Neighbor Disputes: What to do when your neighbor invades your property

I have a neighbor who's 70 years old, his son is the police captain in town, his other son shares a company with his father (the 70 yr old) in addition he's also on the zoning board. The mayor of our town is in bussiness with the older neigbor. I had a snow removal issue, I live next to a rite-a-way (paper road) his son the captain was plowing the snow from his drivway across the street in to the right-a-way. This made my house look like crap. I called the police, the officer who answered the call said to me, that my boss's father. Did I mention code 167-11 prohibiting dumping of snow of water into the rite-a-way.

Now i have a blinding spot light in my living room window for about a year, took pics, call the cops I have the police reports, we went to court he lost i won yeah
so I thought he hasnt moved the direction of the light, worse he leaves it on 18 hours a day, 430pm to 600 am.

hopatcong new jersey, can some one please help

My neighbor has been bugging me for since I've lived in my house. My father bought it in 2004, and initially my neighbor told me dad because he had been tending to the area on our property next to his land if my dad wouldn't mind that he keep tending that area. My dad doesn't understand english very well, he said something and the neighbor took that as a green flag to do whatever he wants.

2 years down the line the neighbor decides to put a fence up in his backyard, naturally he didn't get a land survey done because he know's what he's doing because he's an experienced real estate agent (sarcasm here!) My dad brought it up with his builders but they talked to him and they totally ignored my dad's pleas.

All the while the area in the front of the property (our land) next to his about 20feet into our property he has been "tending to". So my dad decides that he wants a fence too. Now we have an HOA so we never really tried bothering with the fence but recently my neighbor had been encroaching more and more into our property. Infact because he had a drainage issue he decides to jump his fence onto our property (in the backyard) and use his trimmer to destry the grass along his fence on our side so the water flows directly into our yard (because his elevation is higher than ours). I got really upset one day about this and told him to leave the premisses, after we exchanged a few words he left and never did that again. Soon after my dad started asking him if he could show us his deed or map of his property because we wanted to put a fence up and we didn't want to encroach on his land (also my dad wanted to bring up the issue of his fence being on our property) The guy basically ignored my dad again, he never showed my dad his map but instead he kept showing my dad OUR own property map. All this dad was validate my dad's claim that he was encroaching on our land. Well a few months went by we kept going to his house to talk to him (me and my dad)

I sent him a letter one day because it was really had to get a hold of him. That's when things really got heated, its not like we went as low as personal attacks but he started arguing with me over a few inches of grass being too long. Its not like he cared to look anywhere just the front area connecting with his property, that he now considers his. So he basically changed his story on us, because he'd been taking care of it all this time, now he says well it was mine all along. Well we talked to other real estate agents, land scapers, and our HOA, everyone says yes its ours, its on our property map so there was no arguing with that. He eventually got a land survey done, althought i'm not sure if he initiated this or someone else in the neighborhood did because about 5 houses got surveyed at the same time. Now there was definite proof of where the property lines were so he was forced to move his fence back.

His wife came over and admitted she was sorry, and that her husband wouldn't "tend" that area in the front of the house anymore since it wasn't his. But the husband is a fanatic about keeping his lawn pristine, I mean really he is a fanatic, because he cuts his lawn with a riding mower atleast 2 times a week and even then for hours making multiple passes around his lawn. I really can't compete with that because I don't have the time. His grass is better looking than ours, there's no doubt but i'm not competing either. He started arguing with me one day saying he couldn't stand looking at the grass when its so long, (so maybe he has a lawn fetish, I don't know) well it was only the grass next to his property in the front of the yard. Now he says its a utility easement so its a shared property and he can do whatever he wants. Also note prior to his fence being moved back, he had sprinklers installed at the area in the front. He got angry at me because he said I shouldn't care about that area, that because he's been taking care of it, he's been doing me a hugh favor. I tried to explain to him that I simply didn't like him encroaching on our property, and that I didn't want his favor of cutting the grass on our property. Well at that point he doesn't consider that area his or ours, he says its shared common property just because its a utility easement.

