I am hoping you folks can give me some advice. Yesterday morning I heard a chainsaw running at the new neighbor's house behind me. I didn't pay much attention to it. Later in the morning, I left the house with a friend coming home just before dark.
When I got home, I was shocked at what I saw. The "workers" had used my driveway to get a large, heavy dump truck closer to the logs and limbs from the cut down trees. There is 3 problems with them doing that. First, my truck was at the head of my driveway and there was not enough room for the large dump truck to get close without backing into my yard. Second, we have had a lot of rain lately, and had about 4 inches of snow 36 hours before they drove through my yard, and there was actually standing water at the end of the driveway that they had to drive through! Third, my yard stays wet and extremely soft for DAYS after rain/snow during the winter!
Of course, since I was not home, I didn't give the "workers " permission to come on my property. The truck made huge, deep ruts down much of my driveway! They also drove over the top of a berm that the builder had to put in to keep rain water from going into my garage. Now it has deep ruts running through it and is much flatter. If the workers had asked me if they could back their dump truck down my driveway, I would have refused explaining to them about the condition of the wet, soft driveway. But, I would have told them to leave all the logs and limbs where they were and when the ground was dry enough, we would discuss it again. BTW, the workers left no note saying that they would fix the damage! One of my other neighbors told me that neither of their vehicles (dump truck and Jeep Cherokee) had any signage on them. I have no idea if they are licensed, bonded, or insured.
Like I said earlier, these are new neighbors that I have not met. To tell you the truth, I didn't realize that I had new neighbors. The old neighbors, who had lived behind me for 30+ years, moved months ago. Between the virus, me having 2 foot surgeries that kept me home bound for 6-8 weeks each time, and the fact I have never seen them in their backyard, we have never met. One other thing I should add, the old neighbors had some trees cut down a couple of years ago. They called me ahead of time and asked if they could use my driveway to make moving the tree debris easier. They said that the truck would stay on the driveway and that they would put sheets of plywood on my grass so they could drive a Bobcat over them and not hurt my yard. It was very dry, and summertime if I remember correctly. I told them no problem. I moved my truck out of the driveway, their dump truck stayed on the driveway, and everything went fine.
I have not been able to talk to the neighbors yet. I haven't even been able to find a telephone number for them yet. I took pictures just before it got dark. There were no lights on at their house so I didn't go over there. I contacted the HOA hoping that they could give me their telephone number. No luck there.....yet. If I can't find their number tomorrow morning, I'll drop in for a "visit".
I know this is long, but I hope some of y'all will read it and give me some advice. Thanks in advance.
Larry
PS - Here are a few pictures.
When I got home, I was shocked at what I saw. The "workers" had used my driveway to get a large, heavy dump truck closer to the logs and limbs from the cut down trees. There is 3 problems with them doing that. First, my truck was at the head of my driveway and there was not enough room for the large dump truck to get close without backing into my yard. Second, we have had a lot of rain lately, and had about 4 inches of snow 36 hours before they drove through my yard, and there was actually standing water at the end of the driveway that they had to drive through! Third, my yard stays wet and extremely soft for DAYS after rain/snow during the winter!
Of course, since I was not home, I didn't give the "workers " permission to come on my property. The truck made huge, deep ruts down much of my driveway! They also drove over the top of a berm that the builder had to put in to keep rain water from going into my garage. Now it has deep ruts running through it and is much flatter. If the workers had asked me if they could back their dump truck down my driveway, I would have refused explaining to them about the condition of the wet, soft driveway. But, I would have told them to leave all the logs and limbs where they were and when the ground was dry enough, we would discuss it again. BTW, the workers left no note saying that they would fix the damage! One of my other neighbors told me that neither of their vehicles (dump truck and Jeep Cherokee) had any signage on them. I have no idea if they are licensed, bonded, or insured.
Like I said earlier, these are new neighbors that I have not met. To tell you the truth, I didn't realize that I had new neighbors. The old neighbors, who had lived behind me for 30+ years, moved months ago. Between the virus, me having 2 foot surgeries that kept me home bound for 6-8 weeks each time, and the fact I have never seen them in their backyard, we have never met. One other thing I should add, the old neighbors had some trees cut down a couple of years ago. They called me ahead of time and asked if they could use my driveway to make moving the tree debris easier. They said that the truck would stay on the driveway and that they would put sheets of plywood on my grass so they could drive a Bobcat over them and not hurt my yard. It was very dry, and summertime if I remember correctly. I told them no problem. I moved my truck out of the driveway, their dump truck stayed on the driveway, and everything went fine.
I have not been able to talk to the neighbors yet. I haven't even been able to find a telephone number for them yet. I took pictures just before it got dark. There were no lights on at their house so I didn't go over there. I contacted the HOA hoping that they could give me their telephone number. No luck there.....yet. If I can't find their number tomorrow morning, I'll drop in for a "visit".
I know this is long, but I hope some of y'all will read it and give me some advice. Thanks in advance.
Larry
PS - Here are a few pictures.
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