After saving for many years, I bought my first house. Unfortunately, I was not told that the next door neighbor was so unstable. It turns out I am the fifth owner in 10 years because of this neighbor. What does he/she do? Well, to start with he has property line issues. He thinks his property goes beyond the buried metal rod property marker. So he comes onto my property and vandalizes my garden beds, my sprinkler heads, my trees, etc. In addition, he parks his car in front of my house, blows his leaves onto and in front of my property, puts his trash bins in front of my house, throws tree branches on my grass and on my driveway. He even encourages his kids and grandkids to do the same, as I have seen the same behavior from them. There has been alot more harassment, but what I have mentioned gives you a flavor of the situation. Nothing I have done has incited this. The wife is very submissive to the husband and seems to myself and the neighbors to have a fews screws loose as well. Tried talking to her but that didn't work.
I have asked him nicely if he could park his SUV in front of his own house and his response is that he can park his SUV anywhere he wants and he has always parked his car in front of my home. I have chosen not to directly confront him on any of the other issues because he seems unstable and I am a single woman living alone. I have documented his behavior with pictures and security camera movies and given the information to the police and they said that there was nothing they could do as the camera footage was not clear enough and the they didn't see him actually doing the action from my pictures. The advice I have been given by the police is to get a large sized boyfriend, so they are not very helpful. They also say that if the neighbor lived next to them it would stop immediately and insinuate that they would do something illegal to get it to stop. But I am not going down that road. The owners association will not help with this either. I really can't afford to hire a lawyer to start a civil suit.
I have so many friends in the neighborhood and love my home. It just doesn't seem right that this nasty neighbor can get away with this behavior. Does anyone have an educated legal advice on this issue? I live in Virginia.
Nice Neighbor

