02/08/15
Tim Johnson,
204 Oakwood Drive, Matthews NC 28104,
After much
consideration of the ongoing issues that you seem to have with all of us that
back up to “your” Union Rd. property, I have decided to write this letter to
you for several reasons. The first being
that it is hard to finish a sentence with you because you like to interrupt the
conversation many times and the second being I do not want my words to be
exaggerated or twisted in any manner, so with a written record that will be
harder for you to do.
There used
to be natural woods behind our property that my dad loved to sit and watch. Now
there is nothing but a junk yard that is a constant eye sore to us all. The property values were already low but with
that eyesore it is even lower. By
design? I don’t know… But I will tell
you this; I am not selling this property although I may rent it out
someday. Also Dad may have liked to
watch you work as you said but he was always hoping you’d clean that mess up
and restore some order out there.
Apparently that is something you cannot or will not do for some reason.
Since dad
has been gone it seems you have decided that you are the king out here and feel
the need to tell everyone what to do whether it has to do with our own property
or not. You do not even live on that
property behind dad’s house and yet you believe that you have the right to do
anything with any of our properties at any time. Here is a news flash… you do not… at least
where my dad’s property is concerned. In
my mind it will always be dad’s…
Under the
guise of helping people you let Donnie, a then homeless individual, live on
your property without a thought that 2 single females were only a few feet
away. It is my understanding that you
would not pay him very much for the work he did do for you and that’s why
things came to a halt. Most people do
not like to work for next to nothing in my experience. Luckily Donnie turned out to be decent enough
guy and there were no problems at least on our end. Your anger at him and Sandy seems to stem
from your loss of almost free labor, not from that fact that your wife suspects
you of cheating due to your own indiscretions in the past. You told me that you asked Sandy directly to
not walk her (dying) dog on your property and that she would not comply but I
have since learned that you never asked her directly. When I discussed the issue with her, she
stopped immediately and now stays on my side of the line.
Which brings
me to my next point; you do not have the decency to talk about any issues face
to face where they have a chance to be resolved. Instead you like to talk trash behind peoples
back and that leads me to believe that you have or will do so the same with me.
Case in point when you single Anthony
out when he is alone and come bitch to him about what he is doing with my
blessing and he tells you to come take it up with me, you say… “I don’t want to
hear her bitch.” Another news flash… we
are all tired of hearing you bitch but that doesn’t seem to stop you from
carrying on now does it?
Another case
in point; when you told Anthony that the only reason Mr. Dave cuts everyone’s
grass is because he was a nosy old man. It is so far off the mark that it’s
funny and it says a lot about what kind of person you really are. Dad thought mighty highly of Mr. Dave and he
was the true person who helped my dad out many times over when I wasn’t
here. It is him that has my respect. FYI he mows grass because he is retired and
looking for things to do. He never
starts trouble of any kind and he is the one that truly helps people.
Anthony can
build a fire out back any time he chooses and any wood left on dad’s property
will be burned as well as any other wood that he can forage for; that is not on
your property. At the very least he is
responsible with the fire and does not leave them blazing unattended like you
do on occasion. Dad told me once that he
called the fire department on you because you were careless and let one get out
of control. Which brings me to another
point about your constant claims of not wanting people on your land because you
think they can get hurt as you stated to me about why Sandy couldn’t walk her
dog or even me walking Gus to dad. If
those claims were true then you would take more care not to burn the
neighborhood down and wouldn’t have hired Melissa and Tim G’s boys to work on
your property, again for next to nothing, and then demand they not use it as a
cut through. I see a pattern of behavior
here and it shows that you take far more than you give. You also like to accuse others of doing what
you yourself are doing. It is called
gaslighting and it’s an old tactic used by people who have no conscious so go
ahead and call me crazy while you are at it.
It will simply prove my point even more so than you already have.
Also the
fact that you slam pallets down between 5 and 6am is tiresome and shows you
couldn’t care less about the people in this neighborhood. I don’t care if you are trying to run a side
business this is not a commercial property, it is a residential one. Now I
do understand you are trying to make money to care for your family and I
usually admire a hard working man. But
what you don’t understand is that most of us here are trying to do the same
thing. We just do it without running
over anyone else as you seem to like to do.
Next is your
ridiculous claim that the water hose to drain the shower and sink water from
the camper is causing an overflow of “your” drainage ditch is another example
of you causing problems where there are none.
But FYI, that situation is being remedied soon. The ditch is not on your property nor does it
cause any issues for you. It causes
issues for me and Hub because we have houses on these properties that can be
flooded in a hard rain. You only have
wood and trash that gets wet so if it’s that much of a concern for you then
move your wood and trash away from dad’s property line closer to the road and
you will be just fine.
It would be
in everyone’s best interest if you would build a privacy fence around your
property and if you could make it a least 12’ high between the dividing lines
of our property it would solve both of our issues. But somehow I don’t think you are interested
in solving any issues, just causing trouble.
So when time and money allow I will be building that fence to block the
view and to keep you off this property. But in the unlikely event you do decide to put
up a fence, I suggest you get your property surveyed because I will not be
having a 40 year feud with you about property lines that my dad had with Jack
Dewberry, the previous owners of the place Sandy lives in.
I did a
quick tax record search and it still shows the address listed under Betty
Quinn’s name so either you have not filled for title in your name or you do not
own the property at all. Either way, it
is only 0.6500 of an acre and from the looks of it you are using way more than
that. In fact it looks like you are
encroaching on all the surrounding properties trying to claim more land for
yourself. When you placed no trespassing
signs on dad’s land I think you were trying to add a little more to your
already poached land. Nice try… I know that your property is pie shaped,
unbuildable and not very valuable. I
also know a little about squatters rights here in NC and so far from my
research, that will be expanded over time, I’ve found that NC does not honor
any rights a squatter may claim so you seem to be out of luck there, but I
could be wrong. Time will tell and in
any event I’m not giving you the chance.
Also dad told me that you were interested in buying Dean and Tiffany’s
place, the one where Betty and Quinn lived in, right out from under them. My question is why are you so interested in
buying or stealing all the land you can get your hands on around here? Don’t worry, I don’t expect an answer.
It’s a damn
shame that you have no respect for my father than this and I have no illusions
that you will show any more respect to me or my renters or even the
neighbors. Each of us talks with one another
and we know what you are doing so it will not work. But I will say this for the last time… I am
done dealing with your BS. I have other
things to deal with and again you do not even live here so you have no business
demanding, bullying or harassing any one here.
I hope I have made myself crystal clear about these issues and you
understand that I will not back down.
I’ve had plenty of experience in dealing with people like you and I am
not intimidated in the least. However it
is extremely unfortunate that this situation has come to this.
A copy of
this letter has been given to all the neighbors and Hub Dorton as well.
