Chris:
Jason has the only answer worth listening to.
That said, I was in your position for 40 years. We owned more houses than anyone in the neighborhood, my dad owne a temp agency, EVERYBODY worked for him. My mother leased truck drivers. Thse who didn't work for him, worked for her!
I've had brand new vehicles tagged as abandoned. Had my scrap pile pawed through as it was reported to all be stolen auto parts.
My best revenge? I offered to sell my rental to the neighbors for a dollar more than I owed. They didn't buy it,I sold to a loser who was there less than a year, trashed it worse than I could have tried, had neighborhood code over all the time, finally he got busted selling drugs and the house is vacant.
When I sold the residence, I did the same thing, but I sold to a Mexican who filled the house with illegal aliens. He cut down every tree in the yard (think urban old growth!) tore don outbuildings, etc. We now understand the house is vacant and abandoned!
That my friend is how to piss of your nieghbors and come out hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead.
Oh yeah, don't forget that when they started calling in that my truck was abandoned, I camouflaged it. One evening, in the dark with spray cans!
