@@Jimmyjimjimjim Ive been a plumbing apprentice for one year, a few different companies... Bro tell me why the bossman one day tells me to go help dig a site, shows up for 2 min shows where to trench.. I'm talking to the two other guys there... neither of them had a site supervision license, or considered a "competent person" designated to dig a 6 foot trench, 2 feet past the allowed. I realize, suddenly I am the only person there who can fill that position, no one told me the scopes of the job, no one told me anything other than im going to help dig? Now I realize that if an inspector comes... I just happened to be licensed as a site supervisor, they're going to start questioning me about the site, and then I get barred from working the field..? I guess? IDK, but all im saying... whoever dug that, probably was working under the guidance or direction of someone with an actual contractors permit, basically tom sawyered.
@@temujinkhan6326 Her being elderly, probably eased any fear they may have had in digging in her yard. But you make a good point as the guilty party may be elderly themselves.
Something like this happened to me with Comcast a few years ago. I don't have cable TV and am not a Comcast customer. My next door neighbor wanted to get cable but the closest box to connect to it was two houses away in the other direction. Comcast wanted to run an underground line through my back yard close to my house. I declined to give them an easement because it was going to be inconveniently located. I wouldn't be able to plant my garden, do any landscaping, extend my deck, or build a shed. I wasn't home one day and came back with my children to find a bright orange comcast cable line run through all the trees in my back yard, about four feet off the ground and laid across the grass in front of my deck. The installer had even stomped down a fort my kids had built in the woods about 25 feet behind the house. I called to have it removed because their bright orange wire was an eyesore, made most of my yard unusable, and they had trespassed to put it up through my yard when they didn't have an easement. It was on the ground in my neighbor's yard for just 8 feet, from the shared property line to the house. She was an older single lady with no kids. Comcast kept making appointments to move it. I would stay home to make sure they actually did the work, and they would never show up. Every time we mowed the yard, we' have to pick up the cable line and mow under it, through the whole back yard. This went on for months. The last straw was when my 9 year old daughter was running up to the deck, forgot about the wire, tripped on it, and faceplanted into the deck. I grabbed a brick and an ax. I walked over to both my property lines, laid the wire across the brick, and chopped it off so it was no longer in my yard. That very day a comcast manager came to my house in his private vehicle. He asked me where the line was. I told him I chopped it off at the property lines and it was coiled up in my garage if he wanted it back. He started screaming at me and said he could send me to jail for tampering with the cable. I told him to go ahead and try because I had proof I wasn't their customer, had been making appointments for months to have it removed and they never showed up, there was no easement in my yard for utilities or anything else, they'd destroyed my kids' fort when they strung the line through my trees, and I'd sue them on behalf of my daughter who was injured because of all the illegal things they'd done. That guy looked stunned, shut up, and left. I never heard from them again and the cops never came to take me to jail. I guess sometimes it takes an ax to get the proper results.
Good for you! I dealt with the same situation with my pyscho neighbor, dragged on for 3 months, then one night when I was at work they trespassed into my yard and buried a new line for the a$$. Ridiculous red tape to try to pursue it any further.
You are way more patient than I would have been in that situation. If I came home and discovered that someone had trespassed on my property and done any work without my permission, it would have been immediately cut, torn out, removed, or otherwise removed, and I would have called the police and done a citizens arrest for trespass and had them cited for trespassing/destruction of property.
You should have immediately cut the line instead of waiting until something happened. Since you waited for something to happen, an accident happened with your daughter that could have been easily prevented. Of course this being a couple years I hope she had a quick and speedy recovery from face planting her face into your deck. PS: The second part of that last sentence is sarcasm.
That costs money. The poor thing is on oxygen and said she was at work when it started. Her having to work while disabled tells me she does not have those kinds of funds lying around especially if she just shelled out to fix her own sewer line. Neighbor needs to get a licensed contractor out to fix his mess and stop looking to her yard as a means to get what he wants. She hangs tight she just might end up owning that house next door.
