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The rental we bought is on the corner, our home is the next house one way and the problem neighbors are the house the other way. We share two property lines with them. The rental's side yard and our side yard.
Our side yard has an easement that we have maintained and have been using as our driveway as for whatever reason that's the only access that our property has to the back.
Herein lies the problem. The neighbors who live on the ajoining property firstly are the owners of the hounds from hell. Three bassett hounds who bark and howl continually and are now trying to attack us if we are in the rental property yard. I planted shrubs, lots and lots of shrubs so said hounds couldn't see us, but they're small shrubs and not growing as quickly as I'd wish them to. That problem is getting resolved but slowly. We may still install a ten foot privacy fence. We really do not want to see their messy yard, lots of broken down cars, junk in the yard and needing to be painted masonry house.
The main problem is there is a culvert that runs between the properties, along the side of the easement. It's deep. It exists to keep water out of our basement which we added last year. The neighbors from hell's big plan is to take down the privacy fence between the back of their property and the side of the home we live at and park a HEARSE in the yard. To do that they'd have to fill in the drainage ditch that we rely on to keep our home safe. We additionally would have the added fun and luxury of seeing thier mess and having the dogs lunge at us and try to attack us and be able to hear them bark even more as we do spend a lot of time in our yard as I am an avid gardener.
Does anyone have any ideas what we can do? We live in a tiny Iowa town with no rules and no regulations. No zoning or building codes to speak of. The only reason one gets a permit here to build anything is so the tax assessor knows to check on you.
We've spent the last three years making these two properties beautiful and in one spring and summer are very afraid two idiots and three dogs are going to ruin it.
DH said perhaps we should have let the hounds bite us, we could own that property too. The dogs are not nuetered though, so probably are unvaccinated as well. Thanks for reading my rant.
Suggestions?