more wonderful neighbors...

[EddieWalker]

Seems to me that when you bought the land, you also bought everything that was on it unless it was specified in the contract. Obviously, your only recourse on the metal is taking them to court for what you think it's worth. Not an easy thing to prove and overall, just a huge waste of time and money.

Seems like it's just one of those areas that you'd be better off not becomeing a part of. I find it very hard to imagine things getting better, and in fact, the indicators are all pointing to a life of issues.

To add to your story though, I have one myself that happened to a neighbor. He bought the land and was living there a few months. One morning when he was leaving his place, he drove by one of his gates only to see it was gone. Somebody had stolen the entire gate during the night.

After asking around, he found out it was the contractor that had been hauling dirt out of it before he bought the place. Seems he figured the gate was his since he put it there. The law felt differently and he had to re-install it.

What comes with the property, stays with the new owner!!!

Eddie

 

[SnowRidge]

<font color="blue"> What comes with the property, stays with the new owner!!! </font>

Yep, I had to 'educate' the people we bought our property from. They said they were going to take the gates off of the barn. They called them corral panels, and claimed they weren't really gates (they were). They even claimed they could take the fences if they wanted them, I kid you not, since they weren't listed on the sales contract. Then they claimed they could take the gates since we weren't planning on keeping cattle and didn't need them. I disabused them of that notion too.

We had other issues with these jerks, but 'nuff said. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[rox]

On your property, do you see any other location that you would like for building a home?

I guess they just beat you tot he punch, building before you did. A little tough to swallow, I'm sure a disapointment, however it is their land. Are you still thinking it over? Have you come up with a Plan B yet?

 

[bmaxwell]

no plan b just quite yet, there are other suitable building locations, but the property line is completely pasture all the way from where the house could sit to the back side, therefore, if in the future the same thing happened again on those other lots then I would be even worse off than I am now w/ the privacy issue, my wife and I are still scratching our heads on what to do, of course if the real estate agent sells the estate lots across the road for what he is asking then we will be hard pressed not to let it go, I wouldn't mind ending up in Alabama to tell you the truth, we are close enough to doing now anyways, 15 minutes from the line but they seem to want as much or more right across the line, so we'll see

 

[LBrown59]

There is a small subdivision of 7 houses along the rear of my property line.

I tried to buy that piece of land 20 years before the subdivision was built.
Had I been successful there wouldn't be any homes up there today.

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[LBrown59]

<font color="red">1 ? </font>

What would you have done had you went ahead and built your house and 2 or 3 years later these people did the same
thing?

Didn't you think of that when you selected the property and chose the home site?

 

[bmaxwell]

no I didn't think that anyone would go to these extremes, besides the fact I didn't know the laws could be pushed on so many parameters for their build that it would end up a problem like this, this is one of those extreme cases where the very worst possible outcome (which was more than likely unforseen to the most careful observer) happened, they put it as close in every direction and went past every likely and reasonable home site to do what they did, the land was split up into the minimum 4 acre tract w/ the minimum amount of road frontage and the minimum total width at widest points, then the mobile home was put the minimum distance from the back and sides of the property lines, it is the most unlikely building spot location on the entire property so no I didn't really visualize this happening at all

 

[kubotaman68]

I would suggest renting a very Large hi fi system and BLASTING classical music til 10 pm everytime you are there . Other suggestion would be to have a the hells angels use the land for their anual summer meeting ONCE !

 

[SnoFalls]

My "wonderful" neighbor" story ...

I'd bided my time for years until I could finally get some land in a rural area. Found the perfect 5ac, with a 600' drive that comes off a gravel road. And "private" is IT ... from the gravel road, you can't hardly see my house or 2 story garage/shop. The "private" part also make me VERY wary of "strangers" coming down my drive ... I really don't want a shootout with meth-heads.

My neighbor tho ... decides he can just use my drive *whenever* to get access to a pumphouse on the backside of _his_ property. In one case, he had trucks/workers blocking my drive for a few days.