Since the neighbors old, broken line exists, that is where the replacement line should have run. Even if the neighbor is correct about the easement, sewer lines and sewer hook ups require licensed crews and permits. This was the neighbor trying to cut many thousands of dollars off of the cost of a replacement sewer and now their rental house can't be rented because it has no sewer hookup.
It would require an exceptional circumstance. Then one has to ask who is responsible for the shared section... That is a legal nightmare just waiting to ruin lives down the road.
I'm a retired builder in PA and utility easements are very prevalent. They can be for water, sewer, gas or electric and are recorded on the deed to the property.
@@markthebuilder9837 100% 20 years property investing I have seen utilties cut through whole blocks of yards. If they do not have a easment the court will grant one cause its better good of the public. Lots of uniformed people making foolish comments lol Wait till folks figure out almost all homes built after 2006 do not own th rights to the dirt under there feet lol
@markthebuilder9837 do they allow you to tie into the neighbors lines? If so I'll never have a water or sewer bill again! And gas and electric are next!
They do exist. A neighbor of mine has her Septic line run under a county road and into a neighbor's field where their septic field is also on an easement, but it is all properly filed with the county and on the deeds of both properties.
I work for a utility- easement issues come up more than I'd like. Wherever the old sewer line is is where the easement is. The only time an easement runs through the middle of a property is when the owner, not the neighbor, is trying to save a few $$. The owner of the rental house is trying to take advantage of the elderly lady. His lawyer is a POS too, she has zero reason to accept a settlement.
you cannot tie that house to her service line. it has to run to the sewer main and be tapped for it-permit and license and inspection required. you cannot get an easement across another property to access the sewer-to a alley and then take it to the main. the neighbor is liable and must have a licensed plumber , with permit-unhook them and redo her line where they tied on to proper code and remove the other houses line to the property line. then start and run it to the city main correctly and the city will then bill that man and wind up taking the house for fines and fees. I hope the lady gets justice!
Happens everywhere. My neighbor was dumb enough to tell me he took his chainsaw and girdled my tree in our pasture 30 feet inside of our fence because branches would fall off and land in his yard, and he didn’t wanna have to rake the leaves up all the time, and I was just shaking my head. I mean, I didn’t care about the tree, but he could’ve asked permission before he tried cutting down my damn tree. There’s a reason why there’s four strands of Bob wire between me and him but I didn’t say nothing because we had agreed years before that if I shot a deer or he shot a deer, we could go on each other‘s property at the other end where is not fenced But you gotta be really dumb not to ask permission to cut somebody’s tree down 30 foot fence line behind the fence. He also had put a bait pile for deer hunting out in my pasture on our land and our horses which ate out there all the time ate his deer Bait got sick and we had to pay a $600 vet bill that just got me where I don’t really wanna talk to him no more .
Was there an easement. If that would have been clarified instantly the video would not have been so misleading. No easement messing with neighbors property is illegal. Period.
It sounds very strange indeed. I had my sewer line replaced a few years ago, the simply dug up the old clay pipes and put the new ones in the same hole. But maybe that is what happens when you hire Mr know-it-all instead of a real plumber? And the neighbor's lawyer is probably as good as her plumber, and didn't want to pay for everything.
Just because it went for YOU in one fashion doesn't mean that's the correct remedy in all others. No consideration of all the details and what would make a sewer pipe work and to code. You apparently enjoy making assumptions based on minimal info.
@@markmalasics3413 So you think running across the neighbor's yard without permission, by an unlicensed guy, is a better choice? And he considered all the details and was to code? Are you nutz???
@@markmalasics3413 "No consideration of all the details and what would make a sewer pipe work and to code." sounds exactly like what the offender did. You apparently enjoy jumping into absurd deductions!
Why in the world did they cut across her yard and connect to her line when all they had to do was go straight back to the main and connect? She should win hands down. Some people are brainless.
