Your Land is my Land

[ultrarunner]

When I-747 was tossed it lifted the lid on taxes... and that is how the county could increase mine valuation 80%...

When I bought, the zoning was such I had 3 buildable lots... now due to setbacks they no longer exist but the assessor says I would have to apply for a building permit and be turned down for the assessed value to decrease...

As for surveys... no problems with my WA neighbors... there are very old fences and in place and the demarcation between my wooded property and there pasture land is clear as night and day...

I did have a problem with dumping... looks like someone drove down the road and behind the shop and drop a load of tear-off old roofing shingles... so I guess it happens everywhere.

 

[goeduck]

When I-747 was tossed it lifted the lid on taxes... and that is how the county could increase mine valuation 80%...

When I bought, the zoning was such I had 3 buildable lots... now due to setbacks they no longer exist but the assessor says I would have to apply for a building permit and be turned down for the assessed value to decrease...
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I would be applying tomorrow.

 

[oosik]

You want to talk about tax increases on land. My property was purchased in 1939. The mile long easement - my driveway - was purchased in 1954. The county never "married up" the easement with the property. So until we came down from Alaska in 1982 and had the driveway constructed - the County assessors assumed my 80 acres was landlocked. My property is a mile due west of the county road. My 1981 taxes on the 80 acres was $4.75 - that's right - four dollars and seventy five cents for a full years property taxes. My 1982 property taxes were $2750 and change. As a matter of fact the dam assessors wanted to assess back taxes to 1954 - the year the easement was purchased. They failed in that attempt.

 

[DB Pilot]

Have not heard back from the surveyor. Hopefully this week sometime. Also has been very quiet this whole week, but I have been on the property most every day.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Am I wrong is assuming that in many places being a "Nice" neighbor and allowing use of your land by a neighbor may in fact be giving them legal claim at some point?

I was at a friends on the weekend here in Ontario Canada, and apparently a neighbor needs to use their road to access the beach of his cottage, but has no legal right to do so. These friends tell me that you need to close the road to traffic once a year (with witnesses) to maintain complete ownership. Seems very strange (and unlikely) to me.

 

[QRTRHRS]

A couple of thoughts on this. Years ago at my parents place actually, the neighbor kids were showing up in the back yard even though their family had a much larger place. I planted briar bushes here and there between what was already there.

Someone mention beetle traps. Skip the trap, just plant rose bushes.

I have also planted forsythia and let it grow wild but that was along an existing somewhat rundown woven wire fence that offered protection while the plants took hold.

Since it sounds like the neighbor will simply run down anything not sturdy, then as mentioned something heavy duty is required after the survey is completed. Used guard rail welded not bolted together would slow him up. I beam or heavy pipe driven well into the ground would be my next choice.

 

[Drstrangeglove]

I had a neighbor that would drive across my land. I took a 24 ton excavator and drove some rail-road track on the property line. I think he got the hint.

Years ago when I was 16 or I dug a hole and back filed it just before a heavy rain. We caught the trespasser the next morning. The entire hood was buried in soupy mud.

 

[goeduck]

unch:How about set that cannon up with a trip wire at the end of the rows (on your property) and load the cannon with roundup aimed at his grapes. With proper signage. Danger Cannon Loaded with Roundup Aimed at your Grapes.

Joking of course.... unch: unch: unch:

 

[bunyip]

unch:How about set that cannon up with a trip wire at the end of the rows (on your property) and load the cannon with roundup aimed at his grapes. With proper signage. Danger Cannon Loaded with Roundup Aimed at your Grapes.

Joking of course.... unch: unch: unch:

Would that be grapeshot?

 

[ultrarunner]

You want to talk about tax increases on land. My property was purchased in 1939. The mile long easement - my driveway - was purchased in 1954. The county never "married up" the easement with the property. So until we came down from Alaska in 1982 and had the driveway constructed - the County assessors assumed my 80 acres was landlocked. My property is a mile due west of the county road. My 1981 taxes on the 80 acres was $4.75 - that's right - four dollars and seventy five cents for a full years property taxes. My 1982 property taxes were $2750 and change. As a matter of fact the dam assessors wanted to assess back taxes to 1954 - the year the easement was purchased. They failed in that attempt.

Not to derail... but it is things like this that made Prop 13 law in California and why the voters passed I-747 in Washington... a Judge tossed I-747 and for the last 40 years Prop 13 has been under attack.

Mom's property has an old subdivision on file... from the 1920's... at times it has been an issue but we have documents showing the city vacated the claim in 1954... most is now parkland so no longer a concern... I just wish Government officials could read a map!!!

Too many go by existing fences... there was an old corral... and the fencing was put where convenient without regard to boundary... about every couple of years we get notice to abate noxious weeds citing eminent fire danger... the inspectors are clueless... can't comprehend a fence could be anyplace but the property line...

The boundary stone markers on my Grandfathers Farm were set back 10' so as to not be in the small creek... makes sense for anyone taking the time to look at the survey filed... when folks from the city bought adjacent they had started under grounding the creek and putting up fence on 10' inside my Grandfather's land.