NWNeighbor
Junior Member
I live in OREGON
My neighbor and I have had an overgrown laurel hedge that served as a boundary between our properties for the past eight years, and for two previous owners back to the early nineties. And we've been working this year to try and establish a good property line on the cheap (without the expense of a surveyor) So as one might guess, someone gets too rigid about where the line is supposed to go and things go south and someone hires a surveyor, and the surveyor places a line five feet from where everyone thought it was.
So.. Oregon statute has a 10 year adverse posession time period that's pretty well established here through three consecutive owners of this parcel that's had the adverse use of the 500 square foot strip of land back to the late eighties. But I've been told that such use can't be with knowledge of where the actual line really is. And now, everyone knows where the actual line is.
I'm feeling like I must sue my neighbor for the ground or lose the option to do it.
My neighbor has gone quite beligerant and wants to fence off the land as close to my house as he can possibly get. And create as much of a nuisance for me as he can. He's driving surveyors stakes across my yard, but he's fearful I'm trying to steal his land. It's very confusing.
We both have other priorities at the moment. How long can we stand still? What is the shelf life of this thing if we try to back burner it?
He's a nice guy who just doesn't know the law very well. We've got him on all points of the adverse posession. He can't win if he fights it. He can just only spend a bunch of money and lose. And delay.. And complicate our lives.. all for ground he hasn't had a claim to in ten years.
My neighbor and I have had an overgrown laurel hedge that served as a boundary between our properties for the past eight years, and for two previous owners back to the early nineties. And we've been working this year to try and establish a good property line on the cheap (without the expense of a surveyor) So as one might guess, someone gets too rigid about where the line is supposed to go and things go south and someone hires a surveyor, and the surveyor places a line five feet from where everyone thought it was.
So.. Oregon statute has a 10 year adverse posession time period that's pretty well established here through three consecutive owners of this parcel that's had the adverse use of the 500 square foot strip of land back to the late eighties. But I've been told that such use can't be with knowledge of where the actual line really is. And now, everyone knows where the actual line is.
I'm feeling like I must sue my neighbor for the ground or lose the option to do it.
My neighbor has gone quite beligerant and wants to fence off the land as close to my house as he can possibly get. And create as much of a nuisance for me as he can. He's driving surveyors stakes across my yard, but he's fearful I'm trying to steal his land. It's very confusing.
We both have other priorities at the moment. How long can we stand still? What is the shelf life of this thing if we try to back burner it?
He's a nice guy who just doesn't know the law very well. We've got him on all points of the adverse posession. He can't win if he fights it. He can just only spend a bunch of money and lose. And delay.. And complicate our lives.. all for ground he hasn't had a claim to in ten years.
