lawyers/neighbor/noise/Townhome associations, Baned from all auto activity Options

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My neighbor launched a lawsuit naming me and my association as defendants, the suit is based on noise from my garage. This is a condo/Townhome and we are attached. The short story is she hired the biggest law firm who enlisted a sound specialist to study the noise. This was a huge dog and pony show in there there sound specialist had recorded 3 weeks of sounds, in short my garage is now off limits to anything but parking. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) I suspect she put out between 5 and 7 thousand dollars to whip this together.
P.S. Its not over till the fat lady sings, however I wont spend a cent on lawyers.. The noises that made the cut were all from making parts, cutting, grinding and hammering. I'll just have to make the parts somewhere else, however I wont stop tinkering and didn't spend a cent.

This brat is gearing up to do a sound study based on household noise, she says we wake her up every night, so I suspect there will be a round two.. I would guess its going to be a much harder sell for her to get traction with this issue..

I hate condos x infinity but its made me 500K in the last 10 years but will be replaced by a farmhouse home in Washington state some time soon..

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Yep... total PITA is what HOA's etc are... of course then you have my situation.

I specifically built in an area where the HOA rules were expired and there are minimal laws etc... we live in a township...no city government blah blah.

All is fine and dandy until your asshat neighbor decides that he will buy his idiot of a 16 year old the loudest freakin ATV ever made. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) which he insists on riding on a 1/3 to 1/2 acre lot. (think going around and around in a circle basically).

It is so freaking loud that it shakes my windows at times... you can't even hear the TV with the windows closed.

Of course we asked nicely...several times... to have him take it elsewhere and they basically told us to STFU and live with it.

Over the summer I invested over 25K in my backyard to put in a pool and major landscaping to further my enjoyment of my property and now I can't even stand to be out there when he is riding that thing.

I tried to go through the proper channels... township trustees etc... they were more interested in futhering thier own agenda than actually helping. I have called the Sheriff etc... no help there as there are no noise laws (hmmm circular arguement here).

Sooo... if I want to enjoy my yard again I am basically going to have to sue the bastards (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I don't want to do it but I feel like I have no choice.

It does not sound like your nieghbor tried to work things out with you as we have... thats unfortunate. I completely believe that people are waaaay to quick to get the lawyers involved these days and your situation sounds as if you just have a PITA of a neighbor. Sorry for your situation.