued my brother and lost, costing my brother 12k in legal expenses Yep...had it surveyed when I bought it. I even asked the guy the first time I talked to him about mowing my lawn "you know that's part of my yard right?". Yep...he knew. |
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Posted: 6/6/2023 4:49:19 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As long as your deed shows the property lines, I'd say let him mow. One less crap for you to mow around. And time is so precious |
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