Speaking of spite, HelloFresh are aggressively trying to prevent their workers from unionising, and are the subject of several unfair labour practice charges.

As someone that works for a fence company, I can say spit fences are pretty common. My favorite was an old man that was first to buy in a new subdivion, through a loophole he never joined the HOA or signed any of their contracts. He had a fence that went against what the HOA allowed and they bothered him for years to remove it/ change it, but again he wasn't part of the HOA so they could make him. In 2018 he got tired of the harassment and hired us to take down his fence and install a new one. He took down his wooden picket fence and installed a white Vinyl privacy fence. Now this may not seem too bad, but the HOA hated vinyl fences and white fences. And for those that don't know white vinyl can be VERY bright (almost blindingly so) when the sun hits it right. So now the HOA members have this large obnoxious fence in their sea of small black fences. The best part is that he moved out of that house a few months later, never sold the house and it just sits empty as a middle finger to the HOA.

I remember reading a story about a man who wanted to build a ten-foot fence on his property, but he was only legally allowed to have a five-foot fence, so he built a five-foot concrete wall and built his five-foot fence on top of it. The town council tried to sue him for having a ten-foot fence, but the court found him innocent, since the fence itself was only five feet tall.

I bought my first house about a year and a half ago. A few weeks after moving in, my neighbor to the back knocked on my door and asked if he could use my driveway, hill, and gate at the back of my property to unload some grazing cattle for a couple months. I had wondered why there was a gate installed between two properties, now I had my answer. He and the previous owners of my house had an arrangement for access; a verbal easement, I guess? Either way, I happily told him "sure!" It was the easiest access to the land he needed the cattle on, so why not? Fast forward to him picking up said cattle while I was at work, to return them to whereever they came from. I come home to find a note on my door from him, apologizing for rutting my grass on the way out. I looked out the back, and there was fresh-laid sod neatly flushed in where he had rutted the grass. I bought him a case of beer as a thank-you for his honesty and integrity. My neightbors are pretty awesome.

I used to work in animal care, rescuing illegally captured birds, reptiles, and mammals from the exotic pet trade. I've had the pleasure of working in aviaries full of Macaws and other parrots. I can think of no greater hell than having any number of Macaws in my home.

"Come for the legal analysis, stay for the terrible puns." You did it, Devin. You summarized your entire channel and fanbase in one sentence!

One of my favorite spite structure stories is actually that of a giant table and chairs in a livestock pasture. The owner just wanted a lean-to for his stock to get in out of the rain, but the plans were denied multiple times. So he built a massive kitchen table with two chairs instead. Big enough the stock could stand under them and be dry. Totally legal. 😂

My neighbor is the mayor's son. He bought an beautiful old Victorian house for close to 3 Mil. and tore it to the ground. He is also trying to make the other neighbors move out so he can buy their house, tear it down and build a helicopter pad. Yes, in the middle of a neighborhood. My favorite part if this story is how he was married for 15ish years with 4 kids, cheated the entire time and you know how he was caught? Having s*x in the movie theater with his ENTIRE family 2 rows behind them while he had claimed to be at work. The day the divorce was finalized he proposed to his girlfriend on the COURT HOUSE STEPS!!! safe to say EVERYONE hates him

I read about one very lovely spite construction recently. Due to a dispute with a Home Owners Association, a resident built a small structure in his backyard. A bat colony. Where several thousand bats immediately moved in. And because bats are a protected species, the HOA could do nothing about removing the offending structure.

Reminds me of the story from here in the UK where city council members wouldn't approve planning permission for a house to be built on a plot of waste ground in the city, conveniently directly opposite the city council building. Finally the guy gave up and instead applied for and got permission to install a water tank on the land, or at least they assumed it was a water tank, the documents only specified "tank" not what kind, so they were surprised when one day they found an old decommissioned soviet era tank sat on the land, gun pointed directly at the office of the people responsible for planning permission. Cue "you cant have that there!", followed by "yes I can, here's the paperwork you signed to say so" and since its become a point of interest and been repainted to be a work of art.

My family sort of has a spite fence on our property. Basically, the previous resident didn't like the HOA's decision to ban fences in our neighborhood. He called his extended family to erect a fence around the entire property before the HOA could properly submit this new rule on the following Monday. As a result, my family now has the only fenced in backyard on our street and we're perfectly within our rights to maintain that fence. Haha!

