I stopped going out on weekends, buying overpriced drinks, and started preparing all of my own meals at home.

@Linda S.Sometimes you read these chains of responses where each poster is obvious just trying to be holier than the last one...usually when it's a landlord asking about how to stick it to a tenant over something like a stained carpet or a ding in a door.

If an uninterrupted chain of documentable residence cannot be established for the previous 24 months, this is unacceptable.A criminal background check will be done on all applicants and any occupant 18 years of age or older.

Since you are in the chain of lakes area, and since the hot summer season is so brief, and since the population of the lakes area is way higher in the summer than during the rest of the year, you have unique problems for a unique area.  

If you choose you can text them or email to give them a reminder your coming,  but, expect to find security chain on if they don't let you enter.

We have very strong pet language and even restrict certain breeds and restrict the tenant from chaining the dog to a post in the back yard.

@Catherine Decker - I'd check with an actual lawyer before doing anything, but my gut instinct if they refused to respect my vacant property would be to escalate it by giving them written notice and tossing a chain link fence up around the perimeter. 

Small stumps can sometimes be dug out by hand and/or by a chain on a truck hitch.

As for an appeal - you need to work your way up - ask for the supervisor and keep going up the food chain.

I did not include the complete history of the matter but as I explain in the chain above I have reached out to the tenant to seek her cooperation in communicating with the neighbor about his allegations.