Evil neighbour selling up!
Rejoice with me, CasualUK, because my evil neighbour (miserable old bastard squatting in a five bed) has finally put his house on the market!
A couple of highlights:
--the drive is shared between the houses. Before we moved in my MIL came round and he confronted her and screamed in her face because we were a family with two kids and we'd have two cars and parking them both on the drive would be a nuisance to him. She said we only had one car. He said, 'Well, the children will be driving!' Of note here: a) he had built a flowerbed blocking most of the entry on his side so he drove across our property every time, b) our kids were 1 and 3. (We do now have a second car. It fits fine on the drive.)
--when we converted our garage into a side extension, which didn't impact him at all, his fuss included forcing us to pay for a party wall surveyor and running up a £3000 bill, harassing the other party wall surveyor till he threatened action, coming onto our property and screaming at the builders till they threatened to walk off the job, making spurious complaints to the council, and attempting to make us pay for the replacement of his 30-year-old double glazing because the vibrations from the work had broken the seal.
We've lived next to the miserable old shit for fourteen years. I sincerely hope his kids are putting him into the worst Shady Pines possible.