Why should I spend money on a mediator in a neighbor dispute?
A mediator can perform a couple of valuable functions. First of all, they may save you a lot of money if they can resolve your dispute without the necessity of you going on to court .Perhaps hiring lawyers perhaps hiring experts and possibly spending a great deal of time resolving the dispute and may be even having an appeal; going upto a higher court . So they can save you a lot of money. The mediator also may be able to come up with some innovative way of resolving the dispute that you and your neighbour haven't come up with, that maybe your lawyers haven't come up with. That may not be something that is a result, that would be achieved by going to court. Sometimes there are no ways to settle cases ,they aren't damages, they aren't in junction but they are more innovative .They just aren't the result, that would be the natural result of a court proceeding. Finally that mediator may be able to narrowly resolve the particular dispute. But help patch up, what's become a deteriorating relationship with your neighbour and you may walk out of there with a friend living next door instead of an enemy .
