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RuthK
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My residence property that I own has an easement throgh the south 32 feet for my neighbors driveway.
My neighbor has gotten nasty with me over it and I am curious as to what my rights to my property covered by the driveway easement are ? And What are my neighbors rights to the easement he has over my property?
My neighbor has informed me that he has the right to mow, maintain,repair and improve the easement and that I have no such rights on the easement, he has informed me that he may alter the drive from gravel to asphalt and he says he has the right to widen the drive way that has been 12 foot 8 inches since we bought the property, and the remainder of the property is a grass lawn, my neighbor has erected a 4x4 post with his name and address sign on the easement within my property boundries and he has planted trees and arborative hedge type bushes on our property within the easement, I have had the property surveyed in 1998 and the sign is within my property boundries but located within the driveway easement.My neighbor has told us that they may park on the easement but that we may not park our vechicles on our lawn that is within the easement but not interefering with their use of the driveway in any way.
My neighbor was the previous owner of my property and had sold it to his son with the easement agreement then the property was sold once more before we bought it with the easement intact in the deed.
And just lately his son has been very verbally abusive and confrontational with us in respect to the easement and they had a lawyer write us a letter stateing we were interfereing with their use of the easement.
My deed says nothing in respect to easement maintience.
So whom has the rights to easement maintence etc?
My deed in 1979 states I quote
" the tract of real estate herein conveyed is further specifically made subject to an easement of ingress and egress, over, upon and across a passageway located on the south 32.00 feet of the real property descibed above, on which there exists a driveway running generally in an east-west direction, and said easement is reserved for the benifit of all present and future owners of the realestate conveyed hereunder, it being agreed that such easement is perpetual in nature."
Can some own help us resolve this matter with our neighbor, we would like to as quickly and civily and peacefully as possible.
Thankyou RuthK
My residence property that I own has an easement throgh the south 32 feet for my neighbors driveway.
My neighbor has gotten nasty with me over it and I am curious as to what my rights to my property covered by the driveway easement are ? And What are my neighbors rights to the easement he has over my property?
My neighbor has informed me that he has the right to mow, maintain,repair and improve the easement and that I have no such rights on the easement, he has informed me that he may alter the drive from gