Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Wisconsin

Neighbors 'hinding' sale of home by slander

We recently found out through our realtor that when perspecitive

buyers are looking at the outside of the property, our neighbors have

been slandering us and our property by saying that the garage we

added is illegal. We did everything legal in building the garage,

including obtaining a permit and having a building inspector come out

and personally okay the project. Our neighbors, the same ones who

are slandering us, agreed to a variance for the project around seven

years ago. Before we moved, the neighbors approached us with an

offer to buy some of our property but we declined. When we

declined, they told us that they would do whatever it took to make

sure the property did not sell and have received two letters from

them stating that there would be consequences if we continued to

decline.

We'd rather not, but what legal action can we take against these

neighbors for 'possibly' hindering the sale of our home and

threatening us? How we legally stop them from behaving this way?

We do not know for sure if this is why our home has not sold, even

though the perspective buyers have implied so. It has only been on

the market for two months. Thank you!

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