Not only does the attorney agree this is wrong on a number of levels, but the CITY did too! That there tells you the other person is so in the wrong. But the denied funds was due to putting an easement where there is NONE to start with. SO no, I would say he needs to fix her back yard and get that the PROPER way. Stop using someone's yard to make an easement where there IS NONE!
Have you wondered why companies and individuals are just taking over people's yards, like putting in cable or other nonsense without asking permission? And the fact most cities and towns are letting them? It seems to me, that the local governments have stopped pretending that the people own thier propertys and everything belongs to the goverments?
I think it's sad that a woman who obviously has serious health issues was still going to work the day this trench was dug. If she'd been retired and home the day they came to dig the trench she could have shut them down before they trashed her yard.
Sewers should never be combined into one line. If one property plugs the line everything is going into the other properties basement. We had a plumber do the same thing to my folks business. Even though he knew it was against regulations he did it anyway. Solution was he dug it up, fix it correctly all at his expense.
Yea the black woman will lose because the owner of the other property is white. You're talking about Tennessee! When has any black person received justice in a a racist state!!
If you alter the original drainage plan of the development, you could be liable. If you alter drainage to only affect your property, not ghe development, no.
Did I hear correctly ? Was the un-permitted sewer line requested by a tenant, not the property owner? I would think the property owner is the only one who can contract for a new sewer line to be put in. Now the property owner of the rental house AND the lady whose yard was torn up BOTH have a case against the tenant and the unlicensed plumber.
Clean outs don’t connect you to the sewer. That’s a lateral, clean out is for you to snake/clean out your lateral. And it seems no one understands what an easement is. Damn
well, the reporter could have easily gone down to the county clerks office and looked to see if such an easement exists. Not only easy, but free. That would have been reporting. What we got here is the "he said, she said" version. Which is gossip, frankly.
If there really is an easement going between the properties, then this man would have to let this woman know that there is an easement and he would have to show proof, you can’t just go by word-of-mouth. If there is an easement then, yes he is correct. He has the right to use that easement for such purposes. The issue I have with the story is that if this man and his attorney absolutely knows there is an easement on the property they would have never offered a settlement to this for damages. I think the neighbor is full of crap and I think his lawyer is trying to buy him time so they can try to find a loophole in the system. If this neighbor wants the problem to go away, then he has to offer a settlement that will definitely cover all damages and the way to do that is to ask the female neighbor to give him a receipt from a contracting company that shows exactly how much this would cost to put her yard back together again. People can’t come up with a number and think it’s going to be acceptable.
HE HAS TO GET AN EASEMENT FROM THE OWNERS. PLUS YOU DON'T ATTACH YOUR SEWER PIPE TO ANOTHER PERSON SEWER PIPE. YOU HAVE TO TAP THE MAIN. AND STOP HIRING UNLICENSED WORKERS.
If I was the neighbor I would offer to fix the yard. Have a landscaper come in level the yard sod the yard make it perfect and pay her water bill for the summer. If that didn’t make her happy then she is just looking for a payday then fight it out in court.
Unfortunately at this point she is going to demand legal fees and should be able to do so. She had to pay a lawyer to get the stop order done and she is likely demanding that they remove the connection to her line as well using a licensed plumber.
@unusualfire If it was me, I would pay it. Get it done cheaply because it's just a quick fill. It's really an hour job.... But then I would also sue them if necessary...
If accusations are true, the judge will deal with it. Why an article when the courts are already involve? The article is not going to speed up the court process. Whats done is done and they will take their time dealing with it in the court system.
The local courts should have had this dealt with within a week. the news is that it has taken way too long. She is being denied use of her property, she will never get that denied use back, the clock,is ticking. How will you like it if someone stole your car, you find your car, but the cops and courts drag their feet for weeks in getting the car returned to you?