On spite fences, here in Sydney some years ago there was a famous case of someone who bought a home with harbourside views - except for a set of 100year old trees on local council land blocking that view. The trees mysteriously all suddenly died - noone could prove it was the buyer so the county lost the court case. But the council decided that the replacement seedlings needed an extremely ugly permanent 7 metre high razor wire protective fence to prevent a recurrence ....

I moved into a new house about a decade ago and my new neighbor greeted me and seemed quite friendly. He was doing some landscaping work and asked me for a small favor and we had a nice chat. He said his old neighbor was a complete A-hole and the two fought constantly like cats and dogs and he was really glad to have someone like me. Well after he had completed his landscaping I saw he had not only redone his yard but a small part of mine as well. He even literately planted a flagpole in my yard. I debated how to handle this. On one hand he really seemed nice and the property he claimed really could have been a honest mistake, on the other hand I worried that this was a sign of things to come and I should put my foot down now. However overall I valued my relationship with my neighbor far more than a little bit of land so I just ignored it. I mean he did genuinely seem nice. Turns out I had the right instinct in this case. He and his family turned out to absolute angels. No one would believe me if I mentioned even a few things they have done for me but lets just say he makes Ned Flanders seem like a bad neighbor. And a bout a year latter he must have realized his earlier mistake because I came home to see that he had moved his flagpole and paid a landscaper to fix the part of my lawn that he had relandscaped to match my lawn.

As a Bay Area resident, it makes me worryingly happy to hear that the Young family finally cashed in on their land the year before the Crocker Mansion burned down.

"Being annoying is not a crime...even though, it definitely should be." 😂 This gets me every time when an attorney says it.

When I moved into my new house, on a new subdivision, there were very few fences in the neighborhood. My wife is a very private person, so we hired a company to put one up. They had just begun when they got a phone call from an unidentified neighbor, saying the fence they were erecting was a style that went against the "legal covenant" attached to the property, specifying what sort of fences are allowed, and they should halt. The contractor told me about the phone call and asked what he ought to do. I told him I had no idea what the neighbor was talking about, so just finish the job. He did, and its a beautiful fence. In the meantime, I pulled out the mortgage and title to the property, documents we'd signed just a few months before. There was nothing in them about construction covenants, or any stipulations at all. And since then we've never been contacted by any neighbors about it. In fact, the only thing we've heard from the neighbors nearby is that they like the type of fence we chose.

"I don't need a lawyer, i can defend myself in court" is a bit like jumping out of a plane without a parachute because you are sure you can learn to fly on your way down.

When I was a kid our neighbors tried to sue my family under an obscure law that stated it was illegal to keep a animal for slaughter in a basement with the intent to eat it. They just didn't like that we had a pet pig that we let sleep in the living room.

I love how he says he's going to need the watchers to be mature and then immediately follows it up with a Viagra joke. 10/10

We had to take our neighbours to court - twice! Once for the ruling and the second time to ENFORCE the ruling because they hadn't complied within the mandated timeframe. All because the huge branches their trees were dropping on our house and yard were damaging our roof and endangering our safety, and they refused to do anything about it.

My sister had to deal with property disputes when she wanted to install a fence around her yard that required the removal of a boulder half on her neighbors yard. However, it hilariously backfired when it was determined that her property extended ~6 feet into "their" yard.

My family recently had to replace a broken section of fence we share with our neighbors, we simply informed them we wanted to do so, and they gave their consent while agreeing to pay about 35% of the costs. No fuss, just quick and easy

I find it endlessly amusing that "spite structures" are a thing and hearing "malicious erections" while typing this just makes it all so much better lmao

Once had a local municipality attempt to fine me for storing cars in my driveway under a "junk vehicle ordinance." Rather than use the State code definition of a junk vehicle or a very similar method used by insurance companies to determine a totaled vehicle, they depended upon use of registration and inspection. Which might have worked, if they had in fact used either factor in the ordinance itself. Neither word was even mentioned in the ordinance, a fact that I pointed out to the local Magistrate each time the municipality attempted to fine me. After accumulating five not guilty verdicts and a sixth citation, I met with the chief of police, and asked him how the borough wanted to proceed. I told him that if I won again, the next paperwork we'd exchange would be from my lawyer in the form of a suit at $50,000 for each not guilty verdict, and it would be delivered by the Sheriff's office. He said he would confer with his bosses, and I never heard another thing about it.