I looked into it myself and all a utility easement is that the utility company has partial rights over the land, naturally for utility lines, etc. He doesn't get to put his sprinklers, cut the grass, etc. So I recently decided to put a mulch bed there along the property line, and now he's at it again, he said he's gonna call the balitmore county property something or other to make sure we can do that. He also questioned my dad, telling him you can't put trees there, you can't put a fence there, you can't put pillers there, etc. Well, I just wanna know is there any grounds for what the guy is saying ? Does a utility easement allow him more rights over that area than us, even though we are paying an extra 40,000 for that utility easement? I just want a definite answer on this becuase its driving me nuts that I can't even stand in that area without him giving me a hard time.

Sorry this took so long to explain but I figured I'd get it all out without a single detail missing.

Thanks for any advice in advance.

In Virginia, my neighbors tree fell as a result of a storm. It crushed my shed (it is a wooden shed that was custom made to match the house. Had a workshop, shelving and electricity)

I have a deductible for insurance. The neighbor says they are not responsible. I want them to pay the deductible.

The previous owner told me when the fence went up they have some of my land in their yard......how do I get a surveyor to check that? If they will not pay for their damage, I want to make them pay to move the fence.

I wish to find out what right I have as and adult, who is, being abused by the neighbor childern and their parents know this, and they continue to let them do it. Their son invaded are yard without conconsent form myself or daughter, and put himself over a fence that they have put up. To retrive a ball that was accidentally thrown over the fence. We have called the cops, about the son, who has thrown rocks against my grandson and another child. The parents did nothing. But the childern contintue to name calling and others. So I wast to know what rights I have as a neighbor.

Please assist me I'm totaly lost in all this.
Thank You
Julie A

I have a neighbor that I have asked nicely repeatedly about not mowing in my yard for several months. There were many of times where I just ignored it. Well one day I came home and there is a line drawn with weed killer to seperate our property. Well I ignored it and didn't say anything. Well come the next day there are two words written in my yard with weed killer. It says B**** and C***. These are not small written words either. I went over to the neighbors to ask about it and a man (boyfriend/husband)came out and looked at it. He acted like he didn't know anything about it. He said that he knew that girlfriend/wife had did the line. He said he would let the lady know that we asked about it. Well I decided to call the cops because I wanted this documented. The police came and went over to neighbors house but no one came to the door. I told him that I couldn't prove that the lady did it because I didn't see her actually do it. The cop said that he would come by again to talk to the neighbor. Well we called the cop many of times to make sure that he talked to her and after a week he finally was able to catch the lady at home to talk to her. Well she admitted to doing it and claimed that we came into her property. I've only went to her property to tell her not to mow on my side and also when I was weed eating the back I would let them know so the dogs wouldn't accidentally get hurt. Well the cop acted like we should not worry about it because it could make things worse. It bothers me though because people should not get away with doing things like that. Well the word are still noticeable today. It's been there for almost a month. What should I do about this? Should I just ignore it and move on?

what i,d do is put up no trespass signs,stating violators will be prosucuted,and install a cam, that will document any violation.....that,ll keep them of your property. tom

Dear legal zoom.
Since i moved in this rural Neighborhood,other Pepole moved
in,plantet Trees wich are now obstructing my View.Branches
hanging over my Pool dropping Leaves,so it takes more Maintanace.Large Oaktree Branches continue to grow 3-4 feet per Year over my Vegetable Garden wich gives me soon no more Space to plant anything.Talking to my Neighbors had no results,or cooperation.What can I do?Mabe you can advice me.
Sincerely;Karl

My neighbor destroyed my plants---I think they are on an easement that she never uses. She just did it out of spite. If the plants are on a maintenanc easement, does the neighbor have the right to pull them up, kill them, and throw them in her garbage can?
Thank you for any assistance and information you can provide.

What can you do if you are a home owner and you live next door to someone who rents and: a: lets there little dog pee and crap in your yard. b: uses drugs and sells them out in the open. c:plucks his hundreds of cigerette butts in your yard on purpose . along with other things the police know about all while you work 60 hrs a week and he gets high 24/7? I have a wife, 2 boys one is almost 2 and the other is 5. I would hate to loose my freedom for doing something stupid to this guy. suggestions?

