Your neighbor needs to be taught a lesson and you are the one who needs to teach it to him/her. You cannot allow this to go without harsh and severe retaliation, because if you do your hell will only get worse. Don't listen to the appeasers, that you should try and make peace and all that. Your neighbor is vermin.
Renosteinke is SO RIGHT about a man's property being his, and should be able to do with it as he pleased. And even more to the point, regarding the "land of the free," and our taking delight in setting up deed restrictions, neighborhood councils, etc. for the express purpose of ensuring that nobody has any freedom couldn't be more DEAD ON!
Here's what you need to do to fix your neighbor:
1). Hire an attorney to protect your interests.
2). Obtain a survey of your property. If anything of your neighbors is even 1/64" on your property, start the ball rolling with lawsuits, etc.
3). If you've considerd adding an extension to your home, now is the time to do it. Get all the permits you could possibly need, and be sure all the I's are dotted and T's crossed. Do whatever you have to to ensure any such work is long, loud, and dispruptive -- within the limits of laws and codes. Start as early as the law allows, be as loud as noise ordinaces allow, finish as late as the law allows and use the brightest generator powered (loud) temporary lighting as lighting ordinances allow.
4). Upgrade you electric service, and demand the POCO shut down the power for your safety even if you always work live. Make sure you take as long as possible. Try to make some mistakes so power needs to be shut down for another day or more. Oh, and make sure you have a really loud generator (again within the law) to supply you and your family power, and be sure to flaunt the convenience, like air conditioning and ice cream on a hot day.
By the way, exercise the generator as often as possible.
5). Upgrade your gas service such that the street needs to be dug up and creates maximum disruption. Ditto for your water and sewer service.
6). Make sure you have cameras pointed at all angles of your neighbors house. If you see any repair trucks or work going on at all, check with the AHJ that all appropriate permits were filed. If not, send them the video and insist upon enforcement. Of course, if it’s a big project, let them finish first, so they have to start all over when the plans weren't filed.
7). If they do any work on their own vehicles, make sure all fluids are properly disposed of. If they do any HVAC or MVAC work, check to see if they’re recovering the refrigerant as required by law, and rat them out to the EPA as appropriate.
8). If fireworks are legal, make sure you celebrate 4th of July in a zealous and partriotic way, i.e. LOUD! And don’t limit yourself to the 4th either if the law allows.
9). If you’re subject to recycling laws, go through you neighbors garbage (this is legal) and make sure they’re recycling everything in accordance with the law. If not, get your camera out and document everything, making certain the house address shows in all photos.
10). If your neighbor has cable TV service, next time there is an outage, disconnect the cable from you house at the demarcation point (or from inside your house where no one can see) then hook up your meg tester to the provider side of the demarc and then crank away. Delight in hearing the pop and poof of expensive electronics exploding. You'll damage other neighbors components too, but that’s the collateral damage of war.
11). Try to create as much RFI interference as possible to screw up cordless phones, wi-fi, and other wireless devices.
12). Always make sure you use lawn maintenance equipment during the earliest and latest hours of the day as allowed by law.
13). Be sure to rub all of the above in your neighbors face every time you see him/her.
This is only a small sampling of what you can do to make your neighbors life miserable. Hopefully, others here will chime in with additional ideas. Of course, anything you do must be 100% within the law. Your success will be measured by:
a). Moving truck in front of your neighbors house.
b). Ambulance in front of your neighbors house.
c). Having your neighbor knock on your door begging for mercy.
d). All of the above.
And no, this is not coming from some 18 year old kid. I am 40 years old, and have spent too many years trying to make nice with my enemies and giving myself ulcers. Life is too short, so you should have fun and enjoy sticking it to others who so justly deserve and need it. Heck, you might even be the hero of the neighborhood.
Joe
