For some reason, at least one of their residents insists on using our recycling and garbage cans.
It wouldn't be so bad but they are lazy and won't shuffle the cans around to get to the empty rear cans is as necessary in the tight quarters. So we come out our back gate and find recycling and garbage piled on the top with the lids propped open. One time it was a bag of smelly dirty disposable diapers - that was the tip-off we were being used.
One of my proactive neighbors did a little sleuthing and obtained the email address of the offender. It wasn't that hard, her junk mail was overflowing the cans at one point. Turns out she is an attorney. My neighbor sends a nice note to request she stop dumping on our property or at least get in the rotation of cleaning up and moving cans around when needed as all (really just me) our owners are supposed to take turns. The lawyer writes back one word "OK".
End of story? Nah, that would be too easy. Mail keeps coming, junk keeps coming, dirty diapers keep coming. We even inherited an old toilet bowl in the new toilet bowl box.
This is where it gets funny and sort of resembles the OP. My neighbor starts throwing bags of garbage back over what she assumes is the offenders back fence. All this time we assumed the offender was the 5 unit apartment directly outside our back fence. Turns out it was the large condo bldg. right next door to the apt. bldg.
We get this long snarky sarcastic letter from one of the apartment residents accusing my neighbor of being a drunk and embarrassing and all kinds of other things. I wish I had saved it. It was pretty funny. It sounded a lot like the OP's guy.
In my neighbor's defense, we ALL assumed it was the apartment because the bdlg. owner (Marlene) is a notorious cheapskate who doesn't supply cans. Apparently, the residents are required to carry the garbage three doors down where the landlord lives and has free city cans. Obviously illegal. The only reason I can think of why this person(s) uses our cans is because they are closer to their back gate than their own dumpster.
What's even more strange, the offending condo building, at one time, had a sign on their dumpster telling Marlene's tenants not to use their dumpster "unless you agree to pay overage charges".
So the battle rages on. My partner found a bag of garbage on our front stoop the other day.
I'm at the point where I want to put up cameras.
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