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Judge rules in favor of Iron Range man who sawed neighbor's garage in half | Park Rapids Enterprise
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Wow, that's a bummer. I used to work for a fence company years ago. Been caught in some property disputes where someone built a garage or shed on someone elses property. Usually ends up pretty heated. One dude lost half of his parking area due to not checking for the property pins. Another person spent thirty thousand on a really nice shop, just to lose use of it. They built it 10 ft over on another persons property :banghead: seen a couple commercial buildings have to be torn down and the contractor had to start all over for the same reason.
Told my kids when they started looking at buying homes to find the property pins when looking at a place. This way you know exactly what your buying
Told my kids when they started looking at buying homes to find the property pins when looking at a place. This way you know exactly what your buying
dmccarty
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When we were looking at property to buy, an interesting parcel came up for sale. I went to see it after work and I was not prepared for woods walking in the summer but we had learned if a property popped up on the market you had better get out to see it NOW. I was wearing shorts, Top Siders and no socks...
I get out to the place and it is a long narrow lot, I think it was 10-15 acres, but really narrow. The narrowness was done so that all lots would have access to a river. The lots were subdivided back in the 20's or 30's if I remember right. Anyway, the driveway going into the property was covered in vetch which I call tick weed because ticks LOVE to hang out in vetch. :shocked: Luckily, the parcel next to the one for sale had been logged so I was able to walk in the tick free cleared area and see into the lot which had 15-20 year old hardwoods and the river frontage was wonderful...
Neighbors started arriving home from work so I talked to them and they told me a few things and said that I REALLY needed to walk down the driveway and see what was there. In spite of the tick weed, off I went and WOWSER. The seller had lived in the woods. There was no house but an old school bus with a water bed and a shed built against the bus. There were old cars, 55 gallon drums, batteries, extension cords, an old boat, and assorted junk all over the place. :shocked: The odd thing was that there was a new fence running in the woods but not tied to a corner. :confused3: You just walked up the driveway, seeing the junk, and suddenly a fence appeared. :confused3: Odd to say the least.
As I was pondering the junk yard and the mystery fence I hear a car driving up on the other side of the fence. This is all happening in woods and as I hear the car, I can just make out a driveway. The guy in the car gets close, sees me, stops and comes over to talk to me. Long story short, he had bought his land, the seller of the parcel I was looking at was living in the bus and shed. The problem was the bus and shed was half way across the property line. The new owner told Bus Man to move the bus off his land and gave him three months. At the end of three months, the bus/shed had not moved, so the landowner moved the bus/shed across the property line with a skid steer.
What a mess. We put out an offer which was not accepted but the seller did find a buyer for close to full price. :confused3::shocked: I hope the guy cleaned up the mess before the land was sold. I never did find the out house, there had to be one, but it might have been across the property line. Nor did I find an obvious trash dump.
What I did find driving back to town was hundreds of chiggers running up my legs!:shocked: I pulled into a gas station which had ONE can of Off for $5. I would have paid $20. I emptied the can of Off on my legs but it was too late. The chiggers had chewed me up. The next few days were heck from the itching....
Later,
Dan
I get out to the place and it is a long narrow lot, I think it was 10-15 acres, but really narrow. The narrowness was done so that all lots would have access to a river. The lots were subdivided back in the 20's or 30's if I remember right. Anyway, the driveway going into the property was covered in vetch which I call tick weed because ticks LOVE to hang out in vetch. :shocked: Luckily, the parcel next to the one for sale had been logged so I was able to walk in the tick free cleared area and see into the lot which had 15-20 year old hardwoods and the river frontage was wonderful...
Neighbors started arriving home from work so I talked to them and they told me a few things and said that I REALLY needed to walk down the driveway and see what was there.
