After a short conversation with the neighbor yesterday, I find out a bit more about our property’s history, namely, that a previous owner also made maple syrup from the same trees we now had tapped. I didn’t know it had an owner before the family we bought it from.
More curiously though, is that the guy lives . . . right behind us!
While this might seem great to some, it poses some unique issues. Namely, the guy’s family have been the ones trespassing all over our property, and poaching deer. This is also the same property line where all my “No Trespassing” signs have somehow disappeared.
I can understand a certain loyalty to the land, however, the guy has not owned it in well over 20 years.
There is also a very good chance its HIS dogs running amuck through my property.
While my first instinct with a previous owner is to go knock on their door and glean all the history of our property I can, this one leaves me hesitant. If I go over as a friendly neighbor, I lose any chance of holding them accountable for disrespecting the law and respecting our ownership of the land (I don’t make waves with people I’m on good terms with).
If I continue on current terms of not being happy about trespassing and eventually confronting them about it, I lose all chance of happy relations with previous owners, and any history involved.
Sigh. I might just have to go talk to my other neighbor down the street who also knew the guy and get his thoughts.