....Tying into the lines is about city life and not having your own space....Doesnt matter whether you like it. The neighbors house cant be denied sewer access.....Move to the country, get a septic system🤷🏼♂️ Complaining about it has left a trench in your yard for almost a year. Could have been done a long time ago. Pipe is going in that trench for sure
You don't need a license to know better than to trespass and destroy property.
Apparently you are wrong. Never underestimate stupidity.
@@Jimmyjimjimjim Ive been a plumbing apprentice for one year, a few different companies... Bro tell me why the bossman one day tells me to go help dig a site, shows up for 2 min shows where to trench.. I'm talking to the two other guys there... neither of them had a site supervision license, or considered a "competent person" designated to dig a 6 foot trench, 2 feet past the allowed. I realize, suddenly I am the only person there who can fill that position, no one told me the scopes of the job, no one told me anything other than im going to help dig? Now I realize that if an inspector comes... I just happened to be licensed as a site supervisor, they're going to start questioning me about the site, and then I get barred from working the field..? I guess? IDK, but all im saying... whoever dug that, probably was working under the guidance or direction of someone with an actual contractors permit, basically tom sawyered.
Taking advantage of an elderly neighbour. Stand your ground, mam.
what proof do you have it was taking advantage of an elderly?
@@temujinkhan6326 Her being elderly, probably eased any fear they may have had in digging in her yard. But you make a good point as the guilty party may be elderly themselves.
Something like this happened to me with Comcast a few years ago. I don't have cable TV and am not a Comcast customer. My next door neighbor wanted to get cable but the closest box to connect to it was two houses away in the other direction. Comcast wanted to run an underground line through my back yard close to my house. I declined to give them an easement because it was going to be inconveniently located. I wouldn't be able to plant my garden, do any landscaping, extend my deck, or build a shed.
I wasn't home one day and came back with my children to find a bright orange comcast cable line run through all the trees in my back yard, about four feet off the ground and laid across the grass in front of my deck. The installer had even stomped down a fort my kids had built in the woods about 25 feet behind the house.
I called to have it removed because their bright orange wire was an eyesore, made most of my yard unusable, and they had trespassed to put it up through my yard when they didn't have an easement. It was on the ground in my neighbor's yard for just 8 feet, from the shared property line to the house. She was an older single lady with no kids. Comcast kept making appointments to move it. I would stay home to make sure they actually did the work, and they would never show up.
Every time we mowed the yard, we' have to pick up the cable line and mow under it, through the whole back yard. This went on for months. The last straw was when my 9 year old daughter was running up to the deck, forgot about the wire, tripped on it, and faceplanted into the deck. I grabbed a brick and an ax. I walked over to both my property lines, laid the wire across the brick, and chopped it off so it was no longer in my yard. That very day a comcast manager came to my house in his private vehicle.
He asked me where the line was. I told him I chopped it off at the property lines and it was coiled up in my garage if he wanted it back. He started screaming at me and said he could send me to jail for tampering with the cable. I told him to go ahead and try because I had proof I wasn't their customer, had been making appointments for months to have it removed and they never showed up, there was no easement in my yard for utilities or anything else, they'd destroyed my kids' fort when they strung the line through my trees, and I'd sue them on behalf of my daughter who was injured because of all the illegal things they'd done. That guy looked stunned, shut up, and left. I never heard from them again and the cops never came to take me to jail. I guess sometimes it takes an ax to get the proper results.
Good for you! I dealt with the same situation with my pyscho neighbor, dragged on for 3 months, then one night when I was at work they trespassed into my yard and buried a new line for the a$$. Ridiculous red tape to try to pursue it any further.
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The moral of the story is: You get more with a kind word and an axe than you get with a kind word.
You are way more patient than I would have been in that situation. If I came home and discovered that someone had trespassed on my property and done any work without my permission, it would have been immediately cut, torn out, removed, or otherwise removed, and I would have called the police and done a citizens arrest for trespass and had them cited for trespassing/destruction of property.
