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Imagine living next to a neighbor who is trying to sell his house. If the neighbor wanted to make it look like his yard was bigger than it really was by pretending that part of your yard is actually his yard, would you be okay with that or upset?

In this story, one family is in this situation, and the dad knows that there could be big problems down the road if the buyers think the property line is in a different place than where it really is.

He tries to clearly mark the property line, but when that doesn’t work, he comes up with another creative way to get the neighbor to back off.

This time, it actually works.

Keep reading for all the details.

Dishonest neighbor finds himself unable to sell his house

Years ago my neighbor was trying to sell his house during the fall and he was selling it for incredibly more than it was worth…. almost six figures higher.

To make the property seem worth that figure he would wake up early in the morning and take a leaf blower and blow the leaves past his front lawn into our backyard and then some making it seem like his “front yard” went all the way to our driveway and also included our beautiful tree older than all the homes in the area combined.

We never had a backyard fence because his kids were my age and we’d all play on the swing attached to that tree together we were all cool.

It’s not fair for potential buyers to be misled about where the property line is.

My dad wasn’t too keen on this because he didn’t want to get in a property dispute with the new owner so he found the official property lines and guess what?

His “front lawn” ended about 3 feet from his house.

So my dad bought some little stakes with orange ribbon and hammered them into the ground to show where the actual property line was.

The neighbor asked for a favor.

Next day they were gone, thrown into the woods that surround us.

My dad fetched them, nailed them back in and knocked on the door asking him to cut the nonsense.

Next day gone once again with a passive aggressive note on our door (my dad is a rather intimidating guy when frustrated and he was apparently to scared to be confrontational) saying we need to just be cool with it and let him do his scam so he can sell the house.

Dad was determined, but so was the neighbor.

My dad then decided to up the ante and went to a hardware store and bought 4 12 ft iron rods, took out his ladder, and used the backside of an axe to nail it about 8-9 ft INTO THE GROUND and then watered the grass or did something so it couldn’t just be yanked right out.

So now there were just four ugly rods poking out of the lawn with bright orange ribbon tied to the top.

My family goes away for a weekend came back Monday and all four are gone tossed into the woods and our backyard in those four spots are trashed with little holes from when he spent hopefully a long time digging those bad bois up.

Obviously my dad was furious and he just silently stood there for about 20 minutes with a burning rage deep inside and our entire family could him scheming.

He brought back something even bigger and heavier.

He turned around hopped back in the car and disappeared for hours only to return with a tow truck coming behind him.

He popped over to a junkyard, found essentially a FRAME of a car and bought it for its worth in metal, and then had it SHIPPED to his backyard which he plopped just before the property line.

My dad walked into our house like a great conqueror saying “let’s see him throw THAT into the woods”

They finally reached an agreement.

The neighbor showed up later that afternoon followed by prospective buyers who just stood him his driveway gawking at the junker four feet from the house.

He tried to brush it off and as soon as they left he came over just yelling about how he was going to call the cops on us and home association for depreciating the value of his property.

To which my dad said sure go ahead and I’ll let them know about what you’ve been pulling for the past few weeks.

Eventually they came to the agreement that the junker would leave the yard if he PAID to have it removed and shipped away and ever since then he stopped messing with the yard and stopped messing with the leaves.

Wow! The neighbor clearly wasn’t thinking about the consequences of his actions for the next door neighbors when new buyers eventually moved in.

Good for the dad for not giving up and finding a creative way to end the neighbor’s scam!

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person expected it to end differently.

Another person shares how they got revenge on a neighbor.

This is good advice.

Here’s the bright side.

It might be time to put up a fence.

The neighbor’s scam was a really bad idea. I’m glad OP’s dad didn’t let him get away with it. But I’m curious if the neighbor was able to actually sell his house for anywhere close to the asking price.