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Originally Posted by HRDave
Hey folks. We need some advice on a neighbor issue in Chitty Chatty. We purchased a corner lot Patio Villa in September and came down early in October to get it set up. Barb & I came home for the holidays & we let our daughter & grandkids come down to our Patio Villa for Christmas as we can’t celebrate together & Meagan is going to take the kids to Sarasota next week to their Dad.
Well our new next door neighbor who’s really sweet, came over to our Villa today & told the kids that she hoped we wouldn’t be mad but she had landscaping done in the “SHARED” flower bed between our houses. She had the landscaper install rock & edging in our original landscaping along the house, garage and driveway by the garage door.
We are currently talking to an established landscaper about doing a large job for us & we have plans for that side of the house and will submit plans to the ARC for approval prior to work commencing. I looked at the Deed restrictions & the only mention of mutual use of the area between our homes is to ensure access for maintenance reasons. I’m not real sure how to proceed without opening a can of worms for others who may have had landscaping done without ARC approval.
Any ideas besides reporting it?
We’ll be back the 27th & planning to talk to our neighbor to see if she understands & that we plan to do something nice on her view of that side of our house. I hope she amenable to it. I just don’t want her to think that this area is shared.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!!
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My opinion-
I do not know you or the neighbor. We had a neighbor who hired a landscaper and they had intruded n to my property. I spoke to the neighbor and he agreed to move it.
The people he hired, refused. Swore at me etc. He is the expert etc etc etc. I called the villages. The person they sent was great. He told the landscaper he was in violation.
He told my neighbor not to pay the landscaper until it passed inspection. The people my neighbor hired did not file a plan as they are supposed to. My neighbor told me
that that landscaper went to jail for something or other.
You are far better off letting someone other than you handle this. Not doing anything
is a choice you can make. The issue will not go away by itself. Common ground?
I do not know what that means. You can easily get a copy of the survey and it will show where your property line is. Common ground? It belongs to someone. You, the neighbor, the Villages?