Unless you live in an HOA, you can’t tell your neighbors what to do on their own property unless they’re breaking the law. But if they’re doing something that impacts your property or public property, that’s a different story.

In this story, one homeowner is really annoyed about multiple things one of her neighbors does. From where he stores his boat to the things he parks in the cul-de-sac, she has had it! But she kept her thoughts to herself until recently.

When he attached a sign to a gate, she felt he had gone too far, and she didn’t want to let him keep getting away with all the annoying things he does. Now, she’s thinking about taking action but also wondering if she’s overreacting.

Keep reading for all the details.

WIBTA if I called the city on a neighbor?

We live at the end of a cul-de-sac that terminates with a long fence between our house and our neighbor across the street.

This fence used to be where our neighborhood ended, but in the early 90’s new homes were built and three of them back to our cul-de-sac along the fence.

One of these newer neighbors built a gate into our cul-de-sac so he could store his boat in his back yard.

It’s always bugged me – the boat is an eyesore and we see it every time we look out our front windows.

The boat isn’t the only thing that bothers this homeowner.

I also feel like he treats our cul-de-sac like his back alley (our town doesn’t have alleys).

He blows his yard waste out the gate, lets guests park there for days at a time, and parked a rented mobile hot tub back there for a couple of days.

I’ve never done anything but grumble about it.

His next-door neighbors say he’s difficult and I’m sure he wouldn’t find proper storage for his boat just because I asked him.

But he went too far, and now she’s thinking about taking action.

I may have reached my breaking point, though.

Yesterday, he posted a “Please do not block this gate” sign on the our side of the gate.

This is our cul-de-sac, our parking, our front yards.

I’m thinking about calling the city, in hopes that expecting a right-of-way for the gate and hopping the curb each time he takes his boat out isn’t allowed. WIBTA if I did?

Call the city. See what happens. If the neighbor gets in trouble and has to stop using the cul-de-sac as an alley, awesome!

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

Here’s some advice.

Another person suggests doing some research.

But this person says to go for it.

And another person votes for calling the city.

Everyone seems to agree that she shouldn’t just let the situation go, but it might be helpful to do some research instead of simply calling the city to complain. Actually, I think that’s the best strategy.

Regardless, she shouldn’t simply ignore the annoying neighbor. He really has gone too far.