We put up a fence on our side yard and the finished side is on ours. Our neighbor told us to take it down, that the other side is to be on her side. Is this true.

I had a land survey done and my neighboor mowes 3 1/2 feet on my side of the property line/stake. I have shown him the stake and he does not care. I found the stake and burried a 4' pole and tied rainbow colored string from the stake to the fence to show a straight line and how bad his mowing wis. He pulled the pole out and moved it to my side. I gave him a copy of the survey and he just doesn't care because he has always mowed where he is mowing. Maybe I should put a huge landscape boulder or just park my truck in his driveway so he cant leave in the morning, becasue he does not care where the property line is. He does this to the neighbor on the other side too.

i bout my house in october of 2010 from my neighber who in his 70s or 80s and he keeps coming ove when im home or at work i have photos of him on my property and witnesses seeing him looking in my windows and walking my yard i also have no tresspassing signs and the cops a number of times and still nothing what can i do?

I recently purchased a home and had a survey done as part of the closing process. As a result of the survey, I realized that the neighbor had several trucks, used tires, etc. on my property. (A shed is also built right on the far corner of the property and a part of a gate is over four feet on my property.)

I spoke to him about it and he agreed to move everything and even mentioned that he had the property surveyed about 4 years ago and suggested he knew all of the boundaries. (It was his cousin that supposedly owned the property I purchased... )

I was told that even though he acknowledged verbally the property lines that I should put it in writing. Does legal zoom have a document that will cover this?

Thanks.

The man that put my fence up put the fence ten feet past MY property line towards my house which gave the neighbor more land.
The question is since that is my property on the otherside of the fence I can legally have the lanscaper weed wack it correct? He told me she got mad when he tried to do it. Now I don't think she realizes that the fence man put the fence ten feet in to my property.
So I am going to the town hall and get the deed and get a surveyor to put stakes up and this will show her where my property is. She has a day care and I am afraid the kid could get hurt on the stakes. They shouldn't be playing there in the first place without a fenced in yard but because we live at the end of a cul de sac she thinks it is safe. She does have a fenced in play yard in the back but she doesn't like to use it because she would have to have them climb stairs to get there or get back in the house and also she can see the parents pulling up in the front yard.
The reason I put the fence up in the first place was to keep her day care kids out of my driveway. I would come home in the winter and see there little foot prints in the snow and if they got hurt on my driveway and slipped the parents could sue me for not having it plowed, sanded etc. even though I was at work at the time.
So the fence took care of that problem but now they hang on the fence which isn't good either.
Question: Can I legally go around the fence and cut the weeds and if they find out its my property do I have to cut the grass too? Because that would really cause a problem with them. They cut theirs at different times than I do.

My neighbor keeps throwing rocks at my home when I'm not home. I can't prove it. His putting holes in the vinil siding. I live in a condo and is directly accross the way.

What can I do???

Our neighbors have been making our lives a living hell since we moved in 16 years ago. They are now placing hundreds of moth balls along our fence line and in the front of their home next to our property. They have applied at least 4 applications of moth balls (100's) in the last month. The fumes are so overwhelming we cannot open our windows and limit the time we spend outside. Is there anything legal out there to fight back with. I have emails into the EPA and the NPIC is concerned along with our County Environmental Health offices for the ingorance of our city ordinance officer that keeps ignoring us.

I would appreciate any direction of whom I can contact!

Mother of an asthmatic child that cannot play outside!

My neighbor took weed or grass killer down on the property line, in doing this she killed some of my grass. Normally I would not care about the grass, less to mow, but she sprayed it within about 10 feet of our well, which we use to drink and cook with the water in it. Second, when she sprayed the line she did it right pass where our dogs house is and the dog was in the house and could have been sprayed also. She sprayed two of our trees with the weed killer too. This is very upsetting any ideas what I can do about this. I live in Milton PA in west chillisquaque township if that makes a difference.

my neightbor is suing me for harassment - i work and am away from my home 8-10 hours a day when I come home I can
be subjected to pictures and videoing us gardening
I have call police to complain but I had to do it again
now she allowed her daughter to do this also
plus she has lured our puppy we are trying to train boundries and lured him to her property by throwing frisbee
and then made comment not responsible for what hapeens to him I take this very seriously I did not call police but
I could call her husband as a witness to this
what can I do...
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I AM A GUJARATI MALE OF AGE 85 YEARS STAY AT VILLAGE MANEKPUR, TALUKA GANDEVI. DIST NAVSARI. GUJARAT STATE.

