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So living in the country is lovely. Except when you have neighbours who hate you, and you don't have CCTV installed (yet) to catch vandals in the act of property destruction.
Last night I'm coming home when it's dark, and I pull up to our gate. One of the doors is lying down on the ground. I'm like, uh, ok. I get out to look, thinking maybe it was so incredibly windy that a door blew down. This is unlikely, as the doors are fairly heavy (too heavy for me to carry), and when I had a look, I did not see anything that would indicate the door fell down on its own. So my next line of thinking is someone (or many someones) actually LIFTED the door off its hinges and put it on the ground. I cannot think of any other way it would have been removed from its hinges.
This is not the first time we have suffered property damage in a suspicious way.
1. A sundial went missing from our back garden last year. Who would take a sundial? Neighbours who hate us would, that's who.
2. When we had another car parked in the front, it mysteriously got keyed 4 times along the passenger side. Deep gouges too, down to the metal.
3. Our tax disc went missing. A tax disc is not of any benefit to anyone other than the owner of the car the disc is linked to. The disc is evidence that you've paid your yearly road tax, that is all. It's unique to the car, and cannot be transferred to or used for another car. The tax disc is in the front passenger side on the dash. This side faces away from our house, and can't be easily seen if someone is standing and watching in the back garden. We rarely left our car unlocked, and since it went missing we never do.
4. Two of our tires were punctured. At home. Parked on our property. Safely (?) inside our fence. The tires were both on the passenger side, the side that is not visible from the house or the back garden. Punctured in the same place on both tyres, right near the ground. So it's not like we ran over something sharp and it randomly punctured the tyres. Oh and the tyres were fine when we parked the car.
5. A piece of door trim went missing from the front passenger side door. Yes the same side that can't be seen from the house.
Our neighbours hate us, and are crazy. They hate us because we own a piece of property which borders on their driveway, and they want us to move our fence to give them wider access to their driveway. Ren doesn't want to do it, because he doesn't want them to think they have more property than they do, and he doesn't want to inadvertently give away property, however small it may be. Also, this piece of property used to belong to them, and they sold it to the previous owner of our house when they needed money. So we got it when Ren bought the house. So it's ours, not theirs, but boy you'd think otherwise.
They also do not like when we have fires in the back garden, in the piece of property which they used to own, which is now ours. Oh boy don't they like it. In fact, most of the damage that I've described above has happened almost immediately after we've had a fire.
They have also contacted the council, who in turn has sent us a letter telling us that our neighbours have complained about our "nuisance" fires and if this continues they will investigate (we of course are like, yeah, investigate, and you'll see we are doing everything we are allowed to do).
And they've had their lawyer send us a letter threatening us with legal action if we continue to harass this poor, old, retired couple who have never done us any harm, and we are constantly coming on to their property and harassing and intimidating them. This is a compete lie. I personally have been on their property exactly once, at her insistence, when she was doing quite a bit of harassing and intimidating me. She and her daughter, on the other hand, have been VERY intimidating, threatening and harassing to us, on our property, pushing their way into the fence when the door was propped shut, as if they own the property and it's theirs to do whatever they want on.
And finally they have contacted the trust which owns the piece of property we both have to drive over to get access to our respective properties. This bit of land is not owned by either of us; we both pay a yearly fee to have access to our properties. This should mean that it is not their business what happens on that bit of land (within reason; obviously if someone is being harmed or something that would be a different matter). For example, if we happen to leave our fence gate doors open for a half hour or so, it is not their business, as it does not impact them in the slightest (the doors do not block access to their driveway). Nor should it matter to them if we have visitors park on that property, as long as the cars do not block access to their driveway or access to the turning space. But they have written to the trust and complained that we are doing all of these things (blocking access to their land, blocking access to the turning space), which we are not doing. Perhaps we have had visitors park on the communal (trust-owned) property, but it has in no way blocked or impeded access to either their land or the turning space. However, they have often done both: blocked access to our property, and blocked access to turning space, either with delivery vans, visitors, or deliveries of building materials.
I've started documenting when all of these things happen. In fact, this entry is mainly to document all activities up to this point in time. I'm calling our locksmith to come out and look at installing a CCTV system, because I want to catch whoever is doing all of this in the act. I suspect it is the neighbours, or some agent of them. Who else has such strong negative feelings about us, however valid they may or may not be?
I am getting mighty sick of all of this, though. I am not used to living next door to people who hate me! I just want peace and quiet. We are in the country, after all.
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