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What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? New Jersey
I live in a community of small lots. Our lot is 75 ft wide by 100 ft long. Our neighbor has been putting up rock walls, not for retaining purpose, but for decorative purposes on our side of the property line. The neighbor is on our left side. We do have a survey stake in the front. She has put rocks of the natural variety right over on our side of the boundary line, not by much though. (Once she even covered the stake, until my wife told her that was illegal.)
This bothered me at first because she (the neighbor) never asked permission to put the rocks there. There is a retaining wall along certain parts of the property line that has been there for years (we have the higher property), but wherever the land is even on both sides or does not need a retaining wall, the neighbor puts rocks on our side of the property. She has recently done the same on the back left side of the property. The rocks go a foot or two on our property into our boundary there. In a couple of places she has cemented rocks or blocks that start on her side of the line but come across the boundary line (this was not done for retaining purposes). She has also but up a portable shed on her property. This is in the back where we don't have a stake but my “naked eye” suspects this is overlapping on our property and it certainly didn't need to. I want to keep good relations with my neighbor but I also think she needs to respect boundary lines. I don't trust her because she did the same thing to the neighbor on her other side. In the case of the property on her other side, she waited until the house was vacant (while it was in the process of being sold), and cemented down a very unattractive rock wall on their property that borders her driveway.
Any advice on how to regain the property line and to get her to respect it (civilly that is) would be greatly appreciated.
I live in a community of small lots. Our lot is 75 ft wide by 100 ft long. Our neighbor has been putting up rock walls, not for retaining purpose, but for decorative purposes on our side of the property line. The neighbor is on our left side. We do have a survey stake in the front. She has put rocks of the natural variety right over on our side of the boundary line, not by much though. (Once she even covered the stake, until my wife told her that was illegal.)
This bothered me at first because she (the neighbor) never asked permission to put the rocks there. There is a retaining wall along certain parts of the property line that has been there for years (we have the higher property), but wherever the land is even on both sides or does not need a retaining wall, the neighbor puts rocks on our side of the property. She has recently done the same on the back left side of the property. The rocks go a foot or two on our property into our boundary there. In a couple of places she has cemented rocks or blocks that start on her side of the line but come across the boundary line (this was not done for retaining purposes). She has also but up a portable shed on her property. This is in the back where we don't have a stake but my “naked eye” suspects this is overlapping on our property and it certainly didn't need to. I want to keep good relations with my neighbor but I also think she needs to respect boundary lines. I don't trust her because she did the same thing to the neighbor on her other side. In the case of the property on her other side, she waited until the house was vacant (while it was in the process of being sold), and cemented down a very unattractive rock wall on their property that borders her driveway.
Any advice on how to regain the property line and to get her to respect it (civilly that is) would be greatly appreciated.
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