Neighbors trampoline
Trampolines are on many insurers list of worst things ever. You could be a good neighbor and live with it (Hell get your own small one and when they are jumping you go jump and make weird faces at them) or you can find out who insures them and rat them out. Their premiums will go through the roof and problem solved. It’s a horrible thing to say but in this day an age we are forgetting how to live with and among each other. I had neighbors who son shot every ball imaginable over our fence. He broke pottery, lanterns, balls got stuck in my pergola. Then he discovered girls a few years later and no more balls. This too shall pass. Good luck.
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Guest User | 5 years and 10 months ago
My neighbors on Tompkins Place put up a huge trampoline 20 feet long and goes 5’ over my fence. Their boys are out there all day long and that is now our view out the window. Plus the noise. They already cut down the huge trees in their backyard when they bought the place to make a backyard gym. Super sucks. Any advice?
RobertGMarvin
in General Discussion 5 years and 10 months ago
Did you really mean 5′ [FEET] rather than 5″ [INCHES]? The former is outrageous, the latter MIGHT not be IF they got your permission.
Guest User | 5 years and 10 months ago
Yes five feet
Guest User | 5 years and 10 months ago
Yes five feet
RobertGMarvin
in General Discussion 5 years and 10 months ago
Five feet over your property line?
mozeeatupu | 5 years and 10 months ago
I think 5 feet above the fence.
Nothing you can do, people have the right to do almost anything they want in their yard.
daveinbedstuy | 5 years and 10 months ago
Nothing you can do about what they do in their yard. The kids will eventually get tired of it.
brokelin | 5 years and 10 months ago
More likely, there’ll be a broken bone or other injury sooner. Not that that will necessarily stop the use of it – there’s a great lack of common sense in some parents. The kids could wise up, though, once they see what can happen.
I’d look into the legality of whether the protrusion over your property is legal – it likely isn’t, and you may be able to get them to remove it via legal means. If you can let their insurance provider know it is there, if you can figure out who it is, that might help, as the insurer might have an issue with a trampoline being in their yard. If they remove it, then you should put up a tall fence, so they can’t put something else over your property line.
panda10 | 5 years and 9 months ago
I don’t think there is much you can do but I don’t agree there is “nothing” you can do. You can sue you’re neighbors for nuisance but a claim in NYC is difficult at best. You need to talk to a lawyer and be prepared to pay bc this is not a contingency type case (usually claimants look for injunctive relief and not monetary so no incentive to take a case on contingency). Noise is hard but maybe light. Let’s say your neighbor erected a giant sail in their backyard b/c the miss their time on the ocean and the sail is so large that it blocks all sunlight to your yard. That is a possible nuisance case. Good luck.
Guest User | 5 years and 9 months ago
Thank you for your support. I think the homeowner is a lawyer so we feel stuck.
Guest User | 5 years and 9 months ago
Thank you for your support. I think the homeowner is a lawyer so we feel stuck.
brokelin | 5 years and 9 months ago
I wouldn’t assume that…
brokelin | 5 years and 9 months ago
I’m nota clear clear if it is “above” the fence, or “past” the fence over your yard. If the former, you could put up a taller fence perhaps, or plant fast-growing greenery to block the trampoline from you view. If the latter, have you tried talking to your neighbor about it?
hkapstein | 5 years and 9 months ago
I am also confused about how the trampoline goes 5′ over the fence. Is it 11 feet tall? That would be insane. Perhaps there’s netting around it that goes up that high? It doesn’t sound like it’s on the OP’s property, in that case it would be clear how to handle it. I think your best option is to talk to the neighbor and see if they might work with you on this. You could put up a stink, but in the end I don’t see why they wouldnt be allowed to have a trampoline on their property.
Guest User | 5 years and 9 months ago
The trampoline is 12’-15’feet high. It is something meant to be in big back yards! Yes thinking of building a high fence attachment but I have to get my next door neighbors on board because it effects us both. The option of talking to the neighbors with the trampoline is slim because they don’t seem to care. As I mentioned they cut down several old large trees, so I feel we are stuck .
hkapstein | 5 years and 9 months ago
Can we at least get a picture of this massive trampoline?
mozeeatupu | 5 years and 9 months ago
> The option of talking to the neighbors with the trampoline is slim because they don’t seem to care
How can they care about something they’re not aware of? Are they supposed to sense your issues?
brokelin | 5 years and 9 months ago
From your first post, I thought the trampoline was above your yard. From you latest, it sound like it is just TALLER than your fence , but completely IN their yard – so not OVER your yard, as you originally wrote. But your answer is not clear on this, as you state you need to get your neighbors onboard to extend your fence higher – could you answer the question clearly as to which direction the trampoline protrudes 5 feet?
I’m not sure why you would need your next door neighbors to be on board with extending your fence. If you talking about different neighbors than the ones with the trampoline, as it sounds like you might be, why would what you do in your yard affect them? You can block your view – whether they have a view of the trampoline that they want to block is up to them, no? Or is the trampoline actually on on the property behind your next door neighbor’s property and not behind yours? Or, does the neighbor with the trampoline have a wider lot so that it is behind both your properties? Still, can’t see why you couldn’t block your view.
Is there some r ule about how tall a fence can be? I’m guessing there likely is. Have you looked into that? You don’t want to spend money building a fence that would be in violation of that law. You need to find out how tall a fence can be, and then figure out if a fence within the legal limit would solve your problem. That is why greenery might be your best best – there’s no restriction on how tall trees can grow.
Alternatively, if there is a restriction on how tall a fence can be, and the trampoline is taller than that, perhaps there is also a restriction on how tall something else can be in a yard near the property line that is like a fence (as netting or the tall bars of a trampoline might be).
hkapstein | 5 years and 9 months ago
A fence is anchored in the ground, but the trampoline most likely is not, and I believe that distinction impacts whether it is would require a building permit. However, it would appear that there is nothing stopping you from constructing a larger, more imposing trampoline.