What is the name of your state? Florida
We recently moved to the state of Florida and purchase a townhouse. It is a small 11 units townhouse community, and the real estate agent did not mention anything about a covenent through out the sale of the townhouse. The majority of the units were already fully or at least partially fenced in.
Actually, the only two units that did not have a fence seperating the adjacent backyards were our unit and the end unit adjacent to us. Our neighbor on that side has been acting like our landlord instead of a neighbor since day 1. We finally put up a fence between our two backyard earlier this month. We were then informed that there is a covenant recorded prohibiting fences. We looked at our deed and that covenant (which county book it was recorded) was mentioned in it. We were just so busy signing all the paper during closing that we did not even notice it.
However, since 9 units out of 11 have fully or partially fenced in backyard (some looks like they have been there for years), should this clause in effect be already terminated by abandonment? Our neighbor is taking action leading up to a civil suit against our fence right now. I tried to look up, and I found one case in RI in favor of us. Anyone knows about Florida?What is the name of your state?
We recently moved to the state of Florida and purchase a townhouse. It is a small 11 units townhouse community, and the real estate agent did not mention anything about a covenent through out the sale of the townhouse. The majority of the units were already fully or at least partially fenced in.
Actually, the only two units that did not have a fence seperating the adjacent backyards were our unit and the end unit adjacent to us. Our neighbor on that side has been acting like our landlord instead of a neighbor since day 1. We finally put up a fence between our two backyard earlier this month. We were then informed that there is a covenant recorded prohibiting fences. We looked at our deed and that covenant (which county book it was recorded) was mentioned in it. We were just so busy signing all the paper during closing that we did not even notice it.
However, since 9 units out of 11 have fully or partially fenced in backyard (some looks like they have been there for years), should this clause in effect be already terminated by abandonment? Our neighbor is taking action leading up to a civil suit against our fence right now. I tried to look up, and I found one case in RI in favor of us. Anyone knows about Florida?What is the name of your state?