MY NEGHBOUR IS WIDOW AGE ABOUT 45 YEARS. ( SHE IS ORIGINALLY BENGALI MARRIED TO GUJARATI)
SINCE LAST TWENTY YEARS SHE IS AT THIS PLACE. SHE LOST HER HUSBAND LAST BEFORE TWO YEARS.
AFTER HER HUSBAND'S DEATH SHE STARTED ENCHROCHING MY LAND SLOWLY. WHENEVER I OPPOSE GENTLY SHE RUSHES ON MY BODY.
FINALLY I MANAGED TO MEASURE THE LAND AND AT THE TIME OF MEASUREMENT SHE CO-OPERATED THE GOVERNMENT PEOPLE WHO HAD COME FOR MEASUREMENT. IN MEASUREMENT IT IS PROVED THAT SHE HAD ENCRCHED 5FEET X 100 FEET LAND OF MINE. AFTER THEY LEFT SHE HSS COME TO HER ORIGINAL STATE.

AGAIN SHE HAS CHANGED THE BOUNDRY TO ORIGINAL AND DOES NOT ALLOW ME TO ENTER MY PROPERTY.
MY NEIGHBOUR KNOW THIS WELL BUT NOT READY TO OPPOSE THIS LADY BECAUSE SHE SPEAKS VERY LOW LEVEL BAD WORDS.

We purchased a 15+ acre tract of woodland with an existing home a couple of years back - no other homes within 1000ft of us. This year, a small 2 acre parcel was sold to a couple who are in the process of building a huge 3800sq ft single story home with nearly 2 floors of vaulted ceilings. The have cleared all trees from they're land right up to where our woodland begins. Unfortunately, they have also dug nearly 5 ft into the hillside where our woodland begins... with no mention of any retaining wall. I can just see the mess this is going to create once soil erosion starts and our wonderfully strong southern winds hit!! They have never once come to us, introduced themselves, let us know of any plans or apologies for the inconveniences that have already hit us... Utility poles being moved from they're front lawn to ours - so that they're lawn was 'pretty'. Water from rains and runoff from the hill they've created forming pond-sized pools in our front yard. And already disputes over a full-use unrestricted easement to our home - an easement that has only been in place for 8 years even though the home, 100+ yrs old has had that 'driveway' since it was built(the land was divided up at that time for a subdivision that was never built, company went out of business and we since, have purchased all but the lot that is being developed. the easement was attached to the front lot - the one being developed, even though it was the only source of access to the existing property - otherwise our entire acreage would be land-locked. a strange layout in my opinion). The quiet country setting that we have spent a fortune on improving and restoring will now have a huge home less than 80ft from our doorstep and neighbors that seem to have absolutely no concern for how they are effecting the only neighbor they have. We have tried being nice but how much can one really put up with. This is already a nightmare for us and with they're lack of wanting to 'get along' or at least show consideration for those that will be living a stone's throw away - I can't see this getting any better.

We purchased our property 5 years ago first time buyers in America, we lived abroad and realised that there is an 8 foot easement with our neighbor, the property belongs to us, which they have admitted to our lawyer. They had built a driveway and have a half fence on our property as well. We spoke to them in a friendly manner and asked them to move off our property line as we do not want to be liable for any sues if anyone falls etc. on our piece of property which they have access to and if we sell in time to come we will have a problem due to this easement. We have engaed a lawyer and they admitted that they are on our property. We have been paying the taxes all along on this portion of property.Prior to that we had our surveyor come to confirm our property line and survey. What options might you suggest. My final assumption to this is that we go to court and let the judge decide as they are not cooperating to any instructions from our lawyer, they say they have no money to go through moving the driveway and fence, this is how they apparently bought their property. Kindly assist with maybe options on this confusing issue. Thanks in advance.