In spite of the tick weed, off I went and WOWSER. The seller had lived in the woods. There was no house but an old school bus with a water bed and a shed built against the bus. There were old cars, 55 gallon drums, batteries, extension cords, an old boat, and assorted junk all over the place. :shocked: The odd thing was that there was a new fence running in the woods but not tied to a corner. :confused3: You just walked up the driveway, seeing the junk, and suddenly a fence appeared. :confused3: Odd to say the least.As I was pondering the junk yard and the mystery fence I hear a car driving up on the other side of the fence. This is all happening in woods and as I hear the car, I can just make out a driveway. The guy in the car gets close, sees me, stops and comes over to talk to me. Long story short, he had bought his land, the seller of the parcel I was looking at was living in the bus and shed. The problem was the bus and shed was half way across the property line. The new owner told Bus Man to move the bus off his land and gave him three months. At the end of three months, the bus/shed had not moved, so the landowner moved the bus/shed across the property line with a skid steer.
What a mess. We put out an offer which was not accepted but the seller did find a buyer for close to full price. :confused3::shocked: I hope the guy cleaned up the mess before the land was sold. I never did find the out house, there had to be one, but it might have been across the property line. Nor did I find an obvious trash dump.
What I did find driving back to town was hundreds of chiggers running up my legs!
:shocked: I pulled into a gas station which had ONE can of Off for $5. I would have paid $20. I emptied the can of Off on my legs but it was too late. The chiggers had chewed me up. The next few days were heck from the itching.... Later,
Dan
breadtrk
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Nothing bad there. Mr Hood was drunk and acting out. Lucky he didn't get shot, it would have been justified in TN.
Someone threatens you with a gun here, you can shoot that butt to protect your life and or property. Here you can shoot someone for vandalizing your car on your property. As long as they are on your property committing any crime, they are fair game.
Someone threatens you with a gun here, you can shoot that butt to protect your life and or property. Here you can shoot someone for vandalizing your car on your property. As long as they are on your property committing any crime, they are fair game.
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We are on 40 acres so it is not quite as obvious but the neighbor built a new house on his property. One day I wander around and notice that his new septic tank and leachfield are on our property ......
I guess I could have been difficult and told him to move it, but we just did a property swap instead. He did all the surveying and filing so that worked in my favor.
I guess I could have been difficult and told him to move it, but we just did a property swap instead. He did all the surveying and filing so that worked in my favor.
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We are on 40 acres so it is not quite as obvious but the neighbor built a new house on his property. One day I wander around and notice that his new septic tank and leachfield are on our property ......
I guess I could have been difficult and told him to move it, but we just did a property swap instead. He did all the surveying and filing so that worked in my favor.
I guess I could have been difficult and told him to move it, but we just did a property swap instead. He did all the surveying and filing so that worked in my favor.
buckeyefarmer
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Had a friend whos neighbor started to build a house foundation across their property line. neighbors had looked at the wrong pin and went by it. fortunately got resolved before they did very much.
davrow
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The place we bought has its fence and propane tank over the property line. They lined up against what they thought was the property marker up the hill. Don't know why they thought that, the marker is easy to find about 40' west of that.
Just to save any trouble we bought the property we are encroaching on. Don't figure we'll complain to ourselves!
(that's not the real reason we bought it, we just wanted the property)
Just to save any trouble we bought the property we are encroaching on. Don't figure we'll complain to ourselves!
(that's not the real reason we bought it, we just wanted the property)
QRTRHRS
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About ten years ago I was helping my friend who had an HVAC/Plumbing/Electric business. He had agreed to help out this young gal who had herself in a situation to say the least. She and her boyfriend had a log cabin built only to have the boyfriend bail. The boyfriend was to do the utilities so the builder agreed to plumb and wire the house but then he bailed too.
Though none of us had much experiance with log cabins, even the village idiot could see this one was poorly built. The plumbing and wiring not much better. I went over the wiring, another guy redid the plumbing and the boss did the HVAC which fortunately had not been done at all. We did our part and moved on then my friend cut back to a one man band so I moved on as well.
He later told me that a neighbor had complained. Seems the cabin was built over the property line. In the end, the cabin caught fire and burned down. No cause was ever found. Hmmm.
Though none of us had much experiance with log cabins, even the village idiot could see this one was poorly built. The plumbing and wiring not much better. I went over the wiring, another guy redid the plumbing and the boss did the HVAC which fortunately had not been done at all. We did our part and moved on then my friend cut back to a one man band so I moved on as well.
He later told me that a neighbor had complained. Seems the cabin was built over the property line. In the end, the cabin caught fire and burned down. No cause was ever found. Hmmm.
