"P" and "J" are the neighbors, him and her respectively
4/18/10 Sunday afternoon, went for bike ride, returned home and noticed a 3’x3’ section of wood missing from stack. (attach picture). P&J having fire, guests in rear deck area.
4/25/10 - Install light fixture purchased from Menards ($50) + time. Turn on for Sunday evening.
4/27/10. Noon- J places (1) grocery store bundle in the missing wood part of the stack- this replaces maybe 20% of what is missing this time. No comment from either P&J. Later that day, P comes over, asks about light. I say I am missing property (wood) and also can not find an axe and rake. So I installed a light as loss prevention. P says the light bothers them and they took the wood (in hopes I will laugh it off and turn off the light) but not axe or rake. I instructed not to take wood without asking. (I explain they are taking expensive wood reserved for indoor use or wet wood and also explain the considerable costs in equipment and time invested in my firewood). I said I will work with them on the light because his admission did not explain other missing items and I still need to protect other property.
4/28/10- I work over the next week to make the fixture less objectionable, going from the original 42w bulb and working down to 4W. This work burns out the ballast, I rewire, and several CLF bulbs malfunction because of compatibility with photocell- as a result the light is on very sporadically. ~$15 spent on different bulbs. Fixture can not be used with original bulb because ballast is destroyed.
4/30/10 P&J have guest in the Evening (P’s sister). Light is off entire evening.
5/4/10 Considering installing privacy fence to protect property – Survey ordered from Survey Services, $7-800 estimated cost.
5/5/10 Go out back to check out a downed box elder. Notice the alley access to the rear of my property is blocked by chain and private property sign. (blocked at P&J rear deck area to the quarry fence, preventing alley access from Chestnut st. P comes out- states the alley area is their “private property” and I am not allowed back there. Also states I need to move some wood from the alley area (along quarry fence) that is directly behind their property. Makes a big deal about they only took a “couple armloads of fire wood” and implies I have so much and it has little value.
I remove the wood over the next couple days.
5/6/10 I call city to inquire about alley issue. Rear light fixture off.
5/7/10 – Receive call and letter from city. They think alley has been vacated but can find no record. Because of this it will still be considered an alley (right of way) until the property owners can prove otherwise via a survey or other land record information. Chain stays up. Letter also states city regulations about lighting, driving on grass etc. (attach letter).
Rear light fixture off.
5/8/10 – Saturday morning. Jim (neighbor to the north) requests help cutting up downed box elder. I help. J comes outside and is cleaning. I bump chain&sign on the way back home and she lays into me to “grow up”. I state they have no right to have the chain there.
She rants on about why did I have the right to stack firewood in the ally on the south end of my property – I replied that the neighbor to the south blocked it first with a fence. She then rants on about the fact that I cleaned trash out of the quarry behind them with out their permission- I stated it’s not their property. I disengaged from the “discussion”. At this point it becomes clear to me that a reasonable discussion with P&J is not possible at this time. Rear light fixture off.
5/8/10 Install shielding on fixture in front of garage, (not a subject of complaint – been there since 1992) in attempt to comply with city lighting regulations.
5/9/10- return home ~5:30 pm from trip to cities. P&J having a fire. I can clearly see the wood in their firepit appears to be very large elm splits characteristic of what is in my stacks. Find a place in the stack with identical wood and it is missing splits (I had just re-stacked this area in the previous day or two. The wood they were burning was large, unlike what you purchase at convenience store or cub foods.
Called police, filed report. J gives my wife dirty looks and llater the word ##### is heard(not sure who it is directed at but there is no one else in the area). P&J observe me talking to police officer. Turned rear light fixture back on with 23W bulb. Installed shielding per city recommendation
5/10/10 Survey services begins survey Monday morning. I purchase 4 camera security system from Sams Club ($588).
Ended up half on their lawn and half in the driveway.
if you win and you wil they will also have to pay all your legal fee's !