One day (after about 3 years of this) I confronted him when he was on my property and just said "you now have notice that you will CEASE using _my_ driveway without my permission". He started in about how they had been using it for 20 years, and that he was a lawyer and could get an access easement, blah, blah. I told him "You wanna go to court? fine by me, but the next time someone is on my property without my permission, I will escort them off ... and I will be armed". I also said, "I'm not trying to be a a$$, and you _can_ use _my_ driveway with _my_ permission, but gimme a courtesy call first" ...

I now get a call every 2 months or so when he needs access to his pumphouse.

I'm certain that he (and his family) don't understand that it isn;t their property. Three side by side lots had been divided up 40 years ago to the "kids" when granpa passed on. This neighbor is decended from that line and so I acquired part of that.

I've had some old folks drive up my drive one sunday to "look around" ... I gave them a very stern "get outta here". Cripes I woulda figured they would understand the POSTED no tresspass sign ... what is it with people.

 

[RonR]

I always thought living in the country would be GREAT. But I've changed my mind.

A lot of my friends have had their rural homes burgularized. Sparse neighbors and police longer away makes better pickings!

If I were living in the country, I'd have a stout automatic gate, as well as motion sensitive lights that came on when someone entered, several different ones, not just one. And maybe a barking dog recording as a further deterent. And then have lots of insurance.

I sleep better knowing my neighbors within 50-100 ft know us well and we watch each other's stuff and kids..............

ron

 

[LarryD]

I've got a similar situation to you.

The local map shows my drive as being a road that connects through to a development. So I get the occasional tourist (most locals know it doesn't go through) pulling into my drive looking very confused. I even had a guy drive right past my house, garage and into the pasture to turn around. I couldn't believe it. I stopped him and asked him what he was doing and I got the deer in the headlights look. Sometimes I wonder how some people survive in this world.

 

[MX5000]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I've got a similar situation to you.

The local map shows my drive as being a road that connects through to a development. So I get the occasional tourist (most locals know it doesn't go through) pulling into my drive looking very confused. I even had a guy drive right past my house, garage and into the pasture to turn around. I couldn't believe it. I stopped him and asked him what he was doing and I got the deer in the headlights look. Sometimes I wonder how some people survive in this world. )</font>


That's one of the benefits of being at the top of the food chain (on land). If we lived in the ocean, there'd be some well fed predators...

Howard

 

[kubotaman68]

on our land we have the constant barage of "friends" of the family that sat idly by and watched the land go into foreclosure until my father and I bought it back on the land hunting fishing riding atvs camping etc and everytime they drive right thru posted signs and gates to do as they please with the "blessing of people that have not 1 cent interest in the property. It really galls me when people take everything and everyone for granted. One of the offenders has 250 acres of land posted to the hilt signs every 25 ft food plots for deer and turkeys metal gates up at evry access and he was up on our land with 5 friends putting up tree stands!!!! I ejected them and asked him why he didn't hunt his own land . His answer ..... I am growing back the deer and turkey population and I don't want them harassed. CAN YOU BELIEVE that??? I have already purchased gates and larger concrete blocks to put up as soon as the weather breaks. It never ends we always find beer cans and bottles and trash in our back pastures muddy ruts in our hay fields . People just have no manners. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I've got a similar situation to you.

The local map shows my drive as being a road that connects through to a development. So I get the occasional tourist (most locals know it doesn't go through) pulling into my drive looking very confused. I even had a guy drive right past my house, garage and into the pasture to turn around. I couldn't believe it. I stopped him and asked him what he was doing and I got the deer in the headlights look. Sometimes I wonder how some people survive in this world. )</font>

When I moved here there was an old shack on the land behind me.
When I put in a driveway to my trailer it looked like it was the road up to this shack.
For many year people tried to use my drive way to get to that shack instead of the road that did go to their driveway.
Finally the family moved out and the shack was torn down.
The land sat vacant for many years before somebody bought it and put a 7 home subdivision up there.
Now it looks like my driveway is the road that connects to the subdivision street and I'm back to people occasionally trying to access the subdivision street by using my driveway,
When they were building the houses sometimes the builders and contractors came in my driveway trying to get up there to the subdivision.
The farthest anyone got before realizing my driveway wasn't the way up there is the guy that came flying into the driveway drove on past the end of the drive continued clear through the yard and across the ditch and got about half way up the hill before it sank in that he was in someones yard instead of on a driveway or road.
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