Re: Neighbor Harrasement

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Buy a video camera and leave it filming out a window, to
capture images of him trespassing, then bring that to the
police.

On 7/06/03, Sylvia Alvarez wrote:
> I have lived in our house for 6 years. Recently a new
> person moved in next to our neighbor behind us. The new
> owner came over and told us that our dog woke him up at
> 5:30 am. And that our other dog also barked and woke him
> up. Our dogs are not out that early in the morning, as we
> don't get up that early either. I was polite saying thank
> you for letting us know. We will try to keep them queit,
> but we cannot control if someone walks by our house, since
> we live on the corner. Two weeks went by and we have been
> letting our dogs out between 7-8am (back yard) on July 4th
> the neighbor came over at 8:00am and said our dog woke him
> up at 6:30am. We explained to him we didn't get up until
> 7:00. We asked him if the fireworks and the late night
teen
> parties wake him up he says he doesn't hear that. We
> explained to him we are in the city ordinance, and that
our
> dogs only bark if soemone comes up to the door or walks by
> the house just as any other dogs do as warning to us.
They
> do not bark for hours. We mentioned to him that we are not
> going to work around his sleeping schedule and that he
> needs to move to the country if this bothers him. My
> question is what rights do we have? He has been seen by a
> neighbor on our property while we are at work, he walks up
> to the gate where the dog is and of course she does not
> know him so she barks. Can we file trespassing claim
> agianst him? Our surrounding neighbors are willing to
> write letters on our behalf that our dogs do not bark all
> day, only if someone comes on the property. Please advice
> us if thier is anything we can do. Can we file
restraining
> orders on him? If anyone hase expierenced this
> I would love to hear from you. Hollister Ca