mrsdavidcaruso I never posted about it directly on here because it was drawing to an end by the time I joined MN and even if I was a member I probably wouldn't have posted about it while it was happening.
That's just me.
I did offer commiserations to someone else in a similar position later. Partly because I seriously wondered whether my neighbour-from-hell had moved next door to her because it seemed so familiar.
I did a link earlier. I namechanged because at the time my neighbour still scared me 
Anyway, I wrote a post in reply to the people who'd joked about her sleeping with the fishes but deleted it because it got really long and by the time I'd finished it seemed like a self-indulgent hi-jack.
But I'm going to reinstate it because you've asked and it's free therapy
Hope you don't mind.
All the best of luck in the world. It sounds like you'll be all right. You certainly seem to be doing the right things. Here it is...
I fantasised about her violent death so many times, but I let her live and she has moved and is no doubt making some other poor cow's life a misery.
It was a boundary dispute over my garden and what she claimed was her right to access to some of the rest of our property.
It's why I was banging on about adverse possession earlier on because that became part of the dispute. I became intimately acquainted with the rules and would recite them as a magic talisman to try to make myself feel better when things seemed black.
We won it; and looking back, it always seemed likely that we would. But these people cause such misery and doubt. So you don't need anyone raising more doubt.
We spent a lot of money and a lot of time talking about this mad bitch and her mad cunt of a husband who was the secondary mover. I strongly suspect they met in the same mental institution. And if anyone wants to pull me up on any of that: forget it.
If we'd have lost, our house might have been unsaleable, or only at a massive discount. Or we'd have been trapped here and have to put up with her sticking two fingers up at us every day, and she'd have done that and taken pleasure in it.
Outwardly she and her husband were really respectable. Not your Shameless/Benefits Street stereotypes. That's why the builder and surveyor believed her. Why wouldn't they? They were just doing a job. Why would anyone lie about such a thing?
And yes, chasedbybees, they did apologise. But when I'd calmed down, I realised they didn't really have much to apologise for. As far as they were concerned it was a legitimate job.
Their visit was partly her using them to harass us but also partly because in her addled brain it strengthened her case to show that she wanted to make improvements that we didn't plan to make.
In a way I admire her elan. Most neighbours-from-hell can only think of bombarding you with pizzas and minicabs
When it was over, one neighbour told me something that had been said and apologised to me for believing it. But I can't blame her because it seemed plausible and she was too embarrassed to ask us the truth.
One of the things I've learned is that if you have good neighbours, even if they annoy you a little bit, hug them tight and pray they never leave
The other thing is get a good solicitor and listen to him or her, not anyone else.
The last one is that there are a lot of these people about 
Sorry for the hi-jack OP. It's been five years since she fucked off and I don't think I'll ever get over it, so please understand.
Yours sounds more a chancer than screwy. It sounds like you're going to be all right.
Please update. I love these threads. It's therapy for me for me whenever someone like you wins.