I live in a block of flats in the UK and my neighbour complained that "my laugh was too loud" and broke Local Noise Laws... Tried opening criminal proceedings after the police refused to do anything... Apparently, as he soon discovered, "a laugh is a reasonable reaction that does not reasonably breach noise law of ******!"

Anyone who has worked with, or owned, macaws would see that Tarantino has a hell of a point. They reach 110 decibels without breaking a sweat and go a tit for hours.

One day right after I bought my home, and before moving in, my dad, sister and I went to the house. As we arrived my sister noticed the neighbor had a flower garden that obviously extended into my yard. My sister and I started to discuss what I should do about informing my neighbor that was now my property. My dad said to us, “I think you two should shut up, it’s the best looking part of the yard.” We all laughed. I never did say a word to the nice lady next door about her flower garden crossing onto my property. We lived for many years without any conflict. She was a truly nice lady that sometimes baked brownies and brought them over to share. I’m glad I never mentioned anything about her flower garden.

I knew of a woman in Salem, Mass that owned a home. The HOA got upset because she painted the ceiling of her front porch blue. The HOA said the color was incorrect for the year the house was built and she had to repaint it. Now, to seethe color you had to be standing ON the porch (it couldn't be seen from the street at all.) So, in the best act of retaliation I have ever heard of, she repainted not only the porch ceiling but the entire house, trim, window panes, front door, and steps in a paint that was practically pumpkin orange. It was historically accurate as it was based on an iron oxide paint that was used at the time.

Paying inordinate amounts of money to lawyers > Occasionally compromising and getting along with your neighbors

Easements are always fun, my grandpa was a lineman for Northern States Power and they always had trouble doing maintenance work in one of the wealthier cities nearby. The homeowners never wanted to let them have access to their back yards or trim up any trees that were growing in to their power lines. That is until a storm comes through an knocks out everyone's power.

I worked for my local GIS department for a few years. The biggest issue we saw with land borders is that we can rarely be certain exactly where they are. Surveys drawn in the 1800s, natural landmarks changing, and better technology to survey with actually change the lines slightly. I was tasked with re-drawing the lines for the whole county. I usually wouldn’t change the lines much if it was too much trouble, for this exact reason. At a certain point, it matters more how people are actually using the land today, not the best math of a man in 1929 with a compass and a can-do attitude. Edit: this is why the maps you find online for your property are not legally binding.

An old neighbour poisoned a 100+-year-old tree in my family's backyard because he didn't like the roots growing onto his property. We told him he could just cut the roots because they were small enough and far enough away from the tree for the tree to be fine. He instead opted to poison our tree (we had other trees, but you know like trees are kinda big and dangerous when they die). Conversely, our neighbours on the other side had a spaghetti squash plant that grew through the fence, and we asked them if they wanted the squash, and they just let us have it every year. Our garden beds were on opposite sides of the fence so we just basically decided that if the plant grew through the fence, the side the produce was on meant it was yours.

Literally just got done with a neighbor dispute when this was posted. Wish I had known a giant middle finger was an option

My family built a spite fence, you could call it, let me know what you think. We had obnoxious rich neighbors who would always bitch when our front lawn got a little long. (My mother was a single mom raising two young boys who was working full time and in graduate school full time when I was young, and the grass was often not her top priority.) So there was a history and tension, mainly on their side with them hating us. They would also drag their lawn debris, garbage, and recycling out to the front of OUR HOUSE next door instead of their own so they could keep their front yard looking pretty and make sure they had an extra parking space. Anyhow, years ago they built this humongous third story addition which at the time towered over anything else on the street and was gaudy and obnoxious (& unnecessary for the 2 people living there at the time.) Next, they added in an outdoor shower in a small corridor along the side of their house. The way they built it though, the door was a couple inches over the property line into our yard. They would open the door up and when opened the door would extend FIVE FEET into our yard, and they would use this thing frequently as we lived near the beach. It really did bother us greatly. My mom called after less then a week had passed and had a company come and put a fence up along the property line. It was a six foot solid wooden fence that completely, 100% blocked the door of the outdoor shower from entrance or exit. To this day I find it hilarious that my mom did that. She was not in the wrong or being malicious, she was merely preventing herself from getting taken advantage of by our upper class, retired pompous ass neighbors who thought she deserved less respect and consideration than anyone else due to her being a divorced single mom with, in their opinion, neglected property to begin with. It isn't like my mom owns a trailer, it is a half a million dollar home, the lawn just gets tall. Anyhow, if anyone reads this tome I just typed let me know if you think she was in the right or wrong.

