Something that bothers me in particular to this situation of mowing into the neighbor's property, is how so many people have a lawn service now. Those lawn services (at least in my perspective) don't show any regard for others properties. The yards here where I live are relatively small, yet they all use huge ride on mowers. The lawn service guy is typically a lone male having his own small business, while another might have two other guys there so, again, they created a small business with their own work ethics. I don't know what governs them and speculate they just make up their own rules. The city ordinance allows them to begin at 8 a.m. and in other area's it might be 7:30 a.m.. Here, the services across the street and next door, both sides, all arrive first thing in the morning, roaring loudly, and many times there's 4 or 5 different services arround at once! The riding mowers and the powerful blowers produce noise that is so loud, it's frightening and drowns out phone call conversations. So if the services arrive on a work day when you have a conference call, it's never good. Eagerly, I await when these loud mowers will be against the rules and outlawed. I've been reading how California is headed that route... YAY! I get why they look for fast ways to mow, but realistically, these lawns are not big enough to justify riding mowers. The one service is out there now, it's just him, so he spends over an hour mowing and blowing with professional equipment! We (neighbor and I) have side fencing. The riding mower can't get into small spaces or some around landscaping, so he just mows 4 feet, even 5 feet into my yard so he doesn't have to do any of her yard by hand. He mows so far in that he's mowed over 3 of my sprinkler heads, which are far enough away from the property line to not mow, but he seems to care none. I've gently spoken with him. He blows her yard leaves up against my home side and side fence, creating a large mound. This also happens on the opposite side of my property by another lawn service. Their services cause my property to appear to be a total of at least 8 feet less wide, at times 10 feet. They mow so low they scalp the grass, and, because of the wood fencing, it's visible they've mowed plenty over the property lines. The sad part is the lawn services do it for their mowing conveniences, so it says they have no respect for my property as long as they can more easily do their jobs for the neighbors, yet the neighbors don't ever mention it to say how sorry they are, or that they're trying to remedy it. To add insult to injury, the one neighbor has been burning pinion wood in her patio chiminera that is placed so closely to my yard and blows downwind, that my home often reeks of the burning wood. The smoke fills my yard and the smell permeates into my home. She is too close in proximity to be doing that wood burning. My home will reek like it's on fire, which I used to think it was in the walls. We are not neighbors at odds, so there's nothing going on there. She burns so much pinion wood that I wear a cloth mask to sleep in because my throat has become scratchy, and now I cough a good bit, which I suspect is due to the wood burning. My sinuses seem to be highly irritated by the smoke. My bedroom is in close proximity to her patio. I'm not far from age 70, own my home and have lived here over 25 years. Her inconsiderate styles are becoming such a pain that infringe on my life, and I'm afraid the laws don't care about me in any of these situations.

A neighbor has 4 silver maples on the property line. When a branch falls, it gets sent over the line to the owners side. The male neighbor that lives on the other side of the property line isn't very nice. I am okay with that, but the female is nice enough to wave. I think that the Mrs. planted these silver maples on the property line, possibly, without telling Mr. Nastyface, no-wave. Making him think Our family planted them. When branches fall, if I can't safely run them over. If they are substancial, I pitch them over to the side of the tree owners side. I wouldn't think he was mean, but once I was going to wave and he looked at me, and I held the look, and was seconds from the wave and he made a sour- a**ed face at me. His expression was saying, "W@hat!!!? Most peeps around my neighborhood wave even if they don't know you, if you wave they wave back. He accused my neighbor next to me of stealing soil. We both bought a few buckets from another neighbor delivered by bobcat scoop-ful in broad daylight. Sorry if anyone lost interest in the post by now, but, some neighbors can be hard to agree with, I am glad this isn't a planned community with the rules of a -- I forget the initials Home --whatever it is. Even those Duck Dynasty guys have to pay to live in a neighborhood that tells them what to do. I would never (couldn't afford to) live in a fancy place that tells you what you can and can't do on your land you pay taxes on. The nerve of that is really something.

Thanks..I like this one and the one you suggested. At the very least its something to do while I spend every nite wide awake enjoying all my joyous menopausal symptoms. It does help a bit to know I am NOT ALONE in this HELL :)

bear in mind that there is a difference between the appraisal going up for the income producing capability--and the desirability of having a cell phone tower on your property. It depends on how big your property is. If you have a tiny yard in Los Angeles with a cell tower disguised as a very tall palm tree, don't add the whole $12,000 and you might have to do some subtracting. If you live in Montana and have a few acres add the whole $12,000.