Hello reddit, I take a lot of pride in making my house look nice. I’m a veteran, so I enjoy using my free time to do gardening, repairs, and general cleaning, especially power-washing.

My house is located right next to a popular hang out spot for teenagers, which I completely understand, they need a place to get away from it all and relax for a bit. The only issue I have is that they cut through my side yard instead of walking around my property which leads to a lot of dead grass from the constant walking.

I understood that it was because it was a lot faster to do so, so over the course of two weeks I transformed the dead area with a nice rock design that allows everyone to walk on top of it instead of destroying the grass.

Just two days after I did that it was vandalized, spray painted with designs and faces. I was upset as I had put in a lot of effort to create a solution for both sides.

But because of this I installed fences all around my property, the results aren’t great as a lot of people badmouth me when they see me outside. Claiming I’m a grouchy old man who doesn’t like teens.

Am I the asshole in this situation?