I love the skinny house type spite houses. Firstly, I love tall narrow houses in any context, and secondly, the local history of a spite house is hilarious. I mean, if it isn't properly habitable that's one thing, but just being shoved into weird small property boundaries is amazing.

My father had bought a lake in Colorado years ago . The only access was through a farmers dirt road . The same farmer was also the seller. After selling the lake to my dad the farmer chose to dig up the road making access impossible. When he asked the farmer about it the farmer basically said " too bad " but I'll buy it back from you for xxxx which was about 30 percentless than he had paid. He obviously hadn't heard of my father and how vindictive he can be. Not only did he sue , he also found out that the farmer had been pulling this on people for years. In the end my dad not only got the access to his lake but also all attorneys fees and court costs. He put more salt in the wound by sharing the information with the past victims of the deplorable scam.

Another interesting example of spite sculptures: After the German far-right politician Björn Höcke complained about the holocaust memorial in Berlin, a group of artists erected a replica thereof on a plot of land they rented next to his house.

Favorite find as I searched online filings was a case in West Des Moines, IA. It was a neighbor dispute over kids trespassing on someone’s property. Both sides were super petty. They went through several lawyers and even went to trial with lawyers. There were over 100 exhibits and it went on for several days. The plaintiffs won and the judge awarded $1 in damages, and each side had to pay their own attorney’s fees.

My neighbors (likely) burned down their barn to commit insurance fraud. They replaced it with a better one, built it against code (i know this for a fact), and caused water to flood our property. They made our leech field flood and ruin some of our crops. Since a leech field is human waste, we could get in trouble with the EPA. They also burn trash in their outdoor furnace which causes burning trash smoke to flood the neighborhood. It makes our house smell like burning trash. My parents have not only spent time and money excavating our property to combat the flooding, but they’ve helped these neighbors over the years with excavating and putting in that furnace. Their tools are literally in their house holding up the support beams, keeping the neighbor’s house up. My parents don’t want to take legal action because they can’t afford a lawyer, and they want to be “good neighbors”. They did get an inspector to come and look and he thinks we would have a valid case. Neighbors can suck.

A friend's mom got in trouble with her HOA for a very 'Martha Stewart' paint pallete without approval. They demanded she repaint. She painted the whole-ass house black, top to bottom.

Robert Frost was being ironic when he wrote "Good fences make good neighbors." The fence in the poem is clearly described as pointless and waste of time for both neighbors. He was poking fun at the neighbor who insisted they repair an old stone wall every year in the woods, even though they had no animals and the wall served absolutely no purpose. A fitting poem to reference given the video's subject.

Several years ago I just start my police training (day 2 or 3) when I woman came to the our station to complain about trespassers. Knowing I maybe out of my element I called over a senior officer on desk duty for surgery for help. Turns out utility workers were coming to her back yard to read her meter. Even that early in my career I understood utility company would need to send people into backyards to read meters. We try to explain this to the woman would went on a long rant about property lines. And on that day I realize this would be the bulk of my police career so far.

So Minnie locked off and blocked off the driveway with an electronic gate only her family had access to, but the old man was found in contempt for narrowing the driveway?!

I happened to have a class fairly recently on Medieval cities, and one of the documents I had to read happened to include a law against Spite erection, specifically stating that landowners had the right to build structures that block the view of their own property from their neighbors (unless said neighbor happened to have, in writing, a right to that view)

“She won and I hope she spends every dollar on chemotherapy” damn that is savage

I have worked directly with a Land Surveyor for almost 20 years. The most common job we get is neighbors fighting over property lines. Though I am surprised you didn’t mention adverse possession which says an object or line has been there for so long it might as well now be the line.

When my wife was in college her neighbor (who lived in the apartment 3doors down the hall) complained about "a suspicios looking man entering and exiting" which was me, and actually attempted to have her and her two roomates evicted over it

One of the coolest spite structures that I've heard about was a Rancher who wanted to create a structure for his horses to keep them out of the Sun on one of his pastures. The local government did not allow it. So instead he made a gigantic dinner table and chairs complete with giant size plates and silverware on the top of the table and called it a sculpture which was more than high enough for his horses to shelter under.