You should have immediately cut the line instead of waiting until something happened.
Since you waited for something to happen, an accident happened with your daughter that could have been easily prevented.
Of course this being a couple years I hope she had a quick and speedy recovery from face planting her face into your deck.
PS: The second part of that last sentence is sarcasm.
I'm glad she has an attorney. Hope she gets justice.
Taking advantage of older people is wrong.
@Marie_711 Maybe there _is_ an easement that she was unaware of, in which case she's going to look foolish and have a large legal bill and court fees.
@pulaski1 It would be documented. Even city doesn't believe there is an easement
@@pulaski1your wrong NO EASEMENT RUNS THOUGH ANYONE YARD it called a city easement that runs between 2 properties not though a property.
We will definitely need an update.....This is crazy.
We unfortunately probably have to wait months before an update.
OK neighbor, prove to me there's an easement. And show me in the code where you can tie your sewer line into a neighbor's line? Go ahead, show me.
We know it does not exist, that's why no permits were pulled
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No easement, no permit and non-licensed contractor. I say, cut the line at the property line and fill in the trench.
If I lived there, I'd be happy to cross the road and fill it in for her for free. And bill the other owner for my time.
That costs money. The poor thing is on oxygen and said she was at work when it started. Her having to work while disabled tells me she does not have those kinds of funds lying around especially if she just shelled out to fix her own sewer line. Neighbor needs to get a licensed contractor out to fix his mess and stop looking to her yard as a means to get what he wants. She hangs tight she just might end up owning that house next door.
Since the neighbors old, broken line exists, that is where the replacement line should have run. Even if the neighbor is correct about the easement, sewer lines and sewer hook ups require licensed crews and permits. This was the neighbor trying to cut many thousands of dollars off of the cost of a replacement sewer and now their rental house can't be rented because it has no sewer hookup.
As a retired plumber i have never heard of or seen a private pipe easement , only for city or county
It would require an exceptional circumstance. Then one has to ask who is responsible for the shared section... That is a legal nightmare just waiting to ruin lives down the road.
I'm a retired builder in PA and utility easements are very prevalent. They can be for water, sewer, gas or electric and are recorded on the deed to the property.
@@markthebuilder9837 100% 20 years property investing I have seen utilties cut through whole blocks of yards. If they do not have a easment the court will grant one cause its better good of the public. Lots of uniformed people making foolish comments lol Wait till folks figure out almost all homes built after 2006 do not own th rights to the dirt under there feet lol
@markthebuilder9837 do they allow you to tie into the neighbors lines? If so I'll never have a water or sewer bill again! And gas and electric are next!
They do exist. A neighbor of mine has her Septic line run under a county road and into a neighbor's field where their septic field is also on an easement, but it is all properly filed with the county and on the deeds of both properties.
They need to make that lousy neighbor pay plus have to redo her yard back to before.
totally agree with you
Love thy neighbor.....but don't let him crap on you.
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The homeowner is the person who can grant an easement to allow work to be done. She turned them down. Case is clear.
The neighbor " believes" there is an easement? There is or there isn't. Hes trying to take advantage of an old lady.
Wow! Nope that lady sure needs to take them to court! That's just sick!
Have a plumber come in and close that line at her property line
That's exactly what I was thinking...😅
That sounds good but then why should that lady incur the cost of doing so.
There was an order to stop the work. That's why her yard is still dug up and the trench is fenced off. I'm not too sure the sewer line got hooked up.
@@Simplydelicious2You think the house next door doesn't have a sewer hookup? They have already hooked it up, they just didn't fill in the hole.
Show me the ‘easement’ before coming through my yard AND even if there’s an easement, they need to fill that trench!!
If I we're the Homeowner I would ask the city to condemn the property so the neighboring property can't produce rental income.
