What do you think - Page 2

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@dexhow much do you love to go to the cabin? I could not tolerate neighbors that close to me on vacation or main residence. I would put the property up for sale.

dex · ‎03-09-2010

@scatcat no we just told him no when we arrived to find that he was getting ready to build.We didn’t know of this new plan.He hasn’t done anything significant yet and I am not sure that he will now but you never know.Some of the other couples I think agree with him and think we are being unfair.If he builds this place there will be only about three feet in between us which is not at all to code. We have been having hot dry summers for the last few years with many forest fires in the area so I just don’t want to chance anything even for a friend.The owner of the other side of our duplex is also against this as he would be non compliant too as we are one stucture.

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

@dex wrote:
The problem is that he is very angry and not speaking to us which is difficult as we all (8 families)share the property.He originally told us he was adding on behind his cabin which probably is not legal either but won’t affect our insurance.I think he came up with his new plan as it would be cheaper and much simpler job.I understand that he is dissapointed but he isn’t in my mind considering our position at all.We just happened to show up to close down our place and saw that he was prepping for his new mini cabin in our fire safety zone.

@dex

I would report him now. If you showed up to close the place next time you show up his structure will be finished?

He should be able to build what he wants on his property as long as it's legal with a Permit.

He can be mad all he wants I still would not let him build on your property.

He will be really mad when you come back with his new structure & has to tear it down after he paid for material & built it.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@dex. Let your local code enforcement officer be the bearer of bad news. If your neighbor is mad at you, that's his problem. Hopefully he'll get over it but there's no reason you should feel guilty about it.

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dex · ‎03-09-2010

@Nightowlz@This is a shared property with four duplexes each half duplex owned by separate families.

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

@dex wrote:
@Nightowlz@This is a shared property with four duplexes each half duplex owned by separate families.

@dex

So I guess you share your property with this guy that wants to build where you don't want him too. That makes for a sticky situation. You would have to decide who owns what or should have when you bought it.

If what he's doing is not legal & requires a Permit I would report him to keep it off the property.

Like you said you paid money to bring yours up to get the Insurance you wanted. I would not have done all that to now let him build there.

If I had to I would talk with an attorney.

dex · ‎03-09-2010

@blackhole99@It has been fun to spend summers together but as we all get older it seems that problems are cropping up.My husband found this lake property 32 years ago at a great price and we divided the cost evenly between 8 friends so we each had our summer getaway.It seems that things aren’t working as well as they have in the past but I was just wondering if I was unreasonable and didn’t recognize it.

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@dexno you are not unreasonable IMO, but the fellow who wants to do his thing on your property doesn't seem to care that he's being unreasonable I would never put up with that, it just would not be fun for me if there was tension with neighbors.

dex · ‎03-09-2010

@blackhole99@I agree that this will not be fun if there is tension and there will be as he is not speaking to us now.I can’t understand his anger though as he is potentially breaking the law.We wanted to make our place bigger but couldn’t according to code and had to move it over to be the proper distance from him.These cabins were old when we bought them (not built to today’s stricter codes)and ours and one other are the only ones compliant at this time.