Been there and done that with bad neighbors in the past. I had a place surveyed, steel stakes driven, with engineers tag attached. Few days later, stakes were gone... called back the certified survey guy.. new stakes.... week later... gone again... Solution: Engineer wrote up the boundary description, down to the inch, measured from stakes on the other side of property line that joined the offending neighbor.. who has decided long before I bought the place that "he was just gonna use what he wanted of the old folks who lived there property".... I upset him by buying it and surveying it properly... During the episodes, I went to court and got it on legal record that the garage he had built was 11 ft over my property line. Court ruled in my favor, and also ruled there was a 20 ft utility easement between the properties... and that the garage had to be demolished...
Not to say I celebrated, but the shade tent, with lawn chairs and BBQ and beer for all my friends who came to watch the garage be demolished provided an afternoons entertainment.. The debris from building destruction was pushed past the easement onto his property... then I took him back to court to order "removal of the community eyesore" .... which again, got judgement in my favor... Demolished the old house on my property, built a new modern home, landscaped the property [about 5 acres] and sold it for a tidy profit and moved on to lifes next adventure.. On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:34 AM Scott Ritchey via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The actual stakes will disappear eventually but there should be iron > pipes, rods, or pins buried in the dirt to mark the precise property > lines. But these are HARD to find without one of those special metal > detectors. So I measure these locations wrt fixed objects, like power > poles, road centerlines, trees, buildings, etc., while the stakes are there > so I can find them again > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of > > Allan Streib via Mercedes > > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2020 10:59 PM > > To: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Cc: Allan Streib <astr...@indiana.edu> > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] idiot neighbors > > > > Any time I have bought a property I have always paid for a staked > survey. I like > > to know exactly where the property lines are. > > > > Allan > > > > Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > > > > > In unincorporated Hillsborough County where I live, if you put a fence > up > > without a permit it can be removed by the County. If it encroaches on the > > adjacent property, the property owner can pretty much do whatever they > > want to it. > > > > > > Fence companies in the area won’t even talk to you unless you have an > > original copy of a survey for your property. The County permit requires > it, too. > > > > > > -D > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
