We moved onto E 2nd N St 12 years ago and since then have invested time, sweat, tears and a lot of money restoring our house which was built in 1905.

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And a few months ago we got a new neighbor.

 A lady bought the house next door to us about two months ago and proceeded to hire a man to trespass on our property and cut down shrubs and trees. When I approached him and asked him to stop he called me every derogatory name for women there is. I then approached her and asked her to make him stop, she claimed she was within her right and refused, she also refused to have a licensed  survey done. This man proceeded to destroy 10 flowering privet, that were on my side of my fence, and had been planted to keep our dogs from jumping an existing chainlink fence, all so she could install a fence of her own. Michael and I did the right thing and had our attorney draft a letter asking her to stop trespassing and to hold off on the fence till we could have a survey done ourselves. Fifteen hundred dollars later the survey proved that her landscaper had been four feet over our property line, which was actually four feet past the existing chainlink fence. 

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Her response to us asking her multiple times to stay out of our yard is a forty foot long by seven foot high middle finger in the form of a wooden fence directly beside our very narrow driveway. The fence will not even close, in fact, it’s more of a wall. A Spite Wall, a wall built strictly as revenge for us asking her to please not construct anything or allow workers onto our property. She even put the ugly side on our side, another way for her to basically tell us where we could go with our request. 

She built a wall that will allow anyone to enter into our driveway and be completely unseen from the street. they could break into our cars or our house or take my kids, and never be seen. She has endangered my family as well as lowered our property value and the city’s answer? She’s within her rights, there are no Codes to stop her. Most municipalities don’t allow fences over 3-feet high past the center of the side yard, Morristown does, and because of this we are stuck staring at an ugly wall for as long as we live here and stuck living in fear of our property being destroyed and stuck living next to a woman that is spiteful and vengeful. That’s not what a neighbor should be.