Virginia Neighbors Want To Sue New Neighbors Over Road, Need Advice.

I’ve got new neighbors who have been building their house for around 3 years and moved in back in August. To get their land graded for the house they had over 50 truck loads of dirt and shale delivered. This basically destroyed parts of the shared private drive of 7 other homes.

I say driveway but the road is listed as an easement for everyone living on this private road. The road is paved a quarter mile, turns up hill to the new neighbors which is gravel, then goes up the hill to another house where another neighbor paved to the property line up to his house.

I’ve got a set of neighbors who are quick to sue people (they’ve already been to court over trespassing with the new neighbors) so you could imagine they’re quick to go after them over the driveway. I on the other hand am not and would not like to make waves with someone who I may live next to for 40 more years.

The NEW neighbors sent my wife a message after I noticed the road was messed up and said they would be fixing it. And here we are 5 months after them moving in and nothing done.

The sue happy neighbors that have spoken with a lawyer already are asking me if I would go to court with them (I assume split legal fees, they know I have a good job and some money and I’m pretty sure they’re not exactly in the best financial place but they are nice people… to me.) they also want me to try to talk with two other neighbors about going in also. Idk why they couldn’t talk to them on their own so I feel iffy about the situation there.

My question is, would I have a case to proceed with getting the road fixed? Or would it be a waste of everyone’s time and money? The road is drivable now but if it stays in this condition it will end up being full of rough holes and such. It was not in this condition before they started construction but I have no pictures to prove (unless I could dig something up on my phone maybe)

The neighbor who spoke to a lawyer said if they don’t pay, they could garnish wages blah blah blah she’s not a lawyer either.

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