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["J Bailey" <jbmail AT isomedia.com>]

Bad neighbors are universal....

We're in the Pacific NW, and did a bunch of homework to find our place. But 
the one neighbor we share a fenceline with never came to introduce 
themselves or be friendly in any way. They also had run of the place since 
they moved here 8 years ago, since our place had renters for the last 20 
years. I guess they figured renters didn't count, so they mowed & dumped 
trash here, their kids constantly invaded, and they pretty much landscaped 
about 1/4 acre like they owned it. Did the same thing to then then-vacant 
lot on the other side of them. A house got built there and gossip says they 
had a few beefs with that neighbor til they figured something out.

I'm thinking the fact that we're a same sex couple, and don't have any 
penises to pee higher on the corner posts 8- ) that this guy figures he can 
ignore us telling him to knock crap off. We finally took some steps to 
safeguard things better, talked to the local law to make sure we have 
options to press charges, get an anti-harassment order, and even sue, and we 
have enough firepower to cope if they guy goes nuts and comes over the 
fence.

I lived 15 years next to a ghetto in a big city, and stood down armed 
gangsters. This guy can't hold a candle to that & last we heard they are 
planning to sell. One good thing is that our other neighbors like us a lot 
and are keeping an eye on us & the place too. It sucks to deal with it in 
the first place, but there is too much good here to let some inbred 
walmartian run us off.

--Joanna of Seven Trees
www.seventrees.blogspot.com