Neighbors' bushes on our property...

cool, I’d really be up for a new neighbor like that.

If you showed up at my place like that, it would be very easy for me.

Your property, your bushes, your problem.

End of story, door closed.

If you invite me over for a bottle of beer, you’re welcome to come to me and talk about everything. Because I’m not grudging.

Keep in mind, maybe at the housewarming party from 10 PM on you’ll depend on the neighbor’s goodwill.

I can already hear S.Raab again... shrub with exploding peas, chain-link fence and all that...

Not a word spoken to each other yet and already poisoning the atmosphere. A sincere piece of advice: calm down!

How exactly would I show up...? If you had read more than just the first post, you would know that I want to try it nicely at first.

He wants to keep his bushes on our property, though... another neighbor told me that... why would they make that up? I myself was not even aware of the issue at the time.

If we then come to a friendly agreement while drunk, that’s all fine. I just want to inform myself in advance, what if not? – That this could happen is already conceivable from the above statement, as well as from the fact that he keeps coming onto the property and digging meter-long trenches.

I should just casually see the extra work in my scarce free time to close them up again and the missing topsoil...

I am completely relaxed, just wanted to show how this behavior comes across. And regarding the other post... the same.

Of course I mean the OP Basti

To me, it seems here as if it doesn't matter how you speak to the neighbor and how you end up with him in the end. If you are already annoyed without having spoken a single word to the neighbor who had a free field next to him for 10 years, then it seems to me that you will very soon find the next topic to get upset about. In this respect, I suspect that the neighborhood quarrel is inevitable.

But a forum like this is always only written. You say that is not the case.

What exactly do you want to know from the readers?

I have indeed read the entire thread.

One time the excavator just slides across and the topic is settled. After construction, your property looks like a battle from WWI took place there anyway. Only the poison gas was omitted.

Your source is hearsay. Of course, I think everyone would want to keep "their" hedge. But if that’s just not possible, then that’s how it is.

In your place, I would recommend not believing everything anyone has ever heard anywhere sometime. Are you familiar with the whispering game and its effect?

Just talk to the neighbor involved, as recommended above. Then you'll know where you stand. You can always wield the club much later.

Yeah, he deliberately placed the bushes there to make the future buyer angry or to annoy you.

I can also imagine that this was not his intention. Unfortunately, you did not address all the arguments that support this and ignored them...

A neighbor can have the most intense relationship after your parents/children. And even longer. So please sit down at eye level with the neighbor and reconsider whether you shouldn’t change your attitude toward your environment a bit.

It’s not about how and when we settle this. Here, only a reasonable conversation between me and the neighbor will help, but who would then have to take care of removing the bushes... me as the owner or the originator? This also for the case that there is no amicable agreement.

Of course you don’t have to accept it – however, something like this can be calmly resolved with reason

I fully agree with you here.

Again: the owner must take care of their property, but in this case, that is not YOU!