Neighbors and Pool Installation (LONG)

[adillenal]

Not that it is an option for everyone, but I sure am glad I live out in the country even though I have to drive 11 miles to town. There are no neighbors to complain about anything we do.
Good luck with settling everything.

[tagprod]

I had to re-run an electrical line that went to a transformer on my neighbors side of the fence in his easement. We also had to dig up some bushes next to the transformer. I didn't legally need to compensate him for any of this, but I went out and bout some new bushes and re-planted for him. It seemed like the neighborly thing to do.

I'm not sure how young these "kids" are (30?) but I would be embarassed as a man to conduct myself like this or to allow my wife to act this way. If I have a problem or concern, I would have taken it to your husband and tried to work it out.

[CanuckPool]

I would take the two pineapples and throw it through their windows.

[sevver]

When I worked Construction, I had a lady ask us what we were doing with our dirt, she told us she would like two semi loads and gave us an address and told us to just dump it in the front yard. We thought: cool, we can save the company a few hundred bucks, so we walked down there and looked at it. No one was home, and I doubt you could have fit a wheel barrow between the garage and house, there was also a gate there. We did peek in the back yard and could see no reason for wanting this dirt, and we figured that it was a neighborhood fight or something.

Gotta watch them neighbors, they can get creative. lol

[Simmons99]

sevver - that is funny! It is very hard sometimes - but since we have sent them the letter and the $20 they don't even look at us. Good riddens!

I have a landscape designer coming this afternoon for estimate on a PVC fence and some thorny bushes for that side of the yard.

[joliecharlie]

Keep in mind that ..."what goes around ...comes around" Enjoy your pool and the fast growing shrubbery planted between your home and theirs.

[ivyleager]

I am SO glad I live several acres away from my neighbor. I see "slab" home communities going up more frequently, hardly spitting distance away. I cringe when I see their price tag, hardly cheap. I'll take my older brick ranch, on +3 acres, bordered by Army Corp of Engineering land/water shed anyday. Bought, paid for, done.

When you kill with kindness, sooner or later the other person(s) is reduced to pettiness. When you argue with a lunatic, others watching won't be able to tell the difference. Good luck.

CaryB
Caniac

[Pool_Mike]

Simmons99,

How are things now? I mean w/ the neighbor and all?

Hope all is well.

[Simmons99]

Actually - they hadn't said a word to us since we sent them our "reply" letter........ until yesterday - you must have jinxed us .

We got our new boxer puppy and they saw us outside with her and they came over like there was no problem at all - they didn't complain about anything - and they actually complimented us on the way that the pool looks with the pavers in (I will post the pics later).

DH and I think that they noticed the people in the front of the subdivision who just got started on their pool. Both the people that are having the pool buiot AND their neighbors have had backhoes in their front yards for 4 days - haven't moved and nothing is happening. Our site looks spotless compared to it. I hope they have realized that they were being unreasonable.

Hopefully (assuming no other issues arise), we should be totally complete (landscaping and everything) by next Sunday.

[Jeffski]

To play devil's advocate for a moment you have to realize that it would be extremely frustrating for them to be inconvenienced for your pool. They have every right to tell you exactly what they want done with their property (assuming it was damage caused by you) as long as it's done in a professional manner. They sound like the type of people who just like to whine and complain about everything, and I have no patience for that either.

I just had my lawn reseeded which included my neighbors lawn and fixing his sprinkler heads, and I made sure I didn't bother him with any of it. He will also be getting a bottle of wine when the yard is done.

I was also on the other end of it last year when my neighbor (on the other side) put his pool in. We were and still are great friends and they made sure they didn't inconvenience us as much as possible.