I once worked for a builder. One time we built a spite shed on an acreage for a guy who was in a spat with his neighbour. The story was that when the neighbour found out the shed was going to block his view of the surrounding hills, he went straight to court for an injunction instead of actually walking over and asking about it. The guy we were working for said he would have gladly put it somewhere else so as to not block the neighbour's view had the neighbour asked, but decided "f him" once he saw the summons.

""Stay for the terrible puns." What terrible puns? That pun was perfection.

Claim: Hostile Architecture used against the homeless counts as Malicious Erections, and needs to be taken down as they are also nuisances to the public

I"ve always heard it phrased "Anybody who represents themself has a fool for a client." I think it's a little bit punchier that way, because sometimes it takes people a second.

I work in a corporate IT department and run a lot of the new hire orientation talks with regards to computer usage policies. My briefings always end with, "Do bad thing and bad things will happen. Do illegal things and legal things will happen. Please, don''t make us give money to lawyers, no one wants that. Any questions?"

SPEAKING OF SPITE STRUCTURES, there's a rumor going around that ham radio towers can be threatened to be built in negotiations with home owner associations regarding home owner association violations, due to home owner associations having less legal authority than the FCC, and the FCC giving legal support to anyone seeking to build a ham radio tower on their own property. How true is this?

I used to have a blue throated macaw, and that one that you showed there was actually *VERY* quiet. They can let out an ear piercing scream. Mine also called people assholes all the time.

My neighbors tried to say my driveway wasn’t a driveway so they built a fence right on the property line to try to get us to not park there. Jokes on them, my car still fits just fine

As an ex-pub landlord, I can attest to the “coming to the nuisance” defence in the uk. It’s not uncommon for someone to move in near a pub, knowing it’s a public entertainment venue, and complain to get the business shut down for their peace and quite. Us landlords (most of us, not the minority of idiots) work with the local community (many of whom are our customers) to make sure we respect and don’t undermine the atmosphere and relative tranquility the community around us deserves. That being said, I have myself had someone move in nearby to one of my pubs who claimed he was “noise sensitive”. He wanted the local pubs (he moved in to a property in between my pub and another just 100 yards away) to have their licenses curtailed. He even met with a local councillor. His request was rejected because he knew exactly where he was moving to, and what activity went on there, and before he moved in there were no complaints. Some people are just *&@%s, I guess. But yay for the “coming to the nuisance” defence. He basically wanted the whole community he’d just moved to to change according to his whims, and didn’t care about how the community felt - which was something they made very clear to him (in non-threatening ways, don’t worry. But a lot of F-bombs from members of the community did get served).

My grandad built a spite statue. His neighbors built an atrocious steel fence to block out deer. He offered to pay for a more elegant fence, but they declined. So he bought a 17 foot tall goose statue, put it on an industrial turntable, and draped it in Christmas lights. For the next five years, every morning he would go outside and "flip the bird" to his neighbors until they moved.

In regards to spite fences, a related story I've heard before was about a man who got around the height limit restriction on a fence he wantend built between him and a neighbor by paying to have a 4ft high embankment built on that side of his property first. This allowed him to reach an effective height of 14ft while still technically staying within the 10ft limit on the fence itself.

If being annoying was a crime, my sibling would be the most wanted criminal in existence 😂

My previous upstairs neighbors tied their vents to mine during a remodel to save money without my knowledge. My friend is a cancer survivor, moved in with me, and opted for medical marijuana versus pain killers. The neighbors complained about the smell. It's their fault... luckily they are gone!

My rural community is currently undergoing intense gentrification. And as a property owner, I've been toeing the exact edge of every current bylaw on the books. my next door neighbours are totally on board. the folks who just built a multi-million dollar summer home across the way? not so much.

Hearing stories like this makes me so glad I'm lucky to have the neighbors I have. No one really cares what everyone else is doing unless it wind up being dangerous. Which, honestly, that's only happened once. One guy on my street got in trouble for having one of those tent like garage things you seen advertised sometimes. It wasn't the tent thing that we had a problem with, it was that it wasn't anchored to the ground! So if we had a big wind there's a good chance the thing would blow down and smash up a person. We were even concerned it would get blown over with him inside and he'd get hurt or killed! He anchored it and nothing has happened since. There's a sort of unspoken rule that all the kids can play on all the lawns on the street and no one says anything, except that one guy but the kids know to stay away from his house. It's nice when everyone leaves everyone else alone.

