I am experiencing the same problems as most of you have discussed regarding dog mess in my yard. The neighbors have no respect for other peoples property and every time we do improvements to our yard or home some type of vandalism occurs. Whether it is smearing dog poop on the patio, deck , tie walls, benches, in the flower beds and on top of one particular plant.
You do realize you can take photographic evidence, or a video, print them up or burn the video on a dvd, and email the evidence to the dog owner's landlord. Most Landlords will not tolerate such behavior and typically wants to remain on the good side of neighbors and home owner associations.
The Landlord's address is usually easily found via your local property appraiser/tax collector website.
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Me and my family moved into what we assumed was a descent neighborhood almost 2-3 years ago now and made quick friends with our surrounding neighbors. Everything seemed like it was going good until one of our neighbors tipped us off that our next door neighbors were trying to cause trouble for us and that they did it to them when they used to lived next door to them too.
We've caught the neighbors, who like to cause problems, taking pictures of our yard and other neighbors have seen them throwing their beer cans and dog poop in our yard too. They've tried calling code enforcement on us so many times just for nothing to be found wrong in or with our home. We want to catch them in the act so we can get something done about it so all this nonsense can stop, but don't know how or what steps to take to do it. Any advice would be great honestly. Thanks.
I would go to a lawyer and send them a letter saying that if they continue to harass you that you will press charges. That will stop them
Install security cameras.
Or at the very least, purchase some of those cheap "dummy" cameras and make sure they are visible for them to see. Maybe, this will scare them away.
The best solution would be security cameras but if you have to install several this could get expensive.
The next best may be to install security lights and place them in several places so any motion will trip them. This may be enough to stop them from messing around your area.
The court's do not always look favorably on " neighbor disputes" where no damage has been done. Also, you will have to pay court costs and this can get expensive.
Perhaps you can talk with someone from your local church who would intercede and have a discussion with both families.
Have you filed a complaint with the police department?
That would be a start - even if it is minor - they will send someone out to talk to them.
I may be different, but can you try "killing them with kindness"? Make a batch of cookies and take them over and say something like maybe we got off to a bad start. Can we start over?
We had this same situation in a two up/one over town house we rented many years ago. It worked for about a year and then they went crazy again.
Lucky for us, it was when our lease was up and we were able to find another place...but for a while we had peace. We can't fix crazy, but we can fix how we react to it.
Prayers that it gets better!!!
This is a line of 11 bags of neighbors dog feces beginning 2/28 to date 3/10/19. She is apparently performing this gross act in retaliation because I insisted she put her dog on leash, keep off our lawn and clean up the 8 large piles he left beside our home.
No city agency will hold her responsible for her actions and take action to stop it. Can anyone help us?I would look at the answers listed here and see if any of them are helpful. Unfortunately, it sounds like this sort of thing happens to lots of people. :(
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Personally, I would call the police and ask for advice. Perhaps if you got a recording of the littering, they could be ticketed at least. Maybe more since this is becoming harassment now.
Thank you. I hope someone, being city councilman answering me at 10:30pm, will stop this woman. So far as photos and videos, I've had that but no one wanted to see them. Perhaps now they can be useful proof.
You mentioned the police. They came and said they couldn't help. However; one did kick bags 1-6 near her trash can. Too funny how no one wanted to do more.
Again, thank you.