want to be reimbursed for land

[yjgab]

What is the name of your state? Maryland
Please help. We are new homeowners on a shared driveway. All of the 4 new homeowners were unaware of our property lines because the builder never clarified what we own. We just assumed from the "plat" drawings that our property lines ran along the edge of the driveway, as the "plat" shows. The problem is that the buider did NOT run the driveway along the boundaries at all. He cut the driveway in the middle of our front yard. Furthermore, we own half of our neighbors newly fenced in yard, and have paid for that land, and pay taxes on it. We only recently discovered this. So, we have a much smaller front yard and our neigbors have much larger back yards that we don't even want but we pay for their use. It's not that we want them off our property as much as we don't want the land. We would never use it, all the way down the road. But we did pay for a significant amount of it, not even knowing it was our land. Nobody told us. What should we do???? Please advise.

[HomeGuru]

Originally Posted by yjgab

What is the name of your state? Maryland
Please help. We are new homeowners on a shared driveway. All of the 4 new homeowners were unaware of our property lines because the builder never clarified what we own. We just assumed from the "plat" drawings that our property lines ran along the edge of the driveway, as the "plat" shows. The problem is that the buider did NOT run the driveway along the boundaries at all. He cut the driveway in the middle of our front yard. Furthermore, we own half of our neighbors newly fenced in yard, and have paid for that land, and pay taxes on it. We only recently discovered this. So, we have a much smaller front yard and our neigbors have much larger back yards that we don't even want but we pay for their use. It's not that we want them off our property as much as we don't want the land. We would never use it, all the way down the road. But we did pay for a significant amount of it, not even knowing it was our land. Nobody told us. What should we do???? Please advise.

**A: when you get a current survey of your property, post back.

[yjgab]

Originally Posted by HomeGuru

**A: when you get a current survey of your property, post back.

we did. that's how we found out this big mess. we thought our property was within much smaller boundaries. this was based on the builder's foreman telling us that our owned property was within these 4 stakes in a perfect little rectangle. NOT THE CASE AT ALL. we own alot more and we go into a long L shape. we don't / didn't ever want all this land that we paid for, we didn't know we even bought it or that we pay taxes on it until i talked with the survey engineer who staked the property. our builder wants no part of it, but the "revised plat" and a conversation with the survey engineer show that the driveway is not at all where it was planned to be either. isn't our builder responsible for relaying the driveway according to the "plat", or something?

thanks so much for replying so quickly.