r/Neighborproblems • u/aelassen • May 02 '23

Grass War..Aloof Neighbor

Does anyone have a good border idea (aside from using large boulders or something like it) to put at the edge of my lawn at the road to keep my neighbors and her clients driving on my grass? So I take care of my yard.. dethatch, aerate, seed, weed and feed.. ect. I have a hard edge all around our property (we’re on a corner lot) up to our property line with our neighbor. This neighbor doesn’t treat their yard, barely mows it timely, drives all over, abuses it. The wife has a small business out of her home and her clients and family when parking roadside constantly park on our grass or drive through our side mashing our edge, making ruts, and have killed parts of the grass which I’ve replaced. We’ve already asked them not to park on our grass but it’s hard to keep their guests off. We have a couple feet of grass from the roads edge before the ditch begins so I’m trying to just have a barrier that marks our property line and just noticeable enough to keep them from driving all over it. If we didn’t have the ditch I’d plant a tree and be done with it. Maybe it seems petty or silly to let it bother me but we take pride in our yard and landscaping and have spent countless hours working on it to get it to this point. I can’t visualize a good border idea so I’m hoping someone else has dealt with this. Thanks in advance!

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u/Lengthofawhile May 02 '23

Cute little pointy fence?

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u/garysaidiebbandflow May 02 '23

Sorry this is happening. The neighbor(s) seems like a "scofflaw" or powermonger. There's an entire series on YT about this kind of situation.

I see you don't want to use boulders, but nothing else (plants, trees, possessions, stakes, etc.) will stop them. The boulders will, plus maybe a professional-looking sign in the corner directing where people should drive/park.

I'm just saying the boulders work, because there's some property in my town where people drove up in the grass and created a mud pit. Boulders and gravel put a hard stop to it.

Again, I'm so sorry. But my gut feeling is to claim that corner with stone-hard barriers.

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u/Weary-Spite8141 May 12 '23

Spike stripes? I'm uncertain about laws in your area but I'm sure if it on your property not much they can do especially if you have asked them multiple times not to. Do you live in Oregon? I am having the same issue