Our land is a flag lot with a 100 foot strip of land running from our acreage to the county road 1/4 mile away. Our next door neighbors started doing improvements on the land about ten years ago when they bought their place. (We just bought our place last year.) They added driveways (3) even...
We recently turned in our neighbors for illegally building barns and enclosures for animals without a permit. They build them right next to our property line and our house, even though there are mandatory set backs (100 feet or 50 feet, depending). The county fined them and had them remove their...
We sent our neighbors a certified letter saying they needed to remove their property from the land they have been leasing from us. They broke the lease in several ways: they have not paid their rent in three years, they did improvements to the land without our permission, and they claimed they...
Thanks LWPat. It looks like the leases do transfer from owner to owner. It's a good thing and a bad thing. We would love to be able to use that land for farming...they just use it for decoration. But we can't break the lease. However, the lease does protect us against them from taking it away...
Four years ago we purchased a house at the end of a private road. As per our county laws, everyone who lives along this private road (There are eight of us...four on each side with one acre lots each) has to have a 50 foot strip of land from the county road to their property. So there are four...
Thank you for the information. I consulted with an attorney who told me that if I want that land back that I have to start maintaining it, so I sent my neighbors a certified letter telling them to get their stuff off my land...
As it turns out, I can't maintain the land without tresspassing...
Our neighbors had a survey done, and it turns out that what we thought was the property line for the past 28 years is really 18 inches into our property. Or in other words....our neighbors to the south of us are using 18 inches of our legal property.
This 18 inch strip lines their driveway...