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If you want to make friends with a neighbor that will be living next to you, which is more important, good will for a decade, or a few hundred bucks? Be a mench and sell the shed for $5 just to make it legal.
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Originally Posted by Cambium
if that's not on your property, just give it to your neighbor or let them do what they want with it?
I think these are the best suggestions - it's not on your property, you don't think it's likely to survive a move (and may not be worth the expense of moving), and the neighbor apparently wants it.
Give it to him, or sell for $1/$5/$10 if there is a concern over legality of gifting, and you'll have a happy neighbor and no worries about the property line issue.
I am curious though - I would assume (probably incorrectly) that the doors face your property - is it so far off your property that the doors can open and stuff can be loaded/unloaded without encroaching on your property? Otherwise, it might need to be moved or re-oriented regardless...
On the other hand, if you want to start the relationship with your new neighbor on the wrong foot, tell him you're filing for adverse possession since it's been there for 15 years...
I try to get along with neighbors and I want to be reasonable with them.
I just wanted to a "fair" price. A lower price than I initially thought of is fair. Depending on how they are when I meet them, I might just give it to them. Those suggestions are appreciated as well.
The shed's front does not point to my house and in fact, it sits kinda far away, it would be more convenient for the future neighbors to use it. I'd have to clear trees in order to move it onto my property and I thought if it costs around 300 to move and a few hundred more to clear trees + preparing the place for it to sit, it probably is not worth it. Most of the property is very hilly, so earth would have to be leveled out for the shed.
Ooops, I used the word "tiles" for shingles in the earlier posts. Sorry about that.
Anyway, thanks again for all the comments and feedback.
So if the property line was "off by a few feet", doesn't that mean most of the shed is still in your side? Seems either way one of you will have to move it.
If it's built on skids it's not that hard to do, just jack it up and put posts under it for it to roll onto. I just moved my 12x12 recently using that method.
If you have it empty and you have a long board (Like a 2X4X8) and another person to help, you might be able to raise it. Use the board and a fulcrum, like a log or rock, to lift and have another person shove in a logs underneath. If you have a pickup with a trailer hitch, you could screw in two large hooks into heavy floor joist on each side and attach chains or heavy rope to your truck. Most 4-wheel drive trucks should be able to skid that shed. Especially if you keep shoving in logs for it to roll on. Heck, it the logs are round and the ground is level and hard, you might be able to move it by hand. Just move it slowly and keep putting more logs in front as the first logs get close to the half way point in the shed.
I try to get along with neighbors and I want to be reasonable with them.
I just wanted to a "fair" price. A lower price than I initially thought of is fair. Depending on how they are when I meet them, I might just give it to them. Those suggestions are appreciated as well.
The shed's front does not point to my house and in fact, it sits kinda far away, it would be more convenient for the future neighbors to use it. I'd have to clear trees in order to move it onto my property and I thought if it costs around 300 to move and a few hundred more to clear trees + preparing the place for it to sit, it probably is not worth it. Most of the property is very hilly, so earth would have to be leveled out for the shed.
Ooops, I used the word "tiles" for shingles in the earlier posts. Sorry about that.
Anyway, thanks again for all the comments and feedback.
Give it to them regardless of how they are. If they are nice people, great. If they are going to be problem neighbors, it's worth having this good will in the bank when you need it. It's well worth it since you will be living next to these people for a long time. TBH I would be shocked at a neighbor asking me to pay $1200 for an old deteriorating shed.
All these people wanting to tear the shed down or burn it. Those things cost a couple thousand dollars and that one looks in pretty good shape.
OP still hasn't told us why he owns a shed that is on the neighbor's property. It sounds a lot to me like the shed actually belongs to the neighbor because it is on the neighbor's property.
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