A Georgia couple was told to lock themselves inside their bedroom after police said an armed intruder entered their home in the early morning hours. The incident happened around 3 a.m. on June 12 in Powder Springs. According to Atlanta News First, Cobb County police said 20-year-old Steven Hilton allegedly broke into an elderly couple’s …

A homeowner says a long-running neighbor dispute has moved from trash and complaints to possible lawn damage along the property line. The anonymous homeowner shared the story on Reddit, where they claimed a camera caught a neighbor walking into the driveway and throwing trash into the yard. The post was later highlighted by TwistedSifter, which …

A Richmond, Virginia, homeowner finally had a low-hanging Comcast wire fixed after he said months of calls failed to get the problem resolved. The wire was left dangling above Brad Armstrong’s driveway after a large tree fell across Cherokee Road in late February and knocked down utility lines, according to 12 On Your Side. After …

A Smyrna, Tennessee, couple says a sinkhole that opened in their yard three weeks ago is still growing, while both the city and their insurance company say the problem is not theirs to fix. Gregg Vickrey told WSMV he first noticed the hole while mowing his lawn on Breslin Avenue. The back wheel of his …

A St. Louis County homeowner is disputing a $12,000 tree-removal bill after an April 27 storm split a tree in half in his front yard. The homeowner, who asked not to be named, told First Alert 4 that his family was sheltering in the basement when they heard a loud crash. When they came upstairs, …

A Mesa, Arizona, man is accused of stealing packages from front porches for more than two months, and police are looking for additional possible victims. The suspect was identified as 28-year-old Luan Nguyen. According to AZFamily, police said video showed Nguyen taking packages from homeowners’ porches between March 27 and June 5. Nguyen was arrested …

A Grover Beach homeowner says indoor security cameras alerted him and his wife that someone was inside their house Tuesday afternoon. The incident happened at a home in the 200 block of North 10th Street, across from Ramona Garden Park, according to KSBY. Police Chief Jim Munro told the station officers were responding to a …

A home burglary in San Anselmo, California, turned into a neighborhood shelter-in-place order after police said a victim confronted a suspect inside a residence and was struck with a handgun. The incident happened Monday evening on Island Drive. According to SFGATE, police received a burglary report at 5:39 p.m. and found a victim with non-life-threatening …

Across older U.S. cities, homeowners can own land that looks useful but is blocked by zoning rules written for different neighborhood patterns. Akron, Ohio, is now considering changes that could make small vacant lots, backyard cottages, duplexes, triplexes, and older residential buildings easier to use for housing. The proposals would remove minimum lot-size requirements in …

As heavier downpours test neighborhood drainage systems, homeowners can end up with the same frustrating question: if runoff from somewhere else is washing away the yard, who is responsible for fixing it? That is the dispute at Terry Svennsson’s home in Macon, Georgia, where he says stormwater runoff is still flooding his yard and worsening …