August 17, 2026 at 1:21 pm

A Neighbor Keeps Mowing Part of Her Lawn—Even After She Explicitly Asked Him to Stop

by Matthew Gilligan

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Some folks out there just don’t understand the meaning of the word NO.

And that fact can present a lot of different challenges to people, depending on the situation.

But let me ask you this: have you ever had to deal with a neighbor who wouldn’t listen to you…after you told them repeatedly not to mow your lawn?

Yeah, that’s a weird one!

That’s what the woman who wrote this story is dealing with and she’s had just about enough of this joker.

Get all the details below and see what you think.

Neighbor keeps mowing my land.

“I (37F) and my husband (40M) have a neighbor who lives down the street from us.

But he is obsessed with mowing a stretch of property that belongs to us.

This piece of land is a hill/bank between me and my actual neighbor (AN). They (AN) are positioned above us and this piece of property runs along the road, my property and theirs.

They’ve tried to tell him…

We have had multiple conversations about this issue of mowing my property because I and my husband want it to grown in and become a little stand of woods to give us some privacy from (AN).

With this piece of property mowed, their house looks right down onto us, we can hear everything they say in their driveway because sound carries downhill easiest, and it would look so much better as a small stand of trees, instead of slick mowed grass.

We planted trees last year and he mowed them down. We’ve called the police once but we didn’t have any no trespassing signs up so they wouldn’t do anything. Husband called last week and that was what the officer told him.

So, we now have one sign up and he decided to mow the corner of our property again this week.

This is so strange…

In his defense as I know this is what he’s going to argue to an officer when he’s confronted, “It wasn’t where I mowed so I didn’t see it” when in all reality the “NO TRESPASSING” sign is staked dead center of the property and is highly visible from the road as you drive by, but not easily visible from the corner/side of the property.

Mowing neighbor does in fact know it’s our property. It feels like attempted land grab on behalf of the actual neighbor up hill. They are friends, so, it could be possible.

So my question is, what would you do about this?

Is there anything I can do other than put up another sign and press charges for trespassing when he inevitably mows it again?

I just don’t fully understand why anyone would come on to someone else’s property and do with said property as they please like it’s theirs. It makes no sense to me! I would never go on to my neighbor’s property and start mowing the way I want it.

I’m at my wits end and I’m ready to press charges just to get my point across because talking to him, telling him and even asking him not to do this keeps getting me nowhere.”

Check out how folks reacted on Reddit.

This person didn’t hold back.

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Another individual weighed in.

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This Reddit user offered some advice.

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Another person shared their thoughts.

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And another reader spoke up.

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This guy just won’t listen!

And it sounds like something nefarious might be going on here, don’t you think?

I sure do!

This is some extremely odd behavior from her neighbor…

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