curiousinnc
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? North Carolina
In 2002 I bought a church that had been closed down. After moving here, we found out that a neighbor above us (which in not landlocked and has a completely different easement off of another persons property on their deed) had been using the back of our property to get to their land above us. Their perpetual easement given to them on their deed was never established so we gave them permission (because they are family) to use our property to get to theirs in the agreement that they would eventually use the easement given to them on their deed. We started with 3 vehicles and that had family as visitors and now 95% of the traffic and wear and tear is theirs and they tried to get logging trucks up through but we threw a fit because they caved our water easement in because the truck was bigger and wider than the drive. We tried discussing that the traffic had gotten to be a bit too much and that we didn't like the fact that cars were hanging around just sitting in the middle of the roads because we don't know who they are or what they are doing there and they just snickered at us. Ever since then everybody that uses my property to get to theirs snubs my husband and I if we wave at them. They think that because they have driven on it longer than we have lived there that they have more rights to it than we do. They are treating it like it is a public road. If it wasn't for letting them use our property their wouldn't even be a lane there for anyone to travel because the easement on my deed stops and turns into the beginning of my property and we would have used it for our driveway. My question is this, if you give someone permission to use your property to get to their home, do they have the right to invite anybody to cross your property without consulting with us? As a landowner, legally who has the say so to who is going to cross my property with permission?
In 2002 I bought a church that had been closed down. After moving here, we found out that a neighbor above us (which in not landlocked and has a completely different easement off of another persons property on their deed) had been using the back of our property to get to their land above us. Their perpetual easement given to them on their deed was never established so we gave them permission (because they are family) to use our property to get to theirs in the agreement that they would eventually use the easement given to them on their deed. We started with 3 vehicles and that had family as visitors and now 95% of the traffic and wear and tear is theirs and they tried to get logging trucks up through but we threw a fit because they caved our water easement in because the truck was bigger and wider than the drive. We tried discussing that the traffic had gotten to be a bit too much and that we didn't like the fact that cars were hanging around just sitting in the middle of the roads because we don't know who they are or what they are doing there and they just snickered at us. Ever since then everybody that uses my property to get to theirs snubs my husband and I if we wave at them. They think that because they have driven on it longer than we have lived there that they have more rights to it than we do. They are treating it like it is a public road. If it wasn't for letting them use our property their wouldn't even be a lane there for anyone to travel because the easement on my deed stops and turns into the beginning of my property and we would have used it for our driveway. My question is this, if you give someone permission to use your property to get to their home, do they have the right to invite anybody to cross your property without consulting with us? As a landowner, legally who has the say so to who is going to cross my property with permission?