Without valid permit or licensed plumber, the sewer line is not legal and can be ground for condemning the properly for non-functioning sewer
Oh no! Wrong to connect his sewer to hers. The nerve. 😮
I work for a utility- easement issues come up more than I'd like. Wherever the old sewer line is is where the easement is. The only time an easement runs through the middle of a property is when the owner, not the neighbor, is trying to save a few $$. The owner of the rental house is trying to take advantage of the elderly lady. His lawyer is a POS too, she has zero reason to accept a settlement.
This is just so sad and that contractor needs to brought to justice.
Any easement would show on the property record search, If no easement exists the trespassing neighbor will be held at fault.
That takes some brass nads to dig a trench across someones yard without permits or authorization... Hope they make the neighbor pay biggly.
It’s a shame this should not take so long
you cannot tie that house to her service line. it has to run to the sewer main and be tapped for it-permit and license and inspection required. you cannot get an easement across another property to access the sewer-to a alley and then take it to the main. the neighbor is liable and must have a licensed plumber , with permit-unhook them and redo her line where they tied on to proper code and remove the other houses line to the property line. then start and run it to the city main correctly and the city will then bill that man and wind up taking the house for fines and fees. I hope the lady gets justice!
That neighbor better settle up, it's going to keep getting more expensive.
I hate having to drive 30 minutes to get gas and groceries....but I don't have to deal with that craziness.
I live in a rural area and enjoy the peace and quiet. Very little traffic and see a lot of animals
I'll trade you, 2 mins to gas AND groceries. Semi rural. I just want to be left alone
Happens everywhere.
My neighbor was dumb enough to tell me he took his chainsaw and girdled my tree in our pasture 30 feet inside of our fence because branches would fall off and land in his yard, and he didn’t wanna have to rake the leaves up all the time, and I was just shaking my head.
I mean, I didn’t care about the tree, but he could’ve asked permission before he tried cutting down my damn tree. There’s a reason why there’s four strands of Bob wire between me and him but I didn’t say nothing because we had agreed years before that if I shot a deer or he shot a deer, we could go on each other‘s property at the other end where is not fenced But you gotta be really dumb not to ask permission to cut somebody’s tree down 30 foot fence line behind the fence.
He also had put a bait pile for deer hunting out in my pasture on our land and our horses which ate out there all the time ate his deer Bait got sick and we had to pay a $600 vet bill that just got me where I don’t really wanna talk to him no more .
A senior on oxygen that's just wrong.
so if someone breaks an ankle, who is liable?
You know who...
Her but it's her broken ankle technically
Legally, she would be liable. If I were her, There would be a much more substantial barrier, and the neighbor would be paying for it.
The "plumber" didn't want to deal with the roots from the trees on the edge of the property.
The neighbor screwed up and in the long run he will pay our more money to fix this instead of doing what was right in the first place.
He didnt have proof of an easement he just believes there should be one. I hope she has a good lawyer.
Was there an easement. If that would have been clarified instantly the video would not have been so misleading. No easement messing with neighbors property is illegal. Period.
Not where they dug, in the middle of her yard, no. Easements are usually along property line edges.
In my town every one has to have there own separate sewer line to the street.
It sounds very strange indeed. I had my sewer line replaced a few years ago, the simply dug up the old clay pipes and put the new ones in the same hole. But maybe that is what happens when you hire Mr know-it-all instead of a real plumber? And the neighbor's lawyer is probably as good as her plumber, and didn't want to pay for everything.
Just because it went for YOU in one fashion doesn't mean that's the correct remedy in all others. No consideration of all the details and what would make a sewer pipe work and to code. You apparently enjoy making assumptions based on minimal info.
@@markmalasics3413 So you think running across the neighbor's yard without permission, by an unlicensed guy, is a better choice? And he considered all the details and was to code? Are you nutz???
@@markmalasics3413 "No consideration of all the details and what would make a sewer pipe work and to code." sounds exactly like what the offender did. You apparently enjoy jumping into absurd deductions!
