shawnandjenny
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Indiana
We bought our house 6 years ago and were told we were buying 2 acres, and our survery showed all of our property in our bounderies. We never had a problem until the neighbors moved and we got new neighbors. The new neighbors built a large garage/pull barn in their back yard, facing our driveway. They then started driving up & down our driveway to get to it. When this started we only had one child, but obviously we weren't happy. We confronted the neighbors. They told usl they had a written paper between the first owner of our house & their's stating they own a sliver of our driveway. They get angry when we park a car on "their" property. We went back and forth on it and we actually called the police at one point. We were told that we would have to settle it in court. They finally had a survery done and the stakes showed they were right. It was the same survery company that did our survery. Since the survey they did they have planted trees directly on the property line and built a mulch driveway from the top of our driveway to their garage. They use the driveway as if its their own. Last summer they started selling plants and flowers from their back yard, letting everyone use our driveway to access them. I have two children,who can play in the backyard when this is going on. They tell us the plants are from a nursery who just doesn't want them and they are selling them for $ but we can tell people whatever and keep the difference. They are selling these plants again. I want to know if there is anything we can do. Can they just claim use of our driveway? Can they just sell plants out of their backyard like a business? I would guess they sold between 100-300 plants/trees last year.
We bought our house 6 years ago and were told we were buying 2 acres, and our survery showed all of our property in our bounderies. We never had a problem until the neighbors moved and we got new neighbors. The new neighbors built a large garage/pull barn in their back yard, facing our driveway. They then started driving up & down our driveway to get to it. When this started we only had one child, but obviously we weren't happy. We confronted the neighbors. They told usl they had a written paper between the first owner of our house & their's stating they own a sliver of our driveway. They get angry when we park a car on "their" property. We went back and forth on it and we actually called the police at one point. We were told that we would have to settle it in court. They finally had a survery done and the stakes showed they were right. It was the same survery company that did our survery. Since the survey they did they have planted trees directly on the property line and built a mulch driveway from the top of our driveway to their garage. They use the driveway as if its their own. Last summer they started selling plants and flowers from their back yard, letting everyone use our driveway to access them. I have two children,who can play in the backyard when this is going on. They tell us the plants are from a nursery who just doesn't want them and they are selling them for $ but we can tell people whatever and keep the difference. They are selling these plants again. I want to know if there is anything we can do. Can they just claim use of our driveway? Can they just sell plants out of their backyard like a business? I would guess they sold between 100-300 plants/trees last year.
