A DISPUTE has erupted between neighbors over a temporary storage solution while work is being done to improve the neighborhood.

Residents in Menasha, Wisconsin have taken their issues to court after property owner Asher Jacobson violated city ordinance.

Jacobson who owns seven properties in the residential area put a rusty shipping container on his land in which he stores his work tools as he carries out renovations on each property.

“They are telling us it’s not allowed to be kept on our private property,” he told WGBA-TV.

“We tried to put it back as far as we could on the lot to make it as little visible as possible for the time frame that it was going to be here, and then we had our neighbor who disagreed with it being here.”

Neighbor Bethanie Gengler claimed that Jacobson “has been harassing neighboring residents, putting garbage on his properties, and trash.”

According to the news outlet, the pair have a history of disagreements, and the shipping container is the most recent.

The pair attended the Menasha City Court where Jacobson appealed against city ordinance to keep the container on his property while he works on the rental properties.

According to the Menasha City Code on Offenses Against Property: “No person shall store junked or discarded property including automobiles, automobile parts, trucks, tractors, refrigerators, furnaces, washing machines, stoves, machinery or machinery parts, wood, bricks, cement blocks or other unsightly debris which substantially depreciates property values in the neighborhood except or upon permit issued by the Common Council.”

Jacobson appealed to the court to request a two-year approval of his container.

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He argued that the brief eye-sore is for the greater good as by the end of his work the neighborhood will be improved.

“We’re just asking for permission to hold the container for a specific time frame to do the work that we want to do to make them beautiful,” he told the news outlet.

In addition to this, he noted that renovation work is needed so he can continue providing homes for those who need more affordable housing that still feels like a home.

One of his tenants told the outlet: “He just really helps a lot of families out, and like, we’re a family with seven kids and he rented it to us. And, I don’t know, he’s just been really good to us.”

However, neighbors Carey and Jason Halverson who live next to another one of Jacobson’s properties claimed that he “can present himself very well, but he’s forked on all the way.

“Just tell him no a couple of times and then you’ll see what happens. See exactly what goes on.”

Despite Jacobson’s best efforts, the court denied his appeal.

The property owner was asked why he does not use the garage at the property for storage to which he noted previous issues of theft.

Following the court’s decision, Jacobson will have to remove the container.

The U.S. Sun has contacted Menasha City Clerk, Gengler, and Jacobson for comment.