Neighbor Wars·
DRIVEWAY BOUNDARY WARS
Two neighbors clash over a shared driveway, uncovering a county-recorded boundary that shocks everyone and sparks cops, surveys, and a tense claim to who owns the space.
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A neighbor tried to shut off access to the only practical driveway, and the whole fight turned on a line from county records: the entire driveway was on the poster's property.
According to the poster, the trouble started yesterday when a neighbor told "my fiance and I that we cannot use the, previously stated, shared access driveway." The neighbor, the poster said, called it "her driveway" and then began threatening them if they did not move the cars. The poster and their fiance did not comply: "we didnt move the cars."
There was another driveway, but it wasn't much of an option. The poster said they do have a second way in and out, but the property sits on a fairly steep decline and "a lot of cars will bottom out." In other words, it exists, but using it regularly means scraping the underside of vehicles.
The poster then asked the obvious question: if the neighbors are only leasing the property from a family member, do they actually have any legal standing to stop anyone from using the shared access driveway?
The answer, at least according to the property records the poster later found, was a shock. After checking the property lines, the poster came back with: "the ENTIRE driveway is on my property per county records!!!!"
The dispute did not end there. In a later update, the poster said things escalated again when the neighbors put posts behind the vehicles. The poster responded by calling the cops again: "called the cops again because they put posts behind my vehicles."
By then, the property lines had apparently been made clear to everyone involved. The poster said the neighbors now knew where the boundary ran and had been told to bring in a surveyor if they still had an issue with it, or, in the poster's words, "get a surveyor out if they have issues with it."
What began as a neighbor claiming "her driveway" turned into a records check, a police call, and a very direct argument over where the driveway actually sits.