Originally Posted by RGG1719

Thanks for the replies trying to assist me. I have read the deed restrictions that state I am responsible to maintain the side yard and that my neighbor has an easement to come into the side yard to maintain his house. It seems to be the consensus that I don't actually own all the land in the side yard, but that some of it belongs to my neighbor. That's the part I'm really trying to understand. If my neighbor owns some of that land, what prevents them from planting shrubs or placing anything else on that side of their house. I don't see anything in the deed restrictions that state they can't. Also, what gives me the right to plant hedges on his property right up against his house (I see that throughout my neighborhood).