Annoying yard signs
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Anonymous
| we live on a corner lot and realtors, advertisers, random church groups are always sticking yard signs in our corner landscaping, our grass, etc... sometimes it is on the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. I was outside this morning taking the trash out and saw a realtor putting a sign up for an open house. She rudely said to me "this is NOT your property," so what is the law? I know you can't stick an advertisement in my landscaping that is in front of my house but can you stick something in the grass between the sidewalk and street? I am required to mow that but it is really public property? This is Fairfax county. |
Anonymous
| Our city has a code that allows the removal of any commercial signs on public property. Election signs are not included in this rule. The tree lawn is considered city property where I am so I would be allowed to pull up that real estate sign and I definitely would. |
Anonymous
| That is BS. Even if that isn't your property, you have responsibility for maintaining it. I would tear that sign right down and throw it in the trash. |
Anonymous
| Print out some banners of your own and drop them over the signs. Free country. |
Anonymous
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It's your property. The city has an easement.
Tell the business what your rental rate is. If they don't pay, sign goes down. |
Anonymous
| This would drive me nuts. My DH calls these signs “lawn herpes.” I would just keep pulling them out and trashing them. The worst part is you know once they put the signs in, they never go back to take them back out. It’s basically littering. |
Anonymous
It's likely not their property. It is part of the city's right of way in almost all cases, usually up to ten feet. Still, they are absolutely responsible for it, and it is not for commercial use, so trash the signs. |
Anonymous
| When I lived on a similar corner lot, I had the same issue. I trashed the signs as soon as I noticed them. I had one confrontation with someone angry that I trashed his garage sale sign; I told him I was responsible for maintaining the strip of grass between the sidewalk, that I trashed all signs, and that I wasn't willing to discuss the issue further. This at least got rid of him. |
Anonymous
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This is why trash cans exist. And let me tell you, once you trash them consistently for a while, the problem will lessen. Don’t bother interacting with people who think they know where property lines, easements and rights of way lie, or that because they think such a thing might exist that belongs to someone other than them they still can freely trespass and litter your property. Just wait for them to leave and trash their debris.
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Anonymous
That varies by jurisdiction. Some places the muni owns it, sometimes just an easement. |
Anonymous
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You should call the county and ask. But it's my understanding that the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street is your property, but the county has an easement to access utilities and stuff like that. An easement isn't public property that anyone can use.
From Fairfax County's website: "An easement is a right granted from a property owner to another for a specific use of a portion of the owner's land." https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks/stormwater/on-my-property |
Anonymous
| Some locals allow for specific signs, like very basic open house ones but the can only be up for a specific time frame. |
Anonymous
| Does it really matter whether that is city property or your property? The signs have been abandoned there so it's fine to throw them out. |
Anonymous
| We have a corner lot and over the many years we have lived there, exactly one real estate agent asked if she could put a sign on our corner. The house was new construction, so the sign was there for about two months. At the end of the two months, she removed the sign and left a $200 restaurant gift card under our front door mat with a thank you note. it is obvious why she is one of the top agents in Arlington |
Anonymous
Wow, impressive! |