I work at a dog treat manufacturer. We had to move our business because of zoning laws, so we did. We moved into an Industrial 1 factory complex and were... I wanna say the second people to move into the complex. This complex was designed to be used for heavy industry... things like glass making and stuff like that. So it was very annoying when we had a yoga studio open up literally next door to us. An entire factory complex... an Industrial 1 factory complex... and they move next door to us. And then start complaining about the smell, because the owners and most of their clientele are vegan. They called us like, once a week about it. Complained frequently to the factory owner about it. At one point they even called the cops to say we were using a dead body for the treats and then called the EPA on us accusing us of dumping toxic material. I do not miss her.

Serious question, which I was reminded of during the second case that ended with a judge's comment of "The heart of this case is who's richer than who, I guess..." - have you ever been afraid that proper legal representation - or even legal representation at all - has become gentrified?

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Property lines & boundary disputes 4:40 - Chapter 2 - Easements 8:35 - Chapter 3 - Nuisance law 11:05 - Chapter 4 - Spite (fences, houses and more !) 18:10 - End roll ads

The _second_ most famous spite fence might be the one at old Shibe Park in Philadelphia, former home of the Athletics baseball team. When the stadium was built in 1909 it sat across North 20th Street from a row of houses, who's owners could watch games for free from beyond the short right field fence, a situation similar to Wrigley Field in Chicago. For the first couple of decades the A's had no issues with this arrangement, as the top team in the American League (the Yankees before the Yankees, so to speak) they never had trouble drawing crowds. (At their very first game at Shibe they had to _turn away_ thousands of would-be-paying fans!) But as their star players retired, the Great Depression hit and attendance fell, suddenly things changed and the A's saw the people watching from across 20th Street as a threat to their bottom line. So in 1935, the team built an ugly, corrugated, 34-foot metal wall all the way across right field, permanently blocking the view of the field from the homes. It wound up backfiring in a big way: as it turned out "Connie Mack's spite fence", named for the long-time A's manager (though it was actually owner Ben Shibe's idea), would permanently damage the team's relationship with the neighborhood; and after 20 more seasons of mediocre-at-best baseball in front of dismal crowds, the A's finally packed up and moved to Kansas City in 1954, then again to Oakland in 1968, where they remain to this day (for now at least). The stadium itself lived on, being used by the National League's Phillies until 1970, finally being torn down in 1976 and eventually being replaced with a church. In my opinion the ultimate irony is that those very same houses who's view was blocked by the spite fence are still standing today, now having outlived Shibe Park and the Philadelphia Athletics by over a half-century.

When I lived in New Orleans it seemed that every year a new resident of The Cabildo would complain to the local media or in court about the street performers causing a public nuisance. There was a years long waiting list to get a condo in The Cabildo…

4:23 I've always liked this version better: "He who represents himself has a fool for a client!"

"The most avian legal review on the internets" is a fantastic little gem hiding in the description... And the bit between 10:50-11:55 was wonderfully hilarious!

I had wonderfull neighbors on three of four orthogonal sides of my childhood house (Left, Right, and Front) and the neighbors behind us where an absolute nightmare. They where horrible. Every weekend they would place large speakers on their porch and play this ear splitting traditional Mexican music (think Mexican hat dance) that would reverberate throughout the neighborhood. But neither my family, nor any other neighbors lodged any complaints… Now, First a little backstory: growing up Me and my grandfather would engineer and build various projects, of all sizes, variants and complexity. One of which was a fort. It was a pine construction of std lumber, about 18’ off the ground with four standoff’s with an access ladder on one side, which was retractable. One week we received two letters, one from an attorneys office giving notice of the neighbors filing for an injunction with the town to have the fort removed because it was to close to their property line, the other was from the town itself essentially scheduling a visit from an inspector contracted by the town. The problem they had was that we built it to to both building and property codes, so to make a long story short the fort stayed. But they where out for blood now. We received numerous additional complaints against our deck, our sheds, the pool, etc. one of which was that our sheds where ALSO to close to their property line. The current statute stated all structures of this type where supposed to be 4’ minimum off the property line… when the sheds where built (back in the 70’s) my grandparents had different neighbors in the back, with whom they where very close with and that neighbor actually assisted my grandfather in building the sheds. In short they where about 3’ off the property line, so we had to jack the sheds up and place them on steel rollers to roll them forward to comply with the 48” to the fence line… Here’s where it becomes brilliant though, during all of this apparently every official just assumed the fence line was the defined property line and a surveyor was never tasked with explicitly verifying/defining this… when my grandfather moved the sheds, finally a surveyor WAS contracted and it turned out the fence line encroached onto OUR property by about 1.5’, since originally the previous neighbors which I spoke about had another fence surrounding their yard, which the new residents removed, and it was discovered the deck they erected for their pool was actually to close to OUR property line… something which was much more difficult to move than a couple of sheds… So they made a compromise. My grandparents said they won’t push for any action with any set time period so long as you guys stop with the music blaring all the time and refrain from anymore spiteful claims… they agreed and I don’t recall us having any more issues. The guy did eventually have to modify/move his pool deck but I recall him doing it at a much later date.

