The city I live in, back in the '40's my grandfather (dad's dad) owned a whole bunch of land, a big chunk of which was about 2 city blocks long, and whoever surveyed that property was drunk, plain and simple. Picture 5 houses on 1/3 acres equally spaced. From east to west lived some nice folks, my dad's sister & husband, our house, my dad's brother & wife, and my grandparents. The house numbers in east to west order were 2364, 2368, 2374, 2498-?- and 2508... ?? So, the address numbers of hese homes increase by 4, 6, 6, 124, and 10... 124? That's over a city block! To add to the nonsense, about 20 years ago a doctors office complex was built just east of the 2364-5th house, and it's access street is numbered 2400 West, based on newer surveys. So from this street the house numbers go BACKWARDS until my uncles 2498 address... To this day they're still fixing the address numbers along those 2 blocks. AND the property lines of those 5 homes.
And don't get me started on fences
This was my last house, the day I moved in in 1982,
house 1982.jpg
-and, as we were prepping to sell it in 2006, 24 years later...
house 2006.jpg
--notice the yellow arrows, they point to a PERMANENT fence, put up by the homeowners above, before I ever moved in. It's actually a chainlink fence, but it's 'permanent' based of the fact the concrete footing holding it up extends 40" above the ground, 48" below ground and is 10" wide. The footing itself makes it 'permanent' even without the chainlink...
The problem? The fence is at a minimum, 6' within their property line, and that distance only gets larger as the fence follows the flat ground closer to their home. Before we moved we were about to sue to take the land on our side of the fence thru adverse possession. Why? Because the neighbors above (not the original owners) thought that because part of the land on the other side of the fence was theirs, they could use that land as their #%$#*@& garbage dump! They'd throw lawn clippings and trimmed tree branches over the fence regularly! Look at that hill-- guess where all that crap ended up? We had words many times over than nonsense. But we sold the house before it got to court...