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A man has hit out at his audacious neighbour who keeps stealing parts of his garden to enhance the appeal of his own property.

The neighbour, who is currently trying to sell his house, has been gradually encroaching on his garden to give theillusion of a "spacious backyard" for potential buyers.

The disgruntled man took to Reddit to vent his frustration: "The neighbours have listed their house for sale. They have a realtor that has taken pictures of our yard stating in the listing as 'has a spacious backyard'. Fact is, their house is placed on their lot further back giving them a larger front yard...

"The neighbour now cuts approximately 50 feet into our yard in an attempt to sell their house as a 'spacious backyard'. This is always done when we aren't home."

Adding insult to injury, the neighbour's house is also advertised as having "lake access" with the "ability to build your own dock". However, the man clarified that the lake is actually across the road from the house.

He added: "I have gone over their attempts on taking our property with a shorter cut to no avail. They wait until we leave and cut it again. Odd thing is, they never cut past the property line until they listed it for sale."

Despite confronting the issue, the neighbour continues to surreptitiously annex small parts of their property whenever they're not home.

She revealed: "I have finally heard from a Surveyor and should be having the property surveyed soon. Also learned from the Surveyor that our neighbourhood has never had a survey done.

"Surveyor stated that's the way they did things in our area when this development was planned out.

"Original land owner just put stakes out in a Field designating lots. This should be interesting. I will update further after the survey is complete."

One user responded to her post, advising: "Once you get a survey I would put up a temporary fence ASAP.

"Some wooden stakes and the back fabric used for erosion control (I can't recall the name). Maybe affix some no trespassing signs to it."

Another user shared their own experience: "We had someone selling the eight acres in front of us. The realtor listed it with access to our private driveway as an easement.

"We actually caught people on our private driveway measuring where they could put in an entrance to the property for sale.

"We had a survey already, provided the relator with the survey. He pointed to the utility easement as their rights to use our driveway.

"We had to get a lawyer to send a letter to the real estate company stating we would sue unless they stopped advertising our property as part of the sale.

"That was the only way we got them to stop. I would get your survey find out what you own then get an attorney. Once they sell it will be harder to get back what is yours."

And a third user said: "I'd be tempted to put up some really tacky yard decorations right along the edge of my property!"