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What would you do if you knew exactly where your property line was and you knew your neighbor knew exactly where the property line was, but your neighbor kept trespassing?

In this story, one homeowner is dealing with this exact situation, and it’s very frustrating. It has been an issue for a while, but it got worse recently when the neighbor was actually stealing!

The homeowner isn’t sure what to do. Keep reading for all the details and to decide how you would handle this situation.

Neighbors keep trespassing. Today they hired laborers to remove large retaining boulders on my property that prevent erosion.

The neighbor behind our home moved in about two years ago.

There’s a large drainage ditch close to the border of our properties that is on their side.

Our property line begins at the top of the drainage ditch where there are about a dozen or more boulders that have been there for decades.

Their house is part of a development (hoa) who is responsible for the general maintenance of the ditch.

How annoying!

I have caught them on our side numerous times.

One occasion she was removing brush that was on our side bc they apparently didn’t like the way it looked.

We spoke to her and told her she couldn’t do that and she acted as if she didn’t know the boundaries so we made it clear where the lines were and let it go.

Since then we have caught her walking on our side of the property multiple times. Not sure why on those occasions tbh as we have privacy trees and could only see that she was on our side not specifically what she was doing.

She’s at it again!

Today she hired laborers to remove and essentially steal (for what purpose is unknown to me) multiple massive boulders from my side of the property line.

These boulders act as a retaining wall for the ditch and are there to prevent erosion.

She was confronted and said again oh she didn’t realize and that she got “permission from the town.”

Both I strongly believe to be lies.

He’s not sure what to do.

She said she would put the boulders back.

What are my options here? She clearly has no respect for the boundary lines and speaking to her hasn’t worked. Can I have her trespassed even though it was her hired workers who technically were on my property and moved the boulders?

I also don’t have proof of prior incidents as I never filed a police report since I was hoping to give her the benefit of the doubt and keep things amicable.

Should I just let her put the boulders back, let it go, and hope she respects the boundaries in the future? Should I contact her development since they are the ones who maintain the ditch and tell them? Advice on what would be my best options.

Can they put up a fence so the neighbor can’t cross the line and add security cameras so they have proof?

Let’s see what Reddit suggests.

This person offers some advice.

Another person would go straight to the police.

Here’s another suggestion.

Seriously! She’s probably lying.

Leave the boulders alone, and stay off your neighbor’s property! Is that too hard to understand?

I’d seriously add cameras and put up a fence. The neighbor is clearly a lying thief.