How to get my property line correct???

Question

What to do abt ** neigbor claim on property line eventhogh title deed shows it' mine? Could I built a fence on my rightful property line? They are a bucnh of sick ** I don't want to waste money to get a lawyer, Advise???

Answer 1

Have your corners marked (in the ground metal stakes and papers issued, not wooden posts). Then call your city engineers to enforce code and the police if they have altered your property or encroached in any way. Then put up a fence just inside your property line and send them a registered, return receipt letter informing them that your land has been legally surveyed, that the fence is just inside your property line and that you do not want them on your land for any reason. Oh and do post no trespassing signs. They do not have the right to even lean something against your fence. If they cause you any problems, call the police. If you allow someone to use your property and have not informed them(provable) that they are using your property, they can claim your property by adverse possession. I have the same mentality of neighbors and it is always something. Now they have dumped dirt so that they are higher than me and with the last rain, I had a pool in my front yard plus they stacked up bricks to make a wall against my fence and piled up about a foot of dirt. I informed them some time ago that I was going to move my fence over just inside my line. And today I told them, nicely of course, to move their bricks and dirt and we came up with a drainage solution for some of the problem. I probably shouldn't call the cops because he is one. lots of luck.

Answer 2

You should have a survey of the property which was done when the property was purchased.Even though it will show you the exact lines where your property begins and ends, there may be an easement, or area away from the exact property line, on which your fence, driveway, garage, home,etc. can be built. If we didn't have easements, some people would build their homes from the very front of their property line to the very back with no setbacks and no space to work on the waterlines if they broke, not to mention how rediculous it would look to have a house sitting right up against the curb of the street. That is why on most city streets all of the homes will be be placed approximately the same distance from the street. You will have to read your deed restrictions and see if you are allowed to build a fence on your exact property line. If you don't fully understand it, and don't want to spend the money on an attorney to explain it; which would most likely only make you more confused by their legal jargon (they are taught to speak this way in law school so we will think they are brilliant), then you can go to your local County Commissioner's office and speak with someone there. You will probably be able to speak to your Commissioner him or herself. That is why we have elected officials. You would be surprised at how willing our elected officials are to accomodate Joe Q. Public. Ask the Commissioner or his/her representative to explain to you and your neighbor just exactly where you have a right to build a fence. Then obtain the proper building permit, and if your neighbor is not a very delightful person, I recommend that you build the highest fence your deed restrictions allow and if he/she doesn't want to be neighborly, then pretend they no longer live there and go on about your life being thankful that you even own a property to put a fence on at all.

Answer 3

Find a platt map for your area. It will tell you where the lot pins are. You can use a metal detector to find them, too, or you can measure based on the map and find them that way. Most are buried about 6" underground.

You can probably build a fence, but keep in mind that in most areas, your fence has to be so many feet INSIDE of your property line (here it is 18").

Answer 4

Get the legal description from your deed, get a copy of the plat map through the county recorder, and hire a professional surveyor to mark the boundary. If your neighbor wants to dispute the boundary line they'll have to hire a surveyor, etc. themselves.

Answer 5

Most states make you have the property surveyed...sometimes the maps overlap...whoever surveys first gets the property...If it is yours you can build a fence, and let them get a lawyer, but if the maps are wrong and they do a survey first, they will win.

Answer 6

you build a fence just inside your property line...not on it.......no money for a lawyer? waste of money anyway....better have some for a surveyor, before you build.........