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Property Border Lines
On 1 Jul 2004 10:13:46 -0700, (KAB) wrote:
Infrequent poster here, and would appreciate any and all suggestions!
I purchased a home 1.5 years ago. At that time, the previous owner
assured me that there were stakes in the ground that would show me my
property lines. Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate them.
My property is approximately 1/2 an acre. This wouldn't be an issue,
except that there are bushes and trees separating my home from the
neighbors on either side of my house, and both fail to trim the bushes
or trees or clean-out the dead leaves, etc. underneath. I usually do
it - and did all last summer - because it affects the appearance of my
property. Last weekend, I took it upon myself to trim some of the
bushes on both sides of the property, only to have one of the
neighbors creep around the bushes to take a peek when he thought I
wasn't around. This, of course, made me wonder if I'm treading on
someone else's property and doing something I shouldn't be doing.
My documentation from settlement, including my land title insurance
property description, does not help. Short of hiring a surveyor and
paying to have someone show me where my property begins/ends, does
anyone have any other suggestions on how to determine the property
lines?
Some towns/cities are putting this information online, I know in my
town I can print out a property map with the dimensions...along with
an aerial picture that I used to help me locate the points. I can only
find one of the markers (I live on a corner, so in theory 3 of the
the markers are "hidden" by either the road or the new sidewalks).
If you can't find the stakes maybe getting someone to survey the land
isn't such a bad idea. We're about to do that now due to a problem.
There is a strip of bamboo and mixed trees behind us, then a little
"ditch" then a home. I let the bamboo grow up some so I wouldn't have
to see their house; I mow on one side of it and weedeat on the
otherside. The neighbors had a tree fall last year which prevented me
from getting in there until they removed it. I went walking back there
the other day and they had planted flowers and the like on my side of
the ditch. I asked them about it...the woman said "my grandmother used
to plant flowers there all of the time, it's more or less or
property". Uhmm...bull****. Now they want to take us to court over it.
:P
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