another problem neighbor problem -- wwyd?

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12. Like someone else

said, I'm also concerned about your animals, and what this psycho could do to them.

First thing I would do...actually have done already...is to install security cameras around the premises. I have decent neighbors who also live far enough away (closest house is maybe 1,000 feet away) so that's not a problem. We have cameras mainly to watch animals that wander into the yard, and strangers.


Night Owl is a pretty good system. We can see up to 8 areas on a monitor with the ability to switch between 2 more scenes inside the house. Also, we can access them via smartphone when we're away from home to see what's going on here. And the dvr will record everything and keep the evidence up to 30 days. I LOVE it. So that's 10 cameras with Night Owl, and then there are 2 more with a Foscam system. Not to mention motion lights and alarms. Not really expensive, and it's something you can start off small and keep adding to.

As for your mailbox...out here in the sticks some people have their rural mailboxes ruined by kids with bats, and snowplows, and people hitting them when there's ice on the roads. Some homeowners build a sort of "pillar" out of concrete and then set the mailbox inside. Immovable. Un-bashable.

For the unauthorized lawn mowing, I would put up some small hedges...or, if things were really bad, I would definitely consider a section of stockade fencing. Locks on all fences and gates.