Oh, those wily neighbors do it again
Nice fellow called yesterday about getting his lot surveyed in a nearby city. He has lived in that house for over a decade without particularly caring where his boundaries are. Now, his next door neighbor decides to build a fence along the shared property line. He shows up at my client’s door telling him to move his pad mounted, large A/C unit because it is 10 inches over the line. Says he looked it up on his phone and that’s what it told him. My client says he won’t move anything without a survey. Neighbor gets all huffy about it. Says his phone wouldn’t lie. Some bad words get spoken by both parties.
My client has been to the city and to the county getting copies of deeds and old tax information. The A/C unit was installed in that location in 1984 so he is assuming he has rights to leave it there even if a survey shows it crossing the line. The bottom line is the neighbor is going to get a free survey because the client is sufficiently upset to pay to get one done just so he knows for sure what is what.
Sort of reminded me of showing up to do a survey about 30 years ago in a similar situation. The neighbor saw us pull up and start to unload our gear. He strolled over and announced, “Just so you know, I’m the A-hole that got you this job.” In that case, the neighbor was correct about where the boundary line was within a very few inches.
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