davedavalan
Junior Member
Missouri
my father recently passed away and left the house I rented from him to my brother. My brother is signing the deed over to me. Here's the problem: There are 3 plots adjacent to each other. (my house, a store and a small piece in between the two. My dad owned all 3, and the previous owner owned all 3 plots plus one in back of all these 3 which is up for sale.). hopefully you can understand this layout.
Where the store property lines ends, it drops off a hill to the piece in the middle and then up a hill to my house. Surveyors were here last week and placed the property corners. The middle part comes over to what I thought was my property and includes where my dad installed the sewer drainage field for the house. I also have a above ground swimming pool on this middle section and a shed. The property line for this middle section also crosses over a concrete porch off my basement which houses the well pump to my house. The property stake in front of house actually angles towards the house to the stake in the back. During the 20 years I've lived here, there was no concerns, I guess because dad owned all of this. The store is commercial property. Also, on the other side of my house, the property line is 14 feet from fence put up from other owner of that property. My entire driveway is on the other guys property! Although this driveway was there when dad bought the house 20 years ago, and nothing has ever been said about it.(All of these owners have been friends for years) My brother is trying to get the middle section added to my plot. My question and or concern is, how could this have happened to begin with and can this middle section be added to my plot. One other thing, the store is actually on a different street as mine (corner lot). We live out in the country as well. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This seems so weird to me, as these 3 plots are so chopped up.
my father recently passed away and left the house I rented from him to my brother. My brother is signing the deed over to me. Here's the problem: There are 3 plots adjacent to each other. (my house, a store and a small piece in between the two. My dad owned all 3, and the previous owner owned all 3 plots plus one in back of all these 3 which is up for sale.). hopefully you can understand this layout.
Where the store property lines ends, it drops off a hill to the piece in the middle and then up a hill to my house. Surveyors were here last week and placed the property corners. The middle part comes over to what I thought was my property and includes where my dad installed the sewer drainage field for the house. I also have a above ground swimming pool on this middle section and a shed. The property line for this middle section also crosses over a concrete porch off my basement which houses the well pump to my house. The property stake in front of house actually angles towards the house to the stake in the back. During the 20 years I've lived here, there was no concerns, I guess because dad owned all of this. The store is commercial property. Also, on the other side of my house, the property line is 14 feet from fence put up from other owner of that property. My entire driveway is on the other guys property! Although this driveway was there when dad bought the house 20 years ago, and nothing has ever been said about it.(All of these owners have been friends for years) My brother is trying to get the middle section added to my plot. My question and or concern is, how could this have happened to begin with and can this middle section be added to my plot. One other thing, the store is actually on a different street as mine (corner lot). We live out in the country as well. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This seems so weird to me, as these 3 plots are so chopped up.