Found out property line crosses our lawn

[Argo]

I was checking out our county's online plat map, and found out that property line with our neighbor is ~10ft south of where we thought it was. According to the plat map, it cuts off a chunk of our lawn, and in one place gets within 3 ft of our house.

Had anybody ever dealt with something like this? How accurate are those online plat maps? Their map doesn't line up with our stake posts, which makes me wonder if their map is incorrect (or at least the portion where they overlay it with google-earth view).

 

[Argo]

Oops, wrong forum, can moderator please move this to off-topic....

 

[waggy]

I was checking out our county's online plat map, and found out that property line with our neighbor is ~10ft south of where we thought it was. According to the plat map, it cuts off a chunk of our lawn, and in one place gets within 3 ft of our house.

Had anybody ever dealt with something like this? How accurate are those online plat maps? Their map doesn't line up with our stake posts, which makes me wonder if their map is incorrect (or at least the portion where they overlay it with google-earth view).

have a survey company out. they will nail everything down to the exact place (cost about 800(

 

[berzerker60]

Regardless if it's been that way for enough years it's now yours. It's called adverse possession. See a famous case: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/texas-man-claims-mansion-16/story?id=14099714#.Udn96m0yhLg

 

[SparkyJJO]

Given that I saw one of those online maps show a plot line go straight through a house that I was looking at once I wouldn't trust them too much

 

[Phoenix86]

Regardless if it's been that way for enough years it's now yours. It's called adverse possession. See a famous case: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/texas-man-claims-mansion-16/story?id=14099714#.Udn96m0yhLg

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tarrant/adverse-179365701.html

FORT WORTH — David Cooper, the man who claimed a law dating back to the 1800s gave him legal permission to occupy a home that was not his, has been found guilty of burglary and theft in a Tarrant County courtroom.

Good luck with that.

 

[waggy]

Regardless if it's been that way for enough years it's now yours. It's called adverse possession. See a famous case: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/texas-man-claims-mansion-16/story?id=14099714#.Udn96m0yhLg

not every state has it. also there are limits on it.

 

[boomhower]

If your that concerned have a survey done. It's not cheap but once done correctly and good anchors put in it won't have to be done again.

 

[Newbian]

I would leave it alone as bringing this up could just cause a big bag of trouble.

 

[mpo]

I was checking out our county's online plat map, and found out that property line with our neighbor is ~10ft south of where we thought it was. According to the plat map, it cuts off a chunk of our lawn, and in one place gets within 3 ft of our house.

Had anybody ever dealt with something like this? How accurate are those online plat maps? Their map doesn't line up with our stake posts, which makes me wonder if their map is incorrect (or at least the portion where they overlay it with google-earth view).

The only way to legally determine your property boundaries is through a survey.

I would not trust a web site to provide an accurate assessment of your property lines. The aerial photos could come from Bing maps, the plat could come from a CAD file. The problems you are seeing can be within the tolerances when the source files are overlaid.

Also, I would be surprised if the web site didn't have a disclaimer to the likes of "this web site is for informational purposes only. It is not a legal survey and should not be used as one".

 

[Wreckem]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tarrant/adverse-179365701.html

FORT WORTH — David Cooper, the man who claimed a law dating back to the 1800s gave him legal permission to occupy a home that was not his, has been found guilty of burglary and theft in a Tarrant County courtroom.

Good luck with that.

Adverse possession still works. Just not in the way those dumb-asses thought. These days it usually only arises out of boundary disputes/mistaken boundary issues.

If someone painstakingly(or purposefully) builds their fence on your property and you don't do/say anything about it, they can later file claim to that land after the statutory period. If someone continuously traverses part of your land and you don't say/do anything and the statutory period runs they have an easement by prescription. Trying to say a piece of property is abandoned and then claiming adverse possession using the abandonment time frame rarely works because rarely is a piece of real property actually abandoned as vacant does not equal abandoned.

 

[Phoenix86]

Adverse possession still works. Just not in the way those dumb-asses thought. These days it usually only arises out of boundary disputes/mistaken boundary issues.

If someone painstakingly(or purposefully) builds their fence on your property and you don't do/say anything about it, they can later file claim to that land after the statutory period. If someone continuously traverses part of your land and you don't say/do anything and the statutory period runs they have an easement by prescription. Trying to say a piece of property is abandoned and then claiming adverse possession using the abandonment time frame rarely works because rarely is a piece of real property actually abandoned as vacant does not equal abandoned.

It can work, but if you do it wrong you can go to jail. Risk:reward.

If you plan on claiming it, hire a competent lawyer first.

 

[marvdmartian]

have a survey company out. they will nail everything down to the exact place (cost about 800(

Yikes! Not sure where you're at, but my survey (when I bought my house) was considerably less.....like $150-ish!