Question on property lines / easements / encroachment

[joefromga]

Easier and less confrontational to notify the non-resident charity through calls and letters. They probably have no clue and the vet certainly has no idea where the irrigation diggers have put pipes. This way the neighbor will never know there was an issue and the charity won't care because they don't live there.
When the guy moves in he will be happy to have a house and won't care how it got there.

 

[JamesHW]

I agree it should be addressed to establish clearly your ownership, but I am willing to guess there is zero chance the new owners (or subsequent owners) would have any success going before a judge and carving square footage off your road. It's an easement which should clearly establish your ownership and the access for the non-owners. IANAL and not your lawyer, but if it was me, I would just get acknowledgement of their mistake with the irrigation pipe.

 

[Deere Dude]

I didn't think charities were into sod and underground sprinkler systems. What happened to plant and water grass the good old fashioned way.

 

[dan ny escarpment]

We also have a flag shaped lot and shared 800' driveway for our place and the neighbor next door, at out retirement place. We own the bottom (at the town road) and top of the drive before it splits off to each home, and they own the run in the middle, the deed specifies a shared driveway easement for both properties (was owned by one family originally). Unlike most everyone else in the area, unfortunately these neighbors are neither friendly nor ethically employed, so costs for routine maintenance and snow removal are handled individually after a couple years of smarmy haggling and such. It gets complicated because some land is owned by each party, at some places, on both sides of the driveway. I mow everything I know we own, and some land we do not because it is on the side of the driveway our house is on, because they don't maintain it and probably do not know where the property lines are. Although it is an annoying sitation at times, and not ideal, it has worked out OK.

As other posters have noted, establishing clear boundary lines and assuring no installations or use beyond that specified in the easement on your land will be important to get straightend out asap, to avoid false expectations on ownership and property rights into the future.

 

[Wakey]

perhaps the irrigation was provided by a donor and perhaps the veteran is severely disabled?

 

[Zerk]

. It doesn't make sense to continue paying tax on that property you have no use for and they do.

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In certain parts of the country taxes are very low. You could be taking $50 or less for this piece.





Is the mailbox on your property or the counties right of way? I know on both my properties the county owes in from the road a bit.

 

[TheMan419]

perhaps the irrigation was provided by a donor and perhaps the veteran is severely disabled?

Or perhaps they wanted to do something nice for the vet?

 

[Sprinklerman]

I looked at a house for sale . It was a 75 by 200 lot and the house behind it was on a real small lot , no parking . The owner of the waterfront house had purchased the house I was looking at 10 years earlier . He put an easement for the back 100 ft of the house I was looking at . The easement was for above , on and under the land , for parking and septic drainfields . But the house for sale had to pay the taxes , and had no use or access at all . When i found this out , I cut my offer in half .

 

[Buty]

It sounds like you have a necessity easement which is said to run with the land. It never expires unless the properties merge.

 

[jlgurr]

What was the outcome?

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