Hello! i have a condo association that has paved parking spots over the property line. the cars parking there hang an additional several feet over the line. what rights do i have on the cars hanging over the line? (i had it surveyed) The association wont return calls or letters.

Thanks!

We moved into our house in 1999. We completely relandscaped and added a new fence to our backyard. Our
contractor said that he would prefer not removing any old fence and he would just build our new fence behind all the old fences in our backyard. We were completely ok with this. Two years after our new neighbors moved in and decided to remove their old fence and share our lovely new fence. five years later they decided to buy dogs...their
dogs have damaged our fence. We have asked them to fix
what their dogs have done and they have denied that their
dogs have done anything. Obviously we can take them to court but can we also force them to replace their old fence
that they tore down and stop using ours?

Two years ago we put up a fence along one side of our property beside an empty lot that used to have one house on it. Now some greedy guy is shoving two houses on the empty lot. Problem is, he keeps taking advantage of our property. He dug so close to our newish fence that you could see the posts in the ground. He came to aske if he could remove the sections of fence for "saftey" reasons. We said yes if he agreed to replace the fence at his cost...he agreed. The next day we noticed the sections of fence gone, and that he had dug further into our property. We called and told him we were not pleased and that he is not to dig anymore. He said he wouldn't, but then did anyway. He put up some steel fencing for saftey reasons, but it does nothing for our privacy. He's had to use noisy gas powered heaters through the night so his concrete wont freeze. We went on a planed vacation and came home to some sort of markers in our yard, and I have no reason why on earth they would need to put them in our yard? The guy even asked if he could use our power. Now I can see that his build is going to be so close to the property line that there is no way he would be able to rebuild the fence. Should we be compensated for the fencing he destroyed? What can we do to keep this guy on his own property and to be more considerate of ours?

We live in a sub-development with about 1/2 acre. Our property backs up to properties behind us. The realtor and builder told us this was "forever green" and would always be treed. However, their information was wrong and we found out after we closed on our new home. In addition, there is a utility easement 12' into our property and 12' info our neighbors in back of us.

To make matters worse, the neighbors kids cut through the back to get get from our street to their house. We have asked them nicely to please not cut through. They retaliate by throwing eggs on our back deck every Halloween.

We have tried speaking to the neighbors to no avail. They are nasty and have lied to the police.

What recourse to we have other than to move? Moving is really not an option for us right now. Please help us.. we live in the State of New York. Thank you.

who owns the air space above my home and the land under my home?

I live in a condo & have an issue with upstairs neighbors..constantly stomping on floor as they walk. They have wood floors that sound like bubble wrap when they walk. Association says there is nothing they can do, they say noise is a police issue. I've called the police several times but nothing helps. Short of filing a criminal harrassment complaint, I don't know what to do...any suggestions?

My husband & I purchased a farm from his father in 1994. The farm and our house is located 3/4 mile from the main road. Our right of way is thru his brothers farm. We are extremely patient, Christian, giving people. They built a barn, moving our right of way. For 3 years my brother in law, who never spoke to us, would come up to our land, take our tractor, fill it with our fuel and work his land. My husband had to retrieve the tractor to do our own fields. My husband wouldn't speak to his brother about it because when he did at one point, his brothers wife got angry and broke his brothers arm with a baseball bat. I would come home from work and find her 3, 4 and 5 year old children in my home, my house wrecked and important things broken,my husband said because the sister in law is unstable to care for her children so her husband would let them in our house, telling her he kept them with him on the tractor. When mail was mistakenly delivered to their house with my name on it, they kept it, on one instance, a $100 camera we had returned to the company for replacement and they kept the replacement. We know they have it because one of their children, who constantly comes to our house, told us her mom received a camera in the mail with no battery. In 1997 I had a bad car accident and eveyone thought I wasn't going to make it. While I was in the hospital, our sister in law came into our house and stole my $2700 diamond ring, I had in my jewelry box from my 1st husband, a gift I was saving for my daughter when she married. My 9 yr. old daughter saw her in my room. I spent 3 months on my back in my hospital bed. I taught Sunday School and was a Boy Scout leader, our Church family and friends from scouts took turns delivering meals to our house and changing my youngests childs diaper. My mother in law told me the sister in law put a gun to her head because I was getting attention. I didn't understand that but it upset me so much that I was afraid she would come up her and try to shoot me or harm my children. I broke out in a rash from head to toe. One of the nurses taking care of me said it was nerves and she knew the sister in laws family and they aren't 'right'.We became extremely poor. Them taking our things went on for 3 years till I attempted to leave my husband, telling him he can't afford to keep 2 families and I'll take our 5 children and get out of the way. He stopped letting his brother take our tractors, fuel, lawn mower, car, etc, without ever asking. Now, they have come into a large amount of money by sueing someone from a car accident. My husband asked his brother if he could start giving us small monthly checks to pay us back and his brother said yes. Three months and no checks later, my husband asked the brother when the checks would start coming and his brother said,'what fer tractor?, what fer fuel?, I don't know what yer talking about!' The brother has now purchased the farm behind our farm, that we were renting to plant corn to feed our cows, and they have started traveling thru our property, damaging our lane and our once quiet life now consists of noisy farm vehicles traveling directly past our house. There must be a law that states they have to go around on the main road to get to their new property, which is only 1 mile longer, and it is paved. My husband doesn't want to talk to his brother about it for fear his wife will beat him again. I've offered to go down, but my husband asked me not to.

