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Neighbors Contractors Are Blocking My Driveway During Their Construction. Neighbor Has An Easement That Allows For Ingress And Egress Only. Should We Call The Sheriff To Take Action? Or What’s Your Legal Advice?

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Location: Oregon, rural area. We have talked to the contractor. He told us he’ll do whatever the f he needs to do. Including parking, off loading from our paved driveway that leads to their gravel drive, blocking our driveway while he does so. We have talked to the neighbor who is acting as her own General contractor. She basically is ignoring our requests and is “so sorry.” One of their subs already ran over our well head and caused $10K in damage. We have an attorney working on suing the neighbor to have them repay us. He looked at the easement which is from 1980 on a standard Stevens-Ness form. He says easement has no teeth - there are no agreed upon consequences for neighbor’s violation of the easement.

So, I’m looking for suggestions. I’m considering setting up webcams to document the situation, calling Sheriff to document, proposing a high fee for usage that would be acceptable to us (would mean they’d give me notice and I’d be parking my nice car on the side of the one-lane rural street 50yds away instead of in my garage while heavy equipment is driving by), social media/reviews, separately sue neighbor in small claims court for violation of the easement.

UPDATE: Met on site with our neighbors (the “general contractor”) and spoke to their previously mouthy sub-contractor. He behaved himself (imagine how the schoolyard bully acts in the Principal’s office). They asked for a temporary construction easement that they’d pay for. We told them we can talk about that after we are “whole” on the well situation. So, some positives!

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