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

[drive-ability]

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..

[race914]

Okay, you hit my hot button! We have some great neighbors too. NOT

First encounter was about my 'reving my cars up' all the time. This was only after they SAW the 914s sitting in the driveway. Both our cars are quiet (under 92db so we can run Laguna). After the compliant, I had to show them that the engine was out of the car and apart and whatever they were hearing was not me. But afterall, the 914s have numbers on them so they must be loud right? I should have know this was coming after they were very curious when we moved in about 'what kind of trailer is that? Doesn't look like a horse trailer'???

Anyway, this unfounded complaint let me know that for whatever reason they were trying to 'pin something on us'.

Next encounter was 'your dogs bark all the time'. Only problem with that one was, the dates they specified we weren't home and the dogs were at the kennel. So again, if they actually heard something it wasn't us. Plus when we are home the dogs are in the garage at night, not outside.

We've since learned that those neighbors are the self appointed 'lords of the street', watch everybody, and turn anyone in that doesn't 'meet their standards'. Too bad they accuse before they actually know what's going on.

After knowing that, I fixed their Snoop visits by telling them my German Shepherd bites (which he doesn't) so they are afraid to come into my yard anymore... That was after I caught them in my yard, and when confronted they said "we heard your dogs kill cats so we're here to see what's going on". What nosey jerks... If I walked into their yard and started looking around, they'd freak. But it evidently ok for them to do it.

Funniest thing for me is, 1 ) their 16 year old is the wreckless driver of the neighborhood! Always speeding, showing off, etc. Just waiting for someone to turn him in : ) or for him to crash. Won't be me. I staying neutral on this one and will let some non-car person take care of it. and 2) they run leaf blowers all the time which are really obnoxious. Even saw them running a leaf blower down a dirt trail the other day? Don't want any leaves on your dirt road! So I guess making alot of noise is OK for the goose, but isn't OK for the gander. Or something like that.

Did I mention we are on 2 acre lots and this isn't my next door neighbor but the one on the other side of my next door neighbor??? My neighbor 'loves' these people too..

Good luck with your neighbor, I agree with your strategy, let her burn lots of $ and just work around it. She'll run out of $ or interest at some point.