Neighbors Children

Okay, so my family lives in a house behind three other houses. And all three houses have about 3 children to each. (yes it can get a bit annoyin.) okay separated between the three houses and my house is this straight row of about a dozen maple trees maybe more. (their still pretty young). you see about 4 years ago the three houses were built and it use to be a flowershop, our family use to be friends with the owner. The guy was nice enough to leave the trees for us, unluckly we found out its the neighbors that own it. 2 of the houses just gave over the trees cause they knew we might as well have them cause after they moved in the 3 houses all built a fence that attached to each and was right against their side of the maple trees. Too keep all their kids in. Well the fences obviously didnt work. Behind house one on the other side of the fence(aka our side, but their property.) the kids are building a fort. While doing so they ripped pieces of bark off the maple trees, put up a hammock, threw trash in our yard, seems to have went into our shed(door was open when i went over to check it out today.), smashed a birdhouse, and leaves toys and such in our yard. Mind you these are young children, bout 6-10 i believe. anyways we dont know what to do, the parents dont seem to keep an eye on our children and when ever we tell them to leave the yard they say this is their property. any ideas?

[able1]

Based on what you say here, you could file suit against them (or at least threaten to do so) in small claims court or in regular court; filing in small claims court is easier and requires no attorney...you could try to collect all of the costs and damages that you suffered due to the kid's behavior...

You can try to speak to the parents, if this doesn't seem to be an option then what you may want to do is call your township and notify them of the issues taking place, let them inform the household of their zoning... THEIR Property area.
If it continues, you can always call police and have them informed of what their property is and to keep a closer eye on the children. Then there is always child services, report neglect and they will be out to investigate the parenting issues. You dont have to give your name.

[loved08]

unregistered is exactly right. great. except first i would notify the parents...then go straight to the police. notifying them of them of their property line won't do crap but make them mad.