Signs placed on private property (Airway Heights: for sale, 2013, homes)

[BornInTheAppleCapital]

Anyone know if there is a rule about placing signs on private property? We live on a corner lot, which seems like a good place for people to put yard sale signs etc. We don't mind when our neighbors put a sign on the corner as they usually ask first. Here's the but...two realty companys have placed signs on our property in the last year to advertise for other homes, but not one has asked permission to do so. We live in the country, there is no stop sign from the gravel road on one side of our property to the paved road in front, so some people take the corner too sharp and have knocked the last signs over more than once. Well, just yesterday someone put the sign back up and stacked a bunch of rocks around it to help keep it upright. No one asked permission once again. The sign is within our property lines, not within the county easment. Do we have the right to ask the realty to move the sign, or do we just have to live with our property being used as free advertising space?

[TSO2.0]

Take the sign and leave a note in it's place that says:

"If you ever want to see your precious sign again you'll bring $100 cash in
unmarked bills to the Airway Heights Yokes parking lot at high noon tomorrow...come alone."

[stonecypher5413]

Put up your OWN sign after removing the others:

PRIVATE PROPERTY: POST NO SIGNS

[Arminius 09]

Originally Posted by TSO2.0

Take the sign and leave a note in it's place that says:

"If you ever want to see your precious sign again you'll bring $100 cash in
unmarked bills to the Airway Heights Yokes parking lot at high noon tomorrow...come alone."

This sounds like the most appropriate course of action to me.

[BornInTheAppleCapital]

Thanks! Glad to hear we are not over-reacting. I really like the suggestion that TSO 2.0 made, but don't want to make the local headlines The thought had already crossed my mind about putting up no trespassing signs. I thought it was pretty gutsy of the realtor to stack all those rocks around the sign to as an attempt to keep it in place. Wonder who's property he was trespassing on when he collected all those rocks

[zero34]

here's what you can legally do, take the sign, put it in the trash, but leave it sticking out of the trash enough for the realtor to see it. When they knock on your door asking why you trashed it, then ask them why they left it on private property, thus making it yours! I'm rather certain they'll never do it again

[fearnofish]

I would take the sign down and cut it up and then take the pieces and rocks and leave them neatly piled in front of the realtors office door. But that is just me.

[Hemlock140]

That's trespassing, though you're not likely to get the police to do anything.
In unincorporated areas it's hard to get things like that enforced. Here we do not allow but one sign in front of the home for sale, and two others directing
to it that must be in the public right-of-way.