Move. Find a place with an HOA or accept your neighbors freedom to have broke down cars an tall grass.
I have a junk yard next door so I've got experience with this situation.
And if he didnt take care of his fence and his cattle broke down the fence...he would have to take care of the damages.
If he started drinking and let his property grow up and wolves moved in and started killing your cattle?
Isn't this affecting your rights though? I mean isn't that what gov is supposed to do? Protect our rights to property and such...
How? What has he done to physically change my property?
Should he be able to tell me the type of grass I have lowers his property value? Or if my house is t as big as others in the area am I a blight on the neighborhood lowering their values?
What if he doesn't like me having a range? Does that lower his property value because he can't sell to a liberal?
Fences are a funny thing and typically not considered to be owned by one property owner or the other unless place fully on one side of the property line which is not that common outside the city. If his animals get out and damage property he would be liable for it.
Drinking is irrelevant except for character assassination of the fictional farmer.
Natural problems (wolves) are not the fault of the land owner. Wolves can move in anywhere (more likely to be coyotes in Texas). Should we clear cut the forests and mow every square inch of the state to prevent nature from happening? The neighbor is not responsible for protecting his neighbors cattle from predators.
He created a condition which attracted the problem by his inaction.
Im saying all of that to illustrate that the way we choose to live does indeed affect others. A divorced family with kids affects your property (your wealth) more than a family that isn't divorced due to having to pay for the legal system, potentially social workers and such.
All lifestyles aren't equal. People living certain lifestyles absolutely affect your property rights. We subsidize through our taxes: the alcoholic, the promiscuous (both male and female, regular and gay) the unwed mothers, drug addicts, people who just dont want to work, guys who walk out on their families and on and on.
All lifestyles aren't equal and some absolutely affect your right to property.
So your problem is that you are effected because your taxes subsidize a life style you disagree with. I completely agree with that.
Lets fight to stop subsidizing everyone instead of fighting to tell them how to live.
To all heterosexual and LGBT members of our military, Thank you for your service.
Excuse you. Its LGBTQ and whatever perversion they come up with next.
Eventually you will see how it affects you. Then you'll care.
* Eating popcorn * You're starting to remind me of Ted Haggard.