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Seeing all these posts about neighbors and what they do or try to do and with lot line disputes etc, I decided to share how I handled my situation.
In 1996, purchased a house and thirty acres at auction. The acreage was completely fenced in and I was told by the seller that the fence was his.
After having the land rezoned from Ag to Rural Residential so that the pole barn could be built, built the pole barn. Then in 2001 put the house up for sale. Before this could be done the lot had to be surveyed. From the rezoning I knew that the fences were not quite on the lot line. However on the acre and half that the house was sitting on, the side adjacent to the neighbor was off about fifteen feet in the back.
About this time the neighbor gives me a call and asks what is going on because of the surveying stake on his property and I explained that was where the property line was. His reply was the fence was the property line ever since that he had been down there for over thirty years. He was not happy with the work that my surveyors had done and was going to get his own done. I told him to go ahead they will come up with the same position.
They did come to the same conclusion. Now this gentlemen is quite elderly so I called up his son and he said that they would be moving their fence the next year which was not done, if fact it did not get done for three years.
Last fall I noticed that the son was working on the fence and they had a Bobcat on the back portion of the property tearing down an old building and pushing it aside. The fence is now redone with it being on the other side of the old building. In the area next to my land the fence went in to his property from fifteen feet in the front to over fifty feet in the back.
During the course of owning the property, his nephew has asked to hunt on my property and I have given my permisssion. One time while deer hunting I came across this guy sitting where I was going to sit and it was his brother hunting without the required orange on my property which was posted. He asked me if I could hunt someplace else down there, I declined and politley asked him to leave, which he did. This mans son asked me if he could hunt last fall and I told him no because of the past actions.
The whole point of this is to get along, sometimes you have to give a little but you also have to draw the line when the enroachment is as bad as some of these that I have seen posted here. It did not cost me anything for my patience nor did I need the land in question.
For the rest of the story, after the land next to me was refenced, there was a chain and padlock on the gate, the house is now empty. The gentlemen is now living in a nursing home. It was not that he wanted my land it was just that he thought I was trying to take his.
In 1996, purchased a house and thirty acres at auction. The acreage was completely fenced in and I was told by the seller that the fence was his.
After having the land rezoned from Ag to Rural Residential so that the pole barn could be built, built the pole barn. Then in 2001 put the house up for sale. Before this could be done the lot had to be surveyed. From the rezoning I knew that the fences were not quite on the lot line. However on the acre and half that the house was sitting on, the side adjacent to the neighbor was off about fifteen feet in the back.
About this time the neighbor gives me a call and asks what is going on because of the surveying stake on his property and I explained that was where the property line was. His reply was the fence was the property line ever since that he had been down there for over thirty years. He was not happy with the work that my surveyors had done and was going to get his own done. I told him to go ahead they will come up with the same position.
They did come to the same conclusion. Now this gentlemen is quite elderly so I called up his son and he said that they would be moving their fence the next year which was not done, if fact it did not get done for three years.
Last fall I noticed that the son was working on the fence and they had a Bobcat on the back portion of the property tearing down an old building and pushing it aside. The fence is now redone with it being on the other side of the old building. In the area next to my land the fence went in to his property from fifteen feet in the front to over fifty feet in the back.
During the course of owning the property, his nephew has asked to hunt on my property and I have given my permisssion. One time while deer hunting I came across this guy sitting where I was going to sit and it was his brother hunting without the required orange on my property which was posted. He asked me if I could hunt someplace else down there, I declined and politley asked him to leave, which he did. This mans son asked me if he could hunt last fall and I told him no because of the past actions.
The whole point of this is to get along, sometimes you have to give a little but you also have to draw the line when the enroachment is as bad as some of these that I have seen posted here. It did not cost me anything for my patience nor did I need the land in question.
For the rest of the story, after the land next to me was refenced, there was a chain and padlock on the gate, the house is now empty. The gentlemen is now living in a nursing home. It was not that he wanted my land it was just that he thought I was trying to take his.