When purchasing a home, why limit the inspection to the building? Why not go further and inquire about the neighborhood?
Let me tell you the misadventures of the buyers with their new neighbors in the months following their purchase. The buyers politely inform their neighbors not to blow snow on their land or near the windows of their basement. They also kindly ask them not to cut the climbing vine on the fence of their own land.
Following these incidents, the buyers' attorney formally requests that the neighbors keep the peace. Their attorney retorts and demands $10,000 in damages and compensation.
Subsequently, one of the neighbors, during his weekly three-hour car wash using a noisy 1400-pound pressure pump, "accidentally" sprays one of the buyers three times. In addition, a friend visiting the neighbors parks his truck in front of the buyers' property. The friend audaciously goes as far as cleaning his trailer and intentionally places various items on the freshly seeded lawn. The situation escalates and the buyers involve the police.
Following these events, the neighbors take the matter to court*, suing the buyers for damages and seeking a permanent injunction against them. The court reminds that the Civil Code states that neighbors must accept normal inconveniences of the neighborhood that do not exceed the limits of tolerance. The Court concludes that the neighbors are primarily responsible for the deterioration of relations with the buyers. Therefore, the neighbors are ordered to compensate the buyers for damages in the amount of $4,000, as the buyers have been deprived of the peaceful enjoyment of their property, which they have also decided to put up for sale.
In the face of such a farce, I can only quote an Arabic proverb: do not buy your house before buying your neighbor.
*CS 505-17-004965-101