As a surveyor, in fact a County Surveyor, I loved this and appreciated your educating people on this.

I had to pause on the half-garage pic and just laugh.

I love how they blurred the bird’s beak as if we can read beaks 😂

11:42 HAHAHA GREAT ONE... ALthough I would prefer to consult my doctor.....

My aunt and uncle with their 14 children had a grumpy old man living next door that was an absolute a-hole to everyone in the neighborhood, even to the point of calling the cops on kids and spreading rumors (not the everyday kind that probably aren't illegal, serious claims like someone was molesting a kid or something). They had a tree growing in their front yard in the corner near this neighbor's plot, one year it died (or got struck by lightning or something) but for some reason instead of taking down the entire thing they just took all the branches off and left the trunk in place. For years he'd complained about it, so one Halloween their eldest son (#3 in our small nation of cousins) decorated the tree as an effigy of that grumpy old man. He was pissed off enough about it that he came out and wrecked it, and summarily got cited for tresspass and vandalism because another neighbor saw him doing it and thought it'd be poetic justice.

“ ‘…I hope she spends every dollar on chemotherapy’, Jesus!” You know the insult’s bad when the lawyer is shocked

I’ve heard a story about someone in my town painting brightly colored polka dots on one side of their house and not putting up any fences or trees to cover it so that the neighbor on that side of their house saw obnoxiously color dots every time they looked out the window, I’ve also heard of neighbors who get into arguments about their holiday decorations because one house will be covered with blinking lights and Santa’s and snowmen that all light up super bright and blink enough to need a seizure warning and all the surrounding houses will have a snowman or reindeer in the yards or just a couple strings of twinkle lights that aren’t too bright and don’t blink, so they get into arguments over what decorations are festive and what ones are unsafe.

I live in a small town in Australia, working in real estate law for a little bit. Our lecturer told us the story of a set of houses in the rich part of town that have roofs that are permanently encroaching upon each other as the houses were stepped down a hill. From what I've heard, they still haven't resolved or resurveyed the property lines, the new owners just deal with it. Which is kind of refreshing.

I love the fact that the last guy didn’t have to remove his giant middle finger sculpture!! The system does work! (Sometimes)

Here's a little property dispute from my own life: in my childhood home, our back door neighbor was quite handy and offered to install our shared fence himself. Great, right? Well he moved the property markers several feet, making his own yard larger and ours smaller. We had just hand sprinklers installed, then low and behold once the fence was up he had some sprinklers watering his yard on our timer. It was an awkward and embarrassing situation, I believe the only resolution we got was that he paid to have the sprinkler line adjusted so it was on our side of the fence.

Grateful for good neighbors. None of them have snitched on me to the HOA about the catio I built 🤣

As I watched the beginning of this video, I couldn't help but think of a house I drive by on my way to work every day. Imagine my surprise when, at the end of the video, I saw that same house (and middle finger) showcased. It's a small and spiteful world we live in, a good sense of humor goes a long way! Shout out to VT viewers out there.

I lived on a farm during a drought, and my neighbours' neighbour had a big concrete water tank, less than 10% of which encroached onto his other neighbours property. Couldn't have been more than two square meters out of several hundred acres. The bastard came and punctured a hole in the tank in his 10%

Objection! "Mending Wall," the Robert Frost poem containing the good fences line mentioned, is actually specifically about how walls create negative boundaries between people, rather than building trust or good relationships (even if the act of construction can theoretically be a bonding moment).

OBJECTION "Yes you actually get 14 free meals" No you don't. You get discounts on each meal over a period of time that adds up to free meals. It's not getting a free meal.

Had neighbors that were drug dealers/makers that threatened to beat me up when I was 13 because I was singing the Spectacular Spider-Man theme song. 2 months later, they burned their duplex down. 2 more months later, another arson.

someone where I lived moved in near a shooting range out in the country that had been there for over 50 years, and then started bringing complaints that they could hear gunfire during the day. the local township basically just told them that they had to deal with it, since the shooting range had been there for much longer and there's no way they wouldn't have known about it before moving in.

