Is worry justified or not?

Dear builders and experts,

we are now very close (3 days) to purchasing a plot of land that is being sold to us by a municipality. It is a new development area. Our plot is not directly adjacent to the street but has a rather narrow access road between other plots.

The first neighbors are already building. One of them is constructing a multi-family house with a basement. There is a lot of excavation material and little space on the plot. We know that the owner originally also wanted to buy our plot to build an even larger house. However, the municipality declined this.

Now we have noticed that a pile of earth (not huge, maybe 5 cubic meters) was dumped on our plot a few weeks ago.
Today, a pile of wooden slats was lying on the part of our future plot that forms the access road.
Driving through is therefore – as of today – not possible, unless via another neighbor’s plot.
Both the pile of earth and the wooden slats, from our point of view, could have found space on the plot they apparently came from.

We are certain that the items come from the plot of the multi-family house builder. He has not contacted us to ask if he can store something temporarily.

Two weeks ago, I mentioned the pile of earth in a conversation with the municipality when we arranged the notary appointment. I emphasized that a) it is not large and b) technically it can be stored there for now under the condition that it is removed by the start of our construction. c) That I do not want to start a war over it.

The lady from the city basically said: Where would we end up if we set months-long deadlines for removal now? We don’t even start with such things. She sent an email to the neighbor asking for removal.

I do not know whether or how he replied. In any case, nothing has been removed, and the pile of earth now, as described, has company.

I am now afraid that the pile of deposited items will grow further over the next few weeks and that before our construction start in spring, we will first have to remove the foreign materials at considerable expense.

At the same time, I realize that the amount of material is still manageable and I would not want to start a dispute about it if I knew it would stay that way.

Do you have any advice on how we can deal with this? If you consider these to be trivial matters that are not worth worrying about, that would also help me.

We do not want to move into a new neighborhood on a confrontational course and theoretically there is also the possibility that the neighbor will remove his things voluntarily. However, there is also the possibility that he will become stubborn or deny that they belong to him and that over time more and more piles will accumulate on our plot.

The fact is that we can only approach the city for a short time now since the notary appointment is “only” in a few days. After that they are no longer involved.

Waiting to buy the plot until the neighbor is finished in order to see in what condition our plot then is would not be a time option.

Thank you very much for your views in advance – and please don’t grill me if you find all of this completely stupid.

Best regards

Introduce yourself to the neighbor and talk to each other in person?

Insanity. You don't even think of just talking in person? But community and forum, yes? I can't understand that for the life of me anymore.

Hello

first of all: the property does (not) belong to you (yet).
As soon as it is yours, I would talk to the neighbors.
Maybe it would be a good idea to buy a wildlife camera and already have some pictures of the activities on "your" property.

Steven

Buy property. Then ask the seller to vacate the property. Or talk to the neighbor. Talking is underestimated.

Since the property currently still belongs to the municipality, I would ask for clarification there, otherwise in my opinion you are buying the property in its current condition, that is, with piles of earth and wooden slats.