Issue with estate agent board and difficult neighbour

[dvorak]

So, I have a very difficult neighbour. She's made complaints about 5 of the families in our street. I suspect the complaints were tacitly racist. (All the families she's complained about are Asian but the street is very mixed so I feel it's quite pointed.) One of the complaints was a malicious accusation of child abuse (thankfully quickly rejected as spurious).
So far she's not complained about us. But she's pretty peeved we didn't support her boundary dispute with another neighbour. ("You all stick together")
Anyway, it's school fete season so I agreed to have an estate agent board to advertise it. Will be there 2 weeks max. It's the done thing in our area.
It was put on my side of the boundary fence. And is really not intrusive. No garish colours and its A3 size.
I just saw her taking a photo of it. Went out to chat to her to see if there was a problem. She shut the front door. I knocked on. No answer.
So. AIBU to feel she's being a petty, mean spirited, unneighbourly neighbour? And AIBU to suspect she's just gunning for a fight that life is too short to bother with? Are some people only happy when they are angry about something unimportant?

TBH you are very antisocial to do this.

They are all over at the moment. They really pisses me off, it is unnecessary. Our road is cluttered with them, they are garish and awful. We live in a conservation area and it looks like a motorway services at the moment.

Well if you think she’s going to complain anyway, you might get in there first and ask her why she was taking photos of your property, and that you knocked to ask her to delete them as you’ve not given her permission :-)

Nah I’m kidding. That would just escalate things :-)

Our neighbours downstairs from us (we are in a marionette) is like this, she is never happy inspire if the fact we are good neighbours-she reported is to the council when a storm wrecked our old fence and we didn’t have one up for a while (not on her boundary) funnily enoughbthe man from the council came as we were installing the new fence and I asked him to record it as s malicious complaint as she also claimed we had rats (we don’t) some people just love wars!

Some people are never happy without a battle - drama llamas, mainly. The fact that she wouldn't talk to you face to face about it speaks volumes to me.

Having said that, if there are any regulations about advertising she may be successful - but it will probably take longer than the board needs to be up for to get anything done!

Maybe she was just taking a picture of the ADVERT that you have on your property because she wants to attend?

If you don't won't people taking pictures then don't put adverts up on your property.

Given you know she can complain I would have ensured the board was away from her property. So far though she hasn’t actually approached you.

Oh and I disagreed that advertising a community event at a school (that raises money and benefits the children of that school) is anti-social. It’s about as fluffy as advertising gets :-)

Just let her get on with it. Unless you've done wrong, there's nothing she can do.

Sounds like you are the one looking for trouble knocking on the door after she took the photo to be honest.

So what if she took a picture. If she’s going to complain, wait for the complaint to come, it might not happen. She probably just did it to wind you up, rise above it. You are the one instigating conflict here.

She shouldn’t have a complaint, and the person upthread who thinks it’s unreasonable and garish - wtf!? It’s two weeks, if it’s anything like our village event the estate agents boards generate valuable funds for the school. I’m in a picture post card village and there is a waiting list because so many people have volunteered to have a board up. Is it really that difficult to cope with their being a few extra for sale boards around for a couple of weeks a year?

Handpicked does it bother you that much? They are all over my area too. Doesn't bother me one jot. I live in a "naice" area, and I think it shows community spirit, rather than bringing the area down. Plus it's actually a huge chunk of money for the schools, which they desperately need right now, as you know.

Who is she going to complain to?

You are within your rights to mount anything on your own land which does not overhang a neighbour's property up to 1.8M high.