My mum lives on a rural no through road with just three houses on it with ½ a km between each house. Through IHT planning my mum, brother and I own the house. My brother lives with my mum.
My mum and brother are quite apathetic, and not proactive at all, whereas I will deal with things head on.
After 30 years the house next door got sold. Within a week a new sign appeared and got screwed to the tree at the end of our drive directing people to the house next door (a half a km along the lane). We have a stone house sign at the end of the drive for our house.
I removed the new neighbour's sign.
Within two hours the new neighbour drove up to my mum’s and asked my brother if he owned the (our) house, if he owned the drive and if he owned the field adjacent to it (effectively trying to determine if we owned the tree I guess). He then proceeded to correct my brother in the pronunciation of our family surname (they are South African and we have Dutch heritage) and insinuated that he privately educated his own children and that we had no money.
The new neighbour then went on to forcefully suggest that a dual house sign be put up at the bottom of our drive directing people to our house and respectively his. The issue is that the postcode lands on our house, but services the whole lane. The new neighbour only directs his friends to his ‘new’ house by giving them the postcode, so my mum, who’s in her mid seventies now, is regularly getting people coming up to the wrong address.
My brother politely pointed out to the new neighbour that my family had been there for the best part of 50 years and have never needed to have such a sign erected, and that the new neighbour should be more precise about directing people to his house.
I live with my husband and two children, but visit my mum most days. A new sign appeared two days ago (as a result of another incorrect visitor) with a printout slipped into a plastic wallet, which was then screwed into the tree four times. The wind had blown it about, and it had folded over and just looed like rubbish attached to the tree.
I told my mum and brother I would removed it. They said not to because it would cause another 'scene'.
My worry is that if the sign is not removed the new neighbour will take this as acceptance and it will become the status quo and the next thing will be a permanent sign. My feeling is that you wouldn’t put your own house sign in front of someone else’s property over half a kilometre way. I feel like putting up a sign outside his house and saying that ‘This is not xxx’.
Am I being unreasonable??
Should i ask him to refrain from putting up these signs?