• doctordevice@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Did you sue? I’d have been livid enough to try to sue. IANAL, but at a minimum I would hope that would be trespassing.

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      Some places have bylaws on maximum lawn height and you can actually be fined for letting it go. That’s how insane people are about lawns.

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        1 year ago

        I thought it was virtually all places. I’m surprised the other guy could even let the lawn go native.

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        Not everywhere is in an HOA. And many people allow native vegetation on purpose to give local wildlife something to eat (see OP).

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      I mean that’s probally overkill, that person was either OCD or was thinking he was doing them a favor. That sounds like a great way to have a pissed off neighbor and a potentially hostile neighborhood

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        I’d feel a little different (still pissed) if it was a next door neighbor who extended their mow. But to cross the street and change someone’s property without permission is already hostile to me.

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      By the letter of the law it probably is, but if they hadn’t expressly been told not to it won’t go anywhere.

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      I doubt that I could have demonstrated real harm, or even proved that he did it. I got back into town a week later and my brother, who had been watching the house, said “huh, the guy across the street mowed the front yard”.