What is the name of your state? Florida
My husband and I purchased just under three acres of land. The piece of property is long and narrow and is literally cut in half by a protected skinny strip of wetlands, so we have usable property in the front and usable property in behind the wetlands. We built our house in the front part. We have NO WAY to get back to our wetlands unless we use a dirt road that is directly beside our property, which leads to our back property and a few acres that are behind our property. This extra few acres behind us is owned by someone else. Behind him is nothing but protected land. Anyway, when we purchased this property we were under the impression that we owned the dirt road beside us. We found out that this is not true, and then were told that we had an easement. We found out that this is also not true and was never documented. The man who owns the property behind us has put up a locked gate at the beginning of the road and now we have no way to get to our back property. We have talked with him and he refuses to give us easement.
We bought this acreage from my parents, who originally owned the entire parcel of land that we are all now on. We've talked with them and they blame the surveyor for not documenting the easement properly.
So now i'm at a loss of what to do and what legal actions we can take. We would like to use our property!
Another point, we have a large florida power pole on the back of our property and we can't do anything within so many feet of the pole, so we have to give them easement...how can we give them easement and accessibility if we don't even have an easement or accessibility??
THANK YOU!
My husband and I purchased just under three acres of land. The piece of property is long and narrow and is literally cut in half by a protected skinny strip of wetlands, so we have usable property in the front and usable property in behind the wetlands. We built our house in the front part. We have NO WAY to get back to our wetlands unless we use a dirt road that is directly beside our property, which leads to our back property and a few acres that are behind our property. This extra few acres behind us is owned by someone else. Behind him is nothing but protected land. Anyway, when we purchased this property we were under the impression that we owned the dirt road beside us. We found out that this is not true, and then were told that we had an easement. We found out that this is also not true and was never documented. The man who owns the property behind us has put up a locked gate at the beginning of the road and now we have no way to get to our back property. We have talked with him and he refuses to give us easement.
We bought this acreage from my parents, who originally owned the entire parcel of land that we are all now on. We've talked with them and they blame the surveyor for not documenting the easement properly.
So now i'm at a loss of what to do and what legal actions we can take. We would like to use our property!
Another point, we have a large florida power pole on the back of our property and we can't do anything within so many feet of the pole, so we have to give them easement...how can we give them easement and accessibility if we don't even have an easement or accessibility??
THANK YOU!
