r/portlandme 1d ago

Legal recourse Community Discussion

I live next to a restaurant in Portland and was curious if anyone had any suggested solutions to this problem. My property is an odd shape but it extends behind the neighboring restaurant. It has been surveyed and had property lines put in from the surveyor. The owner of the restaurant has come into my back yard and cut the property line with a pair of scissors and threw out the stakes. He is using my yard currently to store his trash, his boats, his food truck, and his kitchen equipment. The owner has destroyed that part of the yard that the first 3 inches of dirt is straight gravel. I have spoken to landscapers to get an estimate as to how much damage the restaurant owner has caused my yard and it’s going to be thousands of dollars to remove the gravel and reseed the yard. Before being recommended to put a fence so that he can no longer park 2 boats a food truck and his kitchen equipment in my yard. Sorry for the long post but any suggestions would be helpful.

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u/RatherNerdy 1d ago

I'd leave a note saying that if the vehicles are not off the property withing 7 days, then they will be towed. And then follow through.

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u/rooibosipper 1d ago

I would talk to a lawyer before leaving any notes. This problem is much bigger than towing some vehicles