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.
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.