Brother-in-law lives infront of our farm, on our right of way out onto the main road. He has purchased land behind our farm. Instead of driving around with his loud farm vehicles, he has started driving thru our property, damaging our lanes.

Root encroachment is not considered the owner's responsibility of removal. I read this statement and verified with a lawyer practicing in Florida.

who does the left side of the back garden fence,it was destroy by the wind.

I came home tonight to find that the hoa has chopped a tree so much that all the privacy it provided is gone...is there legal recourse that can be taken....I have a year lease here ....thanks so much for your help.....

I bought a property in Jan 2012 and just had it surveyed to find the neighbors house is 3/4 on my property as well as the septic and well and the electric meter. I brought this to her attention and her response was I dont care they are foreclosing on me anyways. I then filed a suit to have the encraochment removed since she did not care and of course she did not respond and by default I have a judgement to remove such encraochments. So do i remove it before the foreclosure or do I wait and inform the bank of the encraochment? Maybe get the property for little or nothing considering they only can foreclose on her property and not mine. any thoughts thanks tj

I just bought and moved into a house that has water views. My neighbor behind me has very high bamboo trees that obstruct a big part of my view. This is only a small part of my problem. The roots are growing like crazy into my yard and sprouting all over the place. What can I do about this? I also feel the roots will keep spreading and growing on their property and I'll have no view of the water left. The view is one of the reasons I bought this house.

HELP! I bought a house in Los Angeles Aug 2009 and just did a survey in 2012 of February.
The neighbors and previous owner told me that they have an easement to get to their house as ingress egress.
As i looked into the title company for an answer they stated that there is no recorded easement.
The surveyor stated that they are parking on our property even though that type of easement is to move your car to and from your garage not park on.. They have been parking on our land for 4 1/2 years.
What can I do? Thanks for your help.

My neighbors are very often throwing parties that last into the early morning hours and whenever they have these parties, there company parks in our yard! We have asked several times for them to move there cars, and they do, but they come and park in our yard again the next time there is a party. We do not live in the city limits, and they often shoot guns at their parties, which I do not have a problem with being that I own guns also, but they often shoot into the night which makes it hard to sleep. My final problem with my neighbors is that they have and continue to rev there bikes in the late hours of the night when I'm trying to sleep. Is there anything I can do?

Hello,
My property line is close to the chimney of the neighbor about 2-3 feet so I can build the fence next to their chimney or not.
Thank you for your help,
Minh

I have crazy neighbors. They put up a fence in their backyard in 2006 "yippee"!!! However a recent survey showed that the beginning of their fence was around 2 feet into their property and decreases as it gets to the back. However, did I mention our neighbors are crazy? She 'says' she is scared or my husband intimidates her, BUT she is constantly coming on the other side of the fence (our side). We put up "no trespassing" signs and they called the HOA board. We blocked the backyard with our lawn chairs and they called the police to say the chairs were on their property. Can we take them to court to force them to correct the fence issue so they don't have the freedom to just walk into our backyard?

