[TigerinFL]

We have el toro zoysia in our yard. Usually its the best looking lawn in the entire neighborhood. I live next to a crazy woman. The lot our house was built on three years ago was empty for ten years. It was the neighborhood dumping ground. Once our house was built the crazy neighbor hated we moved in. I sodded the entire yard and added irrigation which is a must in this climate and soil conditions.

Part of my front yard meets the crazy neighbors property. She doesn't have any grass there and just a little crushed rock. Normally her rock gets weeds during the summer and I do my best to keep them knocked down. The HOA has told her she must do something where the crushed gravel is. In her great wisdom she has poisoned it. Last year she sprayed roundup on a windy day and it took about 20 sq ft. of my zoysia. I just kept on hammering it with water and it took a few months but the zoysia came back. This year it appears she has sprayed her rock with salt or some kind of soil sterilizer. My yard is looking great except where our property lines meet. The zoysia is still brown in that area which is about 75' long and four foot wide.

No one in the neighborhood can talk to her or she will call the police and say you are threatening her. I am telling you guys she is grade A 100% crazy. Even the HOA hates messing with her. Needless to say I am pretty PO'ed because I have deal with her. I may be investing in a great camera system to catch her in the future. If I ever need evidence to take her to court then I will have it.

In the meantime I guess I am going to keep hitting it with water and hope for the best. I keep the HOC at just over one inch.

Any other suggestions on the damaged grass?

 

[Ware]

Wow. Good luck.

 

[WBrown999]

I would confront her with a cell phone video recording in your pocket. That way you have some evidence that no threats were made.

 

[J_nick]

Any pics of the area in question... and the crazy lady :crazy:

 

[Greendoc]

Activated Charcoal. El Toro is very salt tolerant. I do not put it above witches like that to put something containing Imazapyr or Pramitol on someone else's property. Imazapyr is what is in RoundUp 365. Pramitol is available at any TSC.

 

[Green]

Seashore Paspalum is also salt tolerant. It's pretty, too.

Tread very carefully in deciding if you want to confront or not and just put up with it.

 

[Greendoc]

To add, in my state, evidence that chemicals were applied in a manner that contaminated a neighboring property, constitutes chemical trespass. That carries criminal charges with administration by the DOA, police, and finally EPA. The government in Hawaii is crazier than any witch. DOA will gladly come out and take soil and tissue samples in cases of chemical trespass as well. Finding herbicides in your soil or in your grass would become a case against her.

 

[TigerinFL]

Trust me guys .... you don't want a pic ... lol. I think she's had at least 5 husbands. The last one lasted all of 6 weeks!

Unfortunately I cannot approach her at all. When we moved in I was trying to be a nice neighbor. We wanted to put up a nice 6' white vinyl fence that would run along the property line in the back yard. Her fence has seen it better day ten years ago. The reason I tried to talk to her about was it would allow her to remove her old fence before we installed the new fence. I also let her know her old fence was about 2' over on my property line and yes I had it surveyed and marked. She said the survey was wrong and I changed the markers that are buried in the road. Then later that day she called the cops over and said I threatened her.

Crazier than an outhouse rat!

 

[Movingshrub]

@TigerinFL , it seems your neighbor's sister lives next to me. Mine called the cops on me for cutting down trees on my side of the property line.

 

[Greendoc]

On this one, you do not approach her. Let the Florida DEP do that.

 

[TigerinFL]

did your crazy neighbor ever try to convince the HOA that a used hot tub was now a bird bath? I kid you not when they were building this house she had an old hot tub that ended up in the driveway one day. HOA told her to move it and she called it a bird bath!

 

[Movingshrub]

There is always the local city/county code enforcement if she's failing to meet a code. You could have some fun and start putting her address into Zillow on the Make Me Move option.

 

[ahartzell]

This has got to be the funniest thread on TLF in a while :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[Movingshrub]

Unfortunately, no HOA for my neighborhood. My neighbor had a tree growing out of her boat at one point.

 

[TigerinFL]

here is another crazy story. i have a few of em. so last year during hurricane season one was spinning out in the gulf. she gets some poor sucker to put up her hurricane shutters. cat one hurricane hit 100 miles east and we barely got an inch of rain out the deal.

cra cra (our nickname for her) leaves her hurricane shutters up for the next three months. no one else in the entire neighborhood has theirs up. I guess she gets a letter from the HOA telling her its time to take them down. well she isn't going to do it herself. then one night about midnight I see flashing red lights outside. its the fireman and they are parked out in front of cra cra's house. so I go outside and meet another neighbor and ask what is going on? he says that she reported a gas leak of some sorts. funny thing is no on here has gas! we are all electric.

take a wild guess who she got to take off her hurricane shutters? that's right the fireman did it! our tax dollars hard at work removing her hurricane shutters after midnight ... too funny.

 

[WBrown999]

Thank God you at least have an HOA for some level of Justice. Sheesh!

 

[RaginCajun]

I'd give up a couple feet of property line and make a border wall/buffer zone that would make Trump jealous.

Good fences = Good Neighbors

 

[Rackhouse Mayor]

My neighbor had a tree growing out of her boat at one point.

Your username all makes sense now :lol:

 

[Llano Estacado]

I'd give up a couple feet of property line and make a border wall/buffer zone that would make Trump jealous.

Good fences = Good Neighbors

+1

 

[Tellycoleman]

I'd give up a couple feet of property line and make a border wall/buffer zone that would make Trump jealous.

Good fences = Good Neighbors

I wouldnt give her an inch. Thats what she wants. She is use to playing the system and getting what she wants. openly video tape every transaction have the cellphone out and light turned on. In some states its illegal to video without permission. Move the fence or I will take it down after several written warnings.
or
Catch more flies with honey.
Lets start on a new foot
Offer to spray her yard with pre emergent and roundup. for $20 bucks ( Put it in writing). Smoke it dead. Give her a holiday gift for being a nice neighbor.
Offer to put her trash can back on the side of her house.
Then go for the KIll and tear down the fence. lol lol lol