Doing favors for your neighbors is typically a good thing as it can help you to get along with each other and ensure everyone’s lives are easier.

What would you do if you let one neighbor use your driveway for a while, but then the new neighbors who bought his house now demand that they can use it as well?

That is the situation the homeowner in this story is in, so he told the new neighbors to stay off his property or he would charge them with trespassing and now they are very upset.

Check it out.

AITA For not letting my new neighbors use my driveway when I let the previous one?

The reason I am asking is because they were/are in the middle of building a garage which they wont be able to use unless I let them use my driveway.

Not sure if it is relevant but I am 29, the new neighbors are probably in their early 30’s and my previous neighbor was 78.

That was very nice of him.

I allowed my neighbor to use my driveway roughly a year and a half ago to get to his yard to park his car on his back terrace (He had no fence there and my backyard is fenced).

After he asked me, he told me he was having trouble finding a parking spot on our busy street and he was no longer able to walk bigger distances.

I would rather not allow anything like that most of the time but we were always on good terms and well it didn’t really hurt me as I only had one car at the time so didn’t need the extra space he would need to pass my car and get to his terrace.

Just to be clear, from the back of my backyard, in a straight line to the edge of my neighbors house all the way to the sidewalk is mine, there is no right of passage, no shared ownership, its all mine.

It will be nice to have exclusive access to his driveway again.

Around 5 months ago my neighbor moved out and went to live in assisted living.

His daughter put his house up for sale and that’s as much as I know about that, I figured it would go back to how it was.

My grandpa since gifted me his 2 motorcycles which take up roughly the space of a car and my GF is over 5 out of 7 days.

So the situation has changed in terms of space and I utilize the full width of the driveway.

The house was sold 3 months ago.

Anyhow I went on a holiday for about 3 weeks shortly after and I come home to a bunch of cars and machines sitting in my driveway with a bunch of dudes building a garage where my neighbors terrace was.

No reason for anyone to get upset, just look at the property lines and live with it.

It got really heated as I made all the construction guys and their stuff get the hell of off my property.

Later had a huge argument with the neighbors where they claimed they bought the house with the driveway and how half the driveway was theirs.

I told them I had all my paperwork in order but they can call the local council to have them send one of their dudes to measure it.

After that they quickly shifted gear stating they had right of passage because the previous owner had it, I told them I personally allowed him to temporarily use my driveway because of his age and walking issues.

After a lot more cursing I told them I was done talking and the next time I see them park on my driveway I’ll have them towed and report them for trespassing.

Well this was just unnecessary.

I ended up extending my fence out of petty spite essentially blocking in their garage and closing the opening.

They have been over several times trying to get me to agree to give them right of way, offering to purchase part of the driveway and so forth.

My GF has been there since the start and has recently told me I am being a bit of a jerk as the neighbors likely bought the place thinking they had right of way.

AITA?

The neighbors should have done proper research before buying the place to confirm what they had access to.

This is not his fault.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

It was their own fault.

It’s not like these new neighbors are nice.

Yup, this shouldn’t be too difficult.

Good point, they knew the property lines.

He is allowed to give temporary permission.

No good deed goes unpunished.

This homeowner tried to be nice to an old man and now the new neighbors are trying to take advantage.

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