Nothing beats gaining some delicious vengeance on someone who intended you to fail. And what if that individual turns out to be a nosy neighbor with a flair for causing havoc? That’s what we call a double victory. Some neighbors simply enjoy provoking friction and making difficulty. Here’s what occurred when a nosy neighbor reported a couple’s shed for being ‘too huge.’ Things, however, took a surprising turn, and the neighbor soon received a taste of her own medicine. Scroll down for the complete tale and tell us what you would have done differently, and whether you’ve ever had to cope with equally terrible neighbors.
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I love malicious compliance. Our neighbor reported our old (but sturdy) shed to the city for being too large without a permit. Inspector comes out, measures, nope the shed is well under the size limits and doesn’t need a permit.
Husband starts asking questions about the rules and gets all the specifics on what is allowed. The shed is old and very basic, why not have a bigger, better shed? Oh and btw, the inspector knows the neighbor, she used to work in the planning department, knows the rules and clearly was just trying to make trouble, her m.o. He looks into her property and says he can see a good half dozen issues if we’d like to report them. We laugh but nah, we’re gonna go the malicious compliance route.
We rip down the shed, hoping the neighbor is smugly gloating to herself. We do nothing for 3 weeks, well except draw up plans, buy material, lay the foundation and line up a couple construction friends to help. Then one Saturday our glorious big new shed goes up!
Now we hadn’t heard from this neighbor in 3 weeks but now she’s asking about our new shed, she’d love to see inside if we don’t mind. We did.
Cue another inspection notice for building a granny flat (the shed) on our property. Obviously the inspection goes fine. Well except those violations on neighbor’s property. That unpermitted open fire pit built right against the retaining wall & fence is a concern, we don’t want it burning down our new shed haha. She’s got a couple guys out there right now jackhammering out concrete. I think I’ll go offer them some cold drinks from the mini-fridge in the new shed.
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