Why in the world did they cut across her yard and connect to her line when all they had to do was go straight back to the main and connect? She should win hands down. Some people are brainless.
Not only does the attorney agree this is wrong on a number of levels, but the CITY did too! That there tells you the other person is so in the wrong. But the denied funds was due to putting an easement where there is NONE to start with. SO no, I would say he needs to fix her back yard and get that the PROPER way. Stop using someone's yard to make an easement where there IS NONE!
Hooray for Mrs. Riddle for standing up for herself!
Any easement would be described on both parcels. If you can show that 'proof', you would not need to 'claim' an easement.
Sooo. He wanted to connect to her. And she pay all the sewer bill? That's what i see.
Have you wondered why companies and individuals are just taking over people's yards, like putting in cable or other nonsense without asking permission?
And the fact most cities and towns are letting them?
It seems to me, that the local governments have stopped pretending that the people own thier propertys and everything belongs to the goverments?
Instead of arguing over the past, why don't she just be like lay your pipe fix my yard and then the problem is solved
I think it's sad that a woman who obviously has serious health issues was still going to work the day this trench was dug. If she'd been retired and home the day they came to dig the trench she could have shut them down before they trashed her yard.
This would make a great judge Judy episode 😭
Eff judge judy! She abandoned Byrd to get her new show and forgot about all the people who worked for her for more money. Some judge!!
She should have just said no, there's no way to connect the sewer line that way..
Sewers should never be combined into one line. If one property plugs the line everything is going into the other properties basement. We had a plumber do the same thing to my folks business. Even though he knew it was against regulations he did it anyway. Solution was he dug it up, fix it correctly all at his expense.
I'm so glad I have well and septic.
Not about u
Never trust your neighbor!
What a nice neighbor to have. (not ) What a schesiter. He is a crook and taking advantage of a elderly woman. SHAME on him. I hope justice prevails.
There's a reason that "plumber" is not licensed.
Believing doesn’t make it true.🙂
Where is the local government
They shut it down. Watch the video again
Wow poor lady!
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"I believe" is not a legal argument. You need facts to prove your point. Such as the county's easement documents. Otherwise pound sand mf.
what kinda what's yours is mine mentally is this..👀
That's terrible
That lady needs to have friends to help her out some know what i mean !
Why is this on the news?
Criminal trespassing charges for the worker and owner who probably also went on her yard.
This seems pretty straight forward to me. Any bettors on how this will go in court?
Yea the black woman will lose because the owner of the other property is white. You're talking about Tennessee! When has any black person received justice in a a racist state!!
This is so embarrassingly pathetic, it’s worse than shameful.
If you alter the original drainage plan of the development, you could be liable. If you alter drainage to only affect your property, not ghe development, no.
I'm thinking a judge should award Miss Riddle her neighbor's property.
Normally I would say anyone has the right to do what they want on their own property but a trench is a public hazard and nuisance...
Let's be real that yard isn't exactly being "enjoyed". That doesn't give the neighbour the right to trespass though.
Did I hear correctly ? Was the un-permitted sewer line requested by a tenant, not the property owner? I would think the property owner is the only one who can contract for a new sewer line to be put in. Now the property owner of the rental house AND the lady whose yard was torn up BOTH have a case against the tenant and the unlicensed plumber.
Thongs change scent from one end to the other. Knowledge is power. God bless
Stay strong and keep fighting Mrs Riddle!
DON'T let them bully you into taking a lowball settlement.
And despite the mess: have a merry Christmas!
Clean outs don’t connect you to the sewer. That’s a lateral, clean out is for you to snake/clean out your lateral.
And it seems no one understands what an easement is. Damn
That is some audacity to just do that. Id take nothing less thsn the neighbors entire property as compensation
Unbelievable.
Easements are on the agreement that they don't damage the property
Why can’t we all just get along?
lol
Well it's cheaper and she's at work, so go ahead
Exactly and she’s old so I can scam her
Courtacy was EXPECTED when I was coming up, these days Deciency is ILLUSIVE. SHAME ON THESE PEOPLE!!!!!
