Good fences may make good neighbors, but bad ones, however…

When one Michigan family’s cherished lake cabin sat above neighbors who refused to respect boundaries, their yard envy slowly snowballed into full-blown trespassing.

Keep reading for the full story.

Entitled neighbor thinks she has a right to our cabin/land when we are not up there

My family owns a few cabins up in Michigan that we rent out throughout the year.

We have one that is our main one; it’s on a lake perched on a hill, so you can see it from far away.

My siblings and I all have kids now and are all in our 30s, so someone is usually up there from April through November, with maybe a few empty weekends here and there.

These cabin owners don’t think too highly of their neighbors.

Our neighbors on the bottom of the hill suck.

They are a couple from out west who ripped down the two old cottages on the land they bought and built an ugly, modern-looking home that would fit in a large city rather than on a lake.

Their neighbors have been pressuring them to sell off part of their yard, but they’re really keen on keeping it.

The bad thing about building such a large home is the lack of yard space, and they love to cry to us about how their kids have no backyard and how it would be great if we could sell some of our yard to them.

Well, we love our yard.

It’s big enough that we had two weddings there, can have a full family reunion with 100+ people, and still have room to play cornhole or other yard games without being in the way.

So every time this family has asked to purchase a part of it, we say no.

These homeowners think the property lines are pretty clear.

We do have an old chicken wire fence between the properties, and we have grass whereas they have just forest floor around their home.

So it’s really easy to see where the two properties stop.

But that doesn’t prevent their no-good neighbors from crossing them anyway.

Just last weekend, my dad got a call from one of our other neighbors saying they saw the bad neighbor up on the hill walking around our cabin with a few other people she did not recognize.

My dad did what every homeowner would do and called the cops.

He is drinking buddies with a few of them during the warmer months, so they came out to check the place out really quick.

So one day, the cops were called.

Now this part is all from the cop my dad is friends with.

Turns out when they got there, the bad neighbor was walking around with her friends trying to set up a kids’ outdoor winter park in the snow.

The cops asked if she had permission, and she lied to their faces saying she was in the process of closing on the land and that she was ripping the cabin down to turn it into a small snow park for the area.

Finally, these trespassing neighbors faced some consequences.

Well, the cops told her that she was trespassing and that they were called there by the owner, who they were friends with.

I guess the bad neighbor got really quiet and started to try to walk away, but she was ticketed along with her friends for trespassing.

I guess they also laid into the ladies that if a kid got hurt while they were out there illegally, they would be liable for anything.

Then he said he was recommending my family put up a restraining order if she is caught up there again.

This wasn’t this lady’s first time, though.

This isn’t the first time she has been on our property without permission.

We have caught her out on our dock smoking, and she has picked a few of our veggies from the summer garden, both of which are on the other side of the hill from her.

We are going up there once it gets warm enough to install more cameras, as right now we only have ones above the doors and garages.

Some people just think the rules don’t apply to them.

What did Reddit think?

It’s possible the land owners could be liable too in the event of an accident.

This commenter doesn’t have a problem with trespassing if it’s respectful.

Why not let wild animals keep the trespassers away?

Fences aren’t the only way to keep unwanted visitors out.

Some people never learn where the line is until it’s drawn in ink by the law.

This property line wasn’t up for debate.

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