I have a question i want to get a pool but neighbors power line runs right across my yard hangs only 12 to 15 feet of ground can i do anything to get them to move their line friend works for power company said all my neighbor had to do was call em and seems like they dont care my kids try throwing a ball it hits the wire what can we do.

A few years back a neighbor sold us a lot that had been attached to his property. It was surveyed and marked and as soon as we had the paperwork signed my wife and I paid to have a chain link fence installed both to keep his dog out and keep our kids in! Their home was sold, demolished and a new house built. While they were building we allowed them to take down the fence to get equipment in to finish the house. They built the home over further so the edge of the house is on the property line. Today I noticed they have put up a stockade type wooden fence. They did this by attaching it ( using U shaped hooks through the fence and onto the pole that runs along the top of our fence ). While I plan on heading over to speak to them directly I figured I'd get your take on this action and if they have any right to do such a thing.

Let me say first off that our neighbors have never given us any issues but they are not the cleanest yard keeping people we know. We moved in our house 4 years ago and we all have approximately 3.5 acres each. This past year we noticed one side of our property staying soaking wet. It was winter so we chalked it up to clay content in the soil and the wet winter months. Well summer is here and it is still soaking wet. Wet enough to sink our tractor on that side of the yard. It hasn't rained but 2.08" this month. I am starting to think our neighbors field line has a leak and is running into our yard. Several things including super green, fast growing grass and the smell is a huge indication. Is there someone I can contact to have it tested before I knock on my neighbors door and accuse them of their feces running in my yard. I would like to try to be as civil as possible. Anyone also know anything about the laws on field lines and neighbors?

A neighboring property (west of my property. Continously "Dumps Exhaust" into my Property. For years & (Refuses to stop). How do I stop it ? ?

My neighbors have a HUGE light on their side/garage door that shines into my backyard and lights my whole backyard up, it shines into my bedroom and I have two windows on two different walls, the light shines through both windows! I doubt they will turn their light off, what can I do? It looks like daylight in my backyard and my bedroom at night time! Please help!!!

I own a property which is beside a church, they are now digging a. Trench through my yard for a drain. They have no permission or easement, what can I do to stop them.

I own the house I live in, which has been in my family for nearly 50 years. The block I live on has been a fairly decent block where most neighbors got along quite well. Just recently, one of my closest neighbors came into ownership of the house next to me through inheritance, and began renting it out as of December, 1012. The new neighbors are basically quiet, with the exception of constant running up and down the stairs and some thumping and bumping around. The problem is, they smoke marijuana, and the smoke is coming into my house. For the past month, I've been affected by this. Some mornings I've awakened hard to breathed because of the drug smoke that had saturated my house while I was asleep, and consequently I've been breathing in all night. I work at home, so I'm affected by this all day, everyday. I went to my neighbors house and introduced myself, then told him why I was there. He claims he don't smoke marijuana. So I said that I didn't say that you did, but obviously someone in this house or whom you invite in your home does, because my house is constantly saturated with the smell of marijuana. I said it is affecting the quality of my home life, and is making me and my daughter sick. I said it's giving me headaches and literally sick to my stomach. I said I can't tell you what to do in your house, but if what you're doing is a health risk to me and my family, and having a negative affect on the quality of our home life, then I have to speak on it. He said nothing. So I suggest that he open his windows and keep his house aired out so that my house isn't affected by the odor of marijuana coming from his house into mines. He said something like. "okay." But it's been a little over a since I spoke to my neighbor, and the problem still exist. Just this morning I woke up again, feeling suffocated from the heavy presence of the residue of marijuana smoke in my bedroom and all in my house. Right now as I type this, I am in my bedroom, been trapped here for nearly 3 hours, because it is the safest place in my house to be right now. What should I do to remedy this problem? Should I approach the owner of the house, whom I've known for several decades, or take some form of legal action against my neighbors who thinks their rights exceeds mine's and whom continues to put me and my daughter's health at risk and is making the quality of our lives a living nightmare?