How to shut up a problem neighbour?

[RB Will]

I co own a house with my father, bought about 2 years ago that he and my mother were due to live in. They have since separated and now my father needs the money from his chunk of the house to sort divorce etc.
So we have the house for sale.
Never really got on well with the neighbour who is a 50 something retired nothing better to do type who since my parents moved in has been banging on and sometimes getting quite nasty about what he thinks is a border dispute.
Its literally a triangle of land (our side of the dividing fence which has been up about 20 years) total area abut 5sq m about all you could do with it is grow a row of beans FFS!

The land registry says its our land and in the house documents there is mention of a previous border dispute as concluded in 2000.

Now we are trying to sell the guy is being a real asshat and has put a sign up in his front garden near to our for sale sign stating there is a border dispute and every time the estate agent has brought someone round to view he has been outside shouting his mouth off about the bloody border dispute.

Is he allowed to do this? is there any way of legally making him take his sign down and shut up about it? Nobody wants to buy a nice house next to an annoying prick of a neighbour and the longer this drags on the longer the bloody divorce drags on.

[RB Will]

Hooli said:

Kill him, mince his corpse, make his corpse into sausages, freeze the sausages & hammer them into his lawn.

hmm I do have a friendly butcher

[RB Will]

The solicitor did joke about offering to buy it off him for £10k per acre which works out at about £2.50.
Maybe make the offer to him that if he wants to pay for the fence to be taken down, concrete removed then reinstalled 1 ft to the right he can have it.

[RB Will]

paintman said:

What were the facts and resolution of the previous dispute?

I can only assume the resolution was how we think it is as shown on the land registry. We only have a note that there was a dispute (the neighbour confirmed this is what it was about) and that it concluded in 2000, 12 years before we bought the house.
Where/ how would I go about getting the actual report?

[RB Will]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

hornetrider said:

This thread needs pics (or preferably, a childish sketchup in MS Paint). It is a Friday afternoon, after all.

If it helps.


The Red bit is the disputed area.

I dont have the land registry pic to hand but its pretty much as you have put it except with mine and the neighbours houses the other way around. He thinks he owns a sliver of the side of my land like that