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Question:
I purchased my home 3 years ago. My neighbor and I talked about adjusting my sprinkler system to water her flowers and shrubs the next growing season. She never said anything about the property line being in question at that time.
She passed away last spring and the new folks are neighbors from hell. I want to put up a privacy fence to help make them better neighbors. I had the property line surveyed. It seems that 4 of my sprinkler heads are on their property. I had another person survey it and they said the back property marker has been moved. For the last 3 years the assumed property line was the start of their landscaping and the beginning of my grass/sprinklers. I got a certified letter from the 1st company I had out that the neighbor has hired them to do a legal survey. If they survey the line again and put the property line where they put it the 1st time how long do I have to move my sprinkler system? Can they just come over and tear them up out of the ground? I have a major operation coming up that will put me down for 3 months. I have contacted the only 2 local sprinkler company's close to move them. They are booked until after my operation date.
I thought of using adverse possesion, acquiescence to boundary line or something like that but think it would be easier to release the 4ft along the line. Also, if this be the case it would put my home into a easement zone for drainage. Please help with my options.
So does the legal survey give them the right to just come and remove the sprinkler system out of the ground?
State: Indiana
Thanks
I purchased my home 3 years ago. My neighbor and I talked about adjusting my sprinkler system to water her flowers and shrubs the next growing season. She never said anything about the property line being in question at that time.
She passed away last spring and the new folks are neighbors from hell. I want to put up a privacy fence to help make them better neighbors. I had the property line surveyed. It seems that 4 of my sprinkler heads are on their property. I had another person survey it and they said the back property marker has been moved. For the last 3 years the assumed property line was the start of their landscaping and the beginning of my grass/sprinklers. I got a certified letter from the 1st company I had out that the neighbor has hired them to do a legal survey. If they survey the line again and put the property line where they put it the 1st time how long do I have to move my sprinkler system? Can they just come over and tear them up out of the ground? I have a major operation coming up that will put me down for 3 months. I have contacted the only 2 local sprinkler company's close to move them. They are booked until after my operation date.
I thought of using adverse possesion, acquiescence to boundary line or something like that but think it would be easier to release the 4ft along the line. Also, if this be the case it would put my home into a easement zone for drainage. Please help with my options.
So does the legal survey give them the right to just come and remove the sprinkler system out of the ground?
State: Indiana
Thanks