Her neighbor agreed to split the bill on a $15,000 creek crossing. He backed out two days before the job
He allegedly ghosted her and left her to pay $15,000 all by herself.
A woman (@justagirlwholikestolaugh) told TikTok about an issue with her neighbor. She claimed that after agreeing to split the cost of their creek crossing repair, her neighbor allegedly flipped on her and pulled out of the project two days before construction began.
“I had a situation come up recently, and I wanted your opinion on how you would deal with this,” she said online. The woman explained that she has a cabin vacation rental, accessible through a creek crossing.
“My neighbor also uses this crossing to access his,” the woman added. She claimed that for 50 years, they shared the same creek crossing. Recently, however, the neighboring cabin changed hands. The woman denied having issues with her new neighbor, saying, “We’ve had a great relationship.” That was until this recent incident involving their creek crossing. She claimed that their bridge has been broken in half since last November. She clarified that nobody was at fault, attributing the damage to the flooding and poor construction.
“The last people didn’t build it properly, and it completely flooded and eroded. And I literally mean like the earth split in half,” she alleged. To access both their properties, she and her neighbor made a temporary fix. However, since she is running a vacation rental, she found it unsafe and wanted to repair the bridge. From November 2025 to September 2026, she alleged that she and her neighbor had been talking about the bridge repair. She further claimed that her neighbor even told her not to purchase anything until he had gone over his finances.
“It’s a very expensive job. It’s $15,000 to do the entire job,” she acknowledged. However, she said that it was the cheapest way to do it, so her neighbor allegedly agreed.
A done deal with her neighbor
“We put everything on our credit cards and our own cash and go through with that,” the woman claimed. She added that they had already ordered a crew, an excavator, a dump truck, and other necessary equipment and staffers needed for the major project. The woman continued that she couldn’t just cancel the project on a whim, believing that she wouldn’t get her money back if she did.
“The neighbor writes us a text message two days prior to the job,” she said. The message allegedly stated that her neighbor would no longer be participating in the job and that she would have to shoulder the full cost. In exchange for paying for the job, her neighbor allegedly told her that they would allow an exit on their driveway.
“The exit does exit on their driveway, but they don’t have road access without our side of the property. Anyway, my heart sinks,” she says. But her ordeal with her neighbor didn’t end there. She accused her neighbor of blocking their numbers after sending the text message.
“These are grown adults. They’re retired. They retired early, they’re very well off, they have no mortgage, and so I’m baffled at their lack of character,” she said. She alleged that her neighbor blocked them before they could reply.
Seeing no other way out, she decided to continue the construction. To avoid her neighbor’s exit, she consulted with her district and an engineer and reoriented the bridge to start and end on her property line. The additional quick survey and legal fees amounted to $3,000. Despite the extra costs, she still finished the project, and her neighbor no longer has access to the bridge. She isn’t the only one who was blindsided at the last minute. Another woman says she was almost scammed by her florist over a $1,800 fake bouquet.
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