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jacksonsara
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What is the name of your state? GA
Hi all,
My husband and I bought out house in November 2003. When we moved in, our neighbor was in the process of adding a second story to his house. We did not have a survey on our house but had to get one this spring in order to get the permits to build a deck. Low and behold, about 18" of the neighbor's driveway and a few inches of his addition are on our property.
When my husband showed the neighbor our survey, he said our survey was wrong.
We know that this guy tried to buy part of our property from the previous owner. He wouldn't sell it. Our neighbor served as his own general contractor so we're not surprised that he might have 'goofed'. Further the surveyor noted that you can see where the neighbor's driveway pins were moved over (towards our house).
We do not want to have to pay for lawyers to sort this out -- we feel like the neighbor should pay any legal fees incurred. We've been very agreeable about this when we started this process four months ago -- we'll take a property swap or we'll sell the land to the neighbor. But now he's avoiding us. We don't even know where to start -- call a lawyer, call the mortgage company, call the county???
Any advice is appreciated,
Sara
Hi all,
My husband and I bought out house in November 2003. When we moved in, our neighbor was in the process of adding a second story to his house. We did not have a survey on our house but had to get one this spring in order to get the permits to build a deck. Low and behold, about 18" of the neighbor's driveway and a few inches of his addition are on our property.
When my husband showed the neighbor our survey, he said our survey was wrong.
We know that this guy tried to buy part of our property from the previous owner. He wouldn't sell it. Our neighbor served as his own general contractor so we're not surprised that he might have 'goofed'. Further the surveyor noted that you can see where the neighbor's driveway pins were moved over (towards our house).
We do not want to have to pay for lawyers to sort this out -- we feel like the neighbor should pay any legal fees incurred. We've been very agreeable about this when we started this process four months ago -- we'll take a property swap or we'll sell the land to the neighbor. But now he's avoiding us. We don't even know where to start -- call a lawyer, call the mortgage company, call the county???
Any advice is appreciated,
Sara