RicodJour wrote:
stay da course? wrote:
finally they are going to tell us where the property line is.
we bought this place with the understanding that there was an
encroachment.
a fence and chicken coup supposedly on our land.
Now , when we get the correct boundary , how to delicately get the
stuborn
old guy to move it?

Depending on your state's laws, you may not be able to make him move
it. Allowing an encroachment to exist for a certain amount of time can
give people rights to what is ostensibly your land. You bought knowing
there was an encroachment...

Time to talk to a lawyer.

R

Depends on the state as to the effect of
encroachment, certainly fencing encroached land
changes rights in some state, but has no effect in
other. My dad sold his place and the timber
company that bought it had the land surveyed.
They found that the actual property line was about
10 feet past the fence line. The timber company
immediately moved the fence over. My dad had
owned the land 50 years and the fence line was in
before he bought it. Funny thing, my dad tried
to buy a 10 foot strip over 14 mile long, the same
one indicated above, but the neighbor didn't want
to sell.