Annoying new neighbors

I had a neighbor who painted swastikas on the outside of his house, just to piss off the neighborhood. He dragged out the old furniture from inside his house and lit them (sofa and stuffed chair) on fire and then left for the weekend. Twice, his fires filled the neighborhood with so much smoke that the county park rangers and local PD responded without even being called. He was threatened with $1,000 per day fines for living in an RV while he “tried” to rebuild the shack he hoped he would eventually live in. He threatened to assault neighbors and tried to entice neighbors to be on his property (we think so he could shoot them) by cursing them out and walking backwards to get them onto his yard. He would rev the engine on his motorcycle for hours, just keeping it at full throttle until the engine blew. The next day he did the same thing to his car’s engine.

The township did nothing but threaten him with fines (he only got 2 for $1,000 each). Then he put a noose in the tree in his front yard (while swastikas were still painted on his house). He finally put his property up for sale and my neighbor and I bought it. It turned out that he was sold the property from a flipper who arranged the mortgage from the flipper’s senior relatives. The loser never made one payment on it. He never made any property tax payments. The only thing he did to “buy” the property was give the seller an old tractor (that he borrowed from another trusting guy). This guy was a 7 time felon for assault and battery. Why was he still walking around? Why wouldn’t a seller see that his long rap sheet disqualified him from getting a real mortgage. The seller’s relatives were the ones who lost in the end, because the township took the back taxes and fines out of the purchase price. The rest of the purchase price went to the mortgages holders (they lost $20K in the deal). The loser lost nothing in the whole affair.

I actually thought before all this happened that the township would have made sure that shiit like this would never happen here. I was wrong. They were less than limp noodles.