I bought one half of a duplex and in the other half of the duplex, there was a caron that

made my life a nightmare until I thought of a way to permanently solve my problem.

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My husband and I are in our late 30s and child free. We've been saving up for almost a decade

to move to a tropical paradise. About two years ago, we bit the bullet and moved to our dream location.

Housing is super expensive, like Hawaii prices, so all we could afford was half of a duplex.

It is beautiful and on the water, with the place for our boat, unfortunately,

Karen, Billy Bob, the boyfriend, and her three gremlins live in the other unit of the duplex.

Chapter one, the setup. There is some period of time we just went for a week here and there,

but we live here full time now. The entire duplex was owned by an older gentleman who rented out

both sides. The sides do not match at all. One side is a five bedroom three bath and the other

side of the duplex is a two bedroom one bath. We bought the five bedroom one. On our side of

the property, we have about 90% of the backyard, a gazebo, and dockage, about 150 feet since it's

on a corner. The other side has a small backyard patio and maybe 15 feet of dockage. The rental

leases say the renters are entitled to their specific backyards, but there were no fences or anything,

so all the renters shared the entire backyard. After we bought the house, Karen immediately tried

to throw her weight around that they expected to continue with that privilege. I told her that if she

asked politely, we would try to accommodate her. She thought this meant that she could use our

backyard whenever she wanted. Chapter two. One day, my husband and I are enjoying some drinks

outside when a delivery truck shows up to set up a giant blow-up thing in our backyard. I asked

Karen what she thought she was doing and she said it was her kid's birthday. Then she said she

had the gall to say it was a family and friends only event, so we had to stay inside our house

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