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