"You wouldn't think a driveway could be a source of conflict" It's never *not* been a source of conflict for me after i started living in town. For half the year, we have alternate side parking so if possible, you want a driveway. The first place i stayed, there was an argument about who could use the driveway for the length of time i wouldn't be in the state. I could either take my car and the other person i was going with would be fined for their car not moving for a few days, or i could get use of the driveway and my roommate would have to alternate park for those few days. I won that one. I had a landlord that had a massive 2 car garage with room to spare that we weren't supposed to use (it was storage for large things they sold at estate sales). Which meant they had to be able to access it at any time without giving us enough notice to get home and move our cars when we were on campus. Same landlord, different house, except it was boats instead of estate items. When i stopped renting and bought a house, there was really only one house in my price range that had a garage/driveway. But it's a shared garage (property line directly down the middle) and the other property is rented (they've been there for years, much longer than i). But the neighbors/their guests constantly blocked the driveway or parked on my side so i could not get in or out. After about a year of my reminding them that i needed to be able to *go* places, they stopped doing so for the most part. For the most part. Sometimes they park their vehicles so close to the actual entrance that i would be scraping paint trying to get out. Only once did i end up calling the cops because i had no way to get them to move the vehicle in the way (they didn't answer the door for me or the cop, but answered their phone when a reverse search was done on the plate) and i was not going to get the vehicle towed without doing my due diligence first.

Just a friendly reminder that HelloFresh is spending a fortune on union busting and doesn't deserve your money

Knowing that a disabled cancer patient friend of mine is currently being harassed extensively and potentially forced out of her home for being a 'nuisance' by... not mowing her lawn after having a major abdominal surgery... shit's a piss off lol.

I honestly can’t imagine fighting with my neighbours like that, we literally share food and stuff so often that we have “mystery” dishes where we don’t know which house they came from originally.

Even when you like your neighbors, there are times when getting a variance from the city can be a real chore. Both my neighbors and I wanted an 8 foot fence for a section between our houses where the windows kind of looked from one house into the other. The city ordnance generally limiting us to a 6 foot high fence was insufficient because the houses are both raised up about 2 feet from ground level, creating only an effective 4 foot fence of visual separation. In order to get the variance, we had to pay a few hundred dollars to apply for the variance, a couple hundred more to have the city send a letter to both us and the neighbors asking if we approved, a little bit more for a notary public who needed to witness our responses, then a "processing fee" that somehow was not the same as the application fee. We're happy with the end result, but the process of getting a very short section of 8 ft. high fence took 5 months, and cost just under a thousand bucks.

I always heard the saying as "A man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client." And your honor... I am that fool!

Love the Crocker spite fence story. I had a client who sold his San Francisco house right before the '89 quake!

My parents had something like this happen. The small house next door got bought up and a massive mcmansion put in its place. Of course the mcmansion doesn’t really fit, is raised well off its foundations so the lights & windows stare down directly into my parent’s house, and worst of all they kept putting boards on our fence so it would look like “nicer” (this was worst because it would have inevitably resulted in internal rot of the fence, a fence we’d just replaced a year prior). I really wish I’d known more about these city ordinances at the time, because otherwise we’d probably have filed some official complaints.

I refuse to do anything against my neighbors just trying to enjoy their lives, because I've been on the other end of an HOA witch-hunt but if they decided to stop working on motorcycles and picked up a quieter hobby boy howdy my career as a voice over artist and broadcaster would be so much better and less stressful

I learned about property lines when mom scolded me for picking lemons off our neighbor's side of the tree. It's a big tree that's right on the fence so half of it is on our property and half is on hers, so we should only pick from our side. The little old lady next door was very nice and probably wouldn't have minded, but it was good manners nonetheless.

Had a neighbor that drove his truck onto our property then dumped his old motor oil out right next to our well, fixed the issue by placing extremely large heavy rocks along property line.

We had neighbors who were running a crack house. It was an unforgettable night when an ATF team arrived in full tactical gear and kicked their door down. They were led out in handcuffs. Their house was in such deplorable condition (they were renting but the landlord lived in another state and didn’t care) that it was torn down and a new house built in its place. Peace and quiet was restored to the neighborhood once again. ❤️