Rent a backhoe from home depot. . Trench filled in, sewer destroyed on her property.!!! Problem solved.
well, the reporter could have easily gone down to the county clerks office and looked to see if such an easement exists. Not only easy, but free. That would have been reporting. What we got here is the "he said, she said" version. Which is gossip, frankly.
Don't you have inspections,have it removed.
Poor Lady, hope she is properly compensated
if I was her, I would pay for a company to backfill the trench and add that cost to the lawsuit. That is a reasonable cost btw
I always thought it was funny the land of the free was always one of the most tyrannical.
I wonder if the neighbor would still be ok with things if the situation were reversed? I doubt it.
My waterline goes under our next-door neighbors two driveways
If there really is an easement going between the properties, then this man would have to let this woman know that there is an easement and he would have to show proof, you can’t just go by word-of-mouth. If there is an easement then, yes he is correct. He has the right to use that easement for such purposes. The issue I have with the story is that if this man and his attorney absolutely knows there is an easement on the property they would have never offered a settlement to this for damages. I think the neighbor is full of crap and I think his lawyer is trying to buy him time so they can try to find a loophole in the system. If this neighbor wants the problem to go away, then he has to offer a settlement that will definitely cover all damages and the way to do that is to ask the female neighbor to give him a receipt from a contracting company that shows exactly how much this would cost to put her yard back together again. People can’t come up with a number and think it’s going to be acceptable.
HE HAS TO GET AN EASEMENT FROM THE OWNERS. PLUS YOU DON'T ATTACH YOUR SEWER PIPE TO ANOTHER PERSON SEWER PIPE. YOU HAVE TO TAP THE MAIN. AND STOP HIRING UNLICENSED WORKERS.
If I was the neighbor I would offer to fix the yard. Have a landscaper come in level the yard sod the yard make it perfect and pay her water bill for the summer. If that didn’t make her happy then she is just looking for a payday then fight it out in court.
Unfortunately at this point she is going to demand legal fees and should be able to do so. She had to pay a lawyer to get the stop order done and she is likely demanding that they remove the connection to her line as well using a licensed plumber.
Can you level that in a couple hours with backhoe?
At whos expense?
@unusualfire If it was me, I would pay it. Get it done cheaply because it's just a quick fill. It's really an hour job.... But then I would also sue them if necessary...
U want to settle thid fast dig the line up about 2 ft on your property and plug it with a plumbing plug they will settle fast
couldn’t they have just avoided this whole situation by simply backfilling the trench,Layin some sod down and express some appreciation?
All this so the renters can keep the rent flowing in.
Citys fault and the lady looks like a crook someone is trying to make decent rental and you deny and are out for free money
If accusations are true, the judge will deal with it. Why an article when the courts are already involve? The article is not going to speed up the court process. Whats done is done and they will take their time dealing with it in the court system.
It's local news reporting on local events, they have to fill the local news time with local stuff.
The local courts should have had this dealt with within a week. the news is that it has taken way too long. She is being denied use of her property, she will never get that denied use back, the clock,is ticking.
How will you like it if someone stole your car, you find your car, but the cops and courts drag their feet for weeks in getting the car returned to you?
No easement
Wow!!!!
WTF?!
1:42 "Wilfully" Really? Y'all don't have a spellcheck at WATE6? Willfully ignorant, if you ask me.
By the looks they will be putting miss Riddle in the trench before the sewer line!
That's evidence
....Tying into the lines is about city life and not having your own space....Doesnt matter whether you like it. The neighbors house cant be denied sewer access.....Move to the country, get a septic system🤷🏼♂️
Complaining about it has left a trench in your yard for almost a year. Could have been done a long time ago. Pipe is going in that trench for sure
You can’t do that!!!!….🦋🦋🦋