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Get another survey only of the shared property line. Have the surveyor sink rods and put up temporary flags. Have an attorney mail him a copy along with a polite letter. Total cost should be less than $500. Cost of an attorney if you get arrested would be at least $5000. Your neighbor does seem to want to stir things up. He is baiting you. Don't fall for it.
I'd get another one anyway and hand him a copy. And since he's being an ass, I wouldn't allow him to park his car on your property! Besides that, just ignore him! If he does anything that you can call the cops on....do it!
One thing, he is getting a survey done. There are times, that his survey will differ with your survey, it they are working from old legal descriptions. This may be a problem.
A lot of people think the line is here, and it really is there so to speak. We bought a home on an acre and a half in a mountain resort town. Survey found our property went up 200 feet further than the neighbor to the west thought. He thought the line was half way between our homes, but it went within 30 feet of his home. He had not gotten a survey when he bought the property a few years before we bought ours. We did get one. It was lightly forested between our homes with no fence between us. He was a little upset, to find what he actually owned. His other side, was against the National Forest.
Unfortunately the surveyor came out and put stakes up which the fence company tied string to and put the fence in (I was told 3 feet inside property line)...I have no paper from them, nit even a receipt. Fortunately, my wife remembered the name of the fence company and I will contact them tomorrow.
I don't plan on taking action unless he provokes me but I want to be prepared to act immediately. He's already parking his car on MY property...I'm letting that go cause it doesn't really bother me but it's crap like that that leads me to believe he wants trouble. I assure you, if my car was on his property, he'd call the police.
I see. I called the title co. that handled my sale, when I wanted to get a copy of my old survey. It had been over 20 years ago, and the co. had been sold, so they didn't have it, anymore. BUT I found a faxed copy of the old survey in my sales packet I got when I bought the house. (You know...that sales packet that has all the deeds, loan documents, title co. documents....and I had kept with that the correspondence I had rec'd from the title co. before the closing. That correspondence from the title co. included a fax of the survey.)
I hear you about that neighbor. Bizarre. I know how awful it must be. I had an issue with a neighbor once. It's hell on earth. I couldn't sleep or peacefully enjoy my condo. But they were renters and eventually moved out, thank goodness. I hope your situation ends well.
Glad you got your gun back. You can't post the story of how you got it back? That should be interesting.
I've got a neighbor who is just an absolute ass and I find I'm spending a lot of time thinking of ways to **** him off but I want to keep it legal. Any help (other than the just be the bigger man speech) is appreciated.
Unfortunately the surveyor came out and put stakes up which the fence company tied string to and put the fence in (I was told 3 feet inside property line)...I have no paper from them, nit even a receipt. Fortunately, my wife remembered the name of the fence company and I will contact them tomorrow.
I don't plan on taking action unless he provokes me but I want to be prepared to act immediately. He's already parking his car on MY property...I'm letting that go cause it doesn't really bother me but it's crap like that that leads me to believe he wants trouble. I assure you, if my car was on his property, he'd call the police.
The unfortunate part is that doesn't even begin to count as a professional survey being done. The fencers had a guy come out and mark for the grunt workers where the fence would go, nothing more. A professional survey comes with not only documents showing a map of the boundaries and the legal description, but preferably at least one permanent pin set at a corner of your lot as a marker, and, of course, a very large bill on their letterhead that you would have had to pay.
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