payback on arsehole neighbors? Update 09/09/20

[ScarletHayes]

Yeah I'm gonna google it here in a second.   Just looks like a really bad typo to me.  

[dunefan]

I would try and use all this as negotiating leverage to get what you really want as opposed to being punitive about it.  They are still your neighbors.

Maybe there is a quid pro quo in all of this.  I had a vaguely similar situation in my old house but a reasonable rational neighbor, so my proposal made sense to him and he did it.

F**k 'em. They don't act like neighbors. Why should he?

You and I don't agree on much but we do here.  However, if they show contrition I would settle for the original plan.  They really were being pricks about this situation though.  They'll probably try to fight this and screw themselves.

[cincydawg]

pyr·rhic1
/ˈpirik/
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adjective

1. (of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.
   

[dunefan]

pyr·rhic1
/ˈpirik/
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adjective

1. (of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.
   

I know the word.  Just never saw it used (I think).

[P1tchblack]

I would try and use all this as negotiating leverage to get what you really want as opposed to being punitive about it.  They are still your neighbors.

Maybe there is a quid pro quo in all of this.  I had a vaguely similar situation in my old house but a reasonable rational neighbor, so my proposal made sense to him and he did it.

F**k 'em. They don't act like neighbors. Why should he?

You and I don't agree on much but we do here.  However, if they show contrition I would settle for the original plan.  They really were being pricks about this situation though.  They'll probably try to fight this and screw themselves.

Well, you know they're going to show contrition, though it may only be for "show".  It's really just a matter of how much hassle TTP wants to create for himself to stick to his neighbor.  I'd probably setting for the original plan, depending on how the neighbor responded to the letter.

[ScarletHayes]

pyr·rhic1
/ˈpirik/
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adjective

1. (of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.
   

I know the word.  Just never saw it used (I think).

I think he did it for me.     Not sure I've ever seen that word used in a sentence before.  Not sure I've ever seen that word, period.  I'm sure I happened across it a few times in my life, but it's just not ringing a bell for me.

[lrrps21]

I mentioned how I would approach this.  He can of course use his approach, fine with me.

I have found in life that getting even, for me, is a hollow victory and sometimes pyrrhic.

[TakeThePoints]

I would try and use all this as negotiating leverage to get what you really want as opposed to being punitive about it.  They are still your neighbors.

Maybe there is a quid pro quo in all of this.  I had a vaguely similar situation in my old house but a reasonable rational neighbor, so my proposal made sense to him and he did it.

That option is already gone.  The work has been done and paid for.  They had their chance to be reasonable and neighborly.  If you would have seen his demeanor when he told me no, you might feel the same way. 
I will offer them the option I mentioned, of them paying for my extra cost and attorney fees, to keep their sewer line.....but that nice piece of property is going to be mine.  It never legally belonged to them anyway.

[Brutus Buckeye]

We need a revenge/practical joke thread.

[Syncro]

That option is already gone.  The work has been done and paid for.  They had their chance to be reasonable and neighborly.  If you would have seen his demeanor when he told me no, you might feel the same way. 
I will offer them the option I mentioned, of them paying for my extra cost and attorney fees, to keep their sewer line.....but that nice piece of property is going to be mine.  It never legally belonged to them anyway.

Good for you. No reason to give anything away for free.

Did they do this work before you bought your property, or did this happen while you were there? I assume before you bought the place...

[TakeThePoints]

That option is already gone.  The work has been done and paid for.  They had their chance to be reasonable and neighborly.  If you would have seen his demeanor when he told me no, you might feel the same way. 
I will offer them the option I mentioned, of them paying for my extra cost and attorney fees, to keep their sewer line.....but that nice piece of property is going to be mine.  It never legally belonged to them anyway.

Good for you.  No reason to give anything away for free.

Did they do this work before you bought your property, or did this happen while you were there?  I assume before you bought the place...

All done before I bought the place.  If they would have merely signed the damn permission, they could have kept both their sewer line and that piece of property.

[Brutus Buckeye]

So their sewer line runs through said piece of property?

[TakeThePoints]

So their sewer line runs through said piece of property?

Don't know.  this is a separate issue all together.  The easement on that property was for a septic.  They never had one installed.  He had no right to put up a fence.

[dkeener67]

I would try and use all this as negotiating leverage to get what you really want as opposed to being punitive about it.  They are still your neighbors.

Maybe there is a quid pro quo in all of this.  I had a vaguely similar situation in my old house but a reasonable rational neighbor, so my proposal made sense to him and he did it.

That option is already gone.  The work has been done and paid for.  They had their chance to be reasonable and neighborly.  If you would have seen his demeanor when he told me no, you might feel the same way. 
I will offer them the option I mentioned, of them paying for my extra cost and attorney fees, to keep their sewer line.....but that nice piece of property is going to be mine.  It never legally belonged to them anyway.

F em. 
Glad I have never had neighbors like that.

[Brutus Buckeye]

What are your plans for the metal structure if you obtain it?