Internet applauds clever move of neighbor who stopped man from claiming 9 inches of their land

People often come up with plans to bother their neighbors or take a part of their land to somehow feel good and "respected" about it. That's exactly what this man was about to do. However, instead of getting away with it, the neighbor figured out that their property line was way into the man's property. Reddit user u/kingofzdom shared in a Reddit post what their neighbor tried to do and how they taught him a lesson. 

They started by writing, "We have lived in our house for about 8 years in a rural neighborhood in Arizona." But about a year ago, a man from California bought a plot next to theirs and "threw a fit about the stuff they had on the property line." They went on to say that they had a single fence pole where the property line was. They didn't have any other markers. "Dude was absolutely livid that we had vehicles parked on his property (the very tip of one of our cars was touching the established boundary)," they wrote. He threatened them to tow their vehicles.

So, they got a land survey conducted and it turned out that their property line was a good 20" into his property. "Homeboy should have just let sleeping dogs lie and not be an a**hole about a few inches," they expressed. They later added to the post that it used to be a "very understandable place to live," but in the last few years, the place has been developed and it has attracted a lot of people. They wrote, "The neighbor is one of these new people. We moved here specifically because the neighborhood had a bunch of messy yards already and we wanted to also have lenient neighbors. We lived in harmony with our neighbors' junky yards for years."

They shared the new neighbor called the county anonymously on many residents. They knew it was him because he had threatened to call the county for their messy yard. "He came on our property by at least 40' (before there was a fence) to closely examine our piles of scrap metal. We caught this on camera and confronted him in text," they wrote. When they confronted him, he expressed he was livid that he had purchased land next to a "pseudo-scrap yard." The neighbor wrote, "We had several cars in various stages of disassembly and piles of materials. Keep in mind that this is the country." They added that the man was not living in his plot and had bought three small cabins to turn it into an income property. 

However, when they put a 'no trespassing' sign, the man got offended and screamed obscenities at them. They concluded, "We haven't seen him. We saw him on our security camera, observing the survey markers dismayed. It's entirely possible that we entirely chased him out of the neighborhood." People in the comments applauded the person for the move. u/no-mad-clad commented, "Please tell me you had a fence put up exactly on that new property line. Like a 50 ft tall fence that blocked the morning sun from his home/s." The neighbor responded, "We're building it today out of the ugliest most rotten old pallets we could find. The dude is going to have to look at it every time he comes outside as a reminder of how much of a dingus he was."

u/snoowords4839 wrote, "This is why everyone should always have a survey and a copy of the plot that is filed with the town. Glad he lost even more space. I hope you put a fence down that line." u/frosty-view-9581 expressed, "As a land surveyor, you made the best call you could even if it cost a little more than planned." u/deemaunik said, "The most rewarding thing in all of this is that he still has to be your neighbor and deal with the social fallout from his a***ole tendencies every time he sees you. He's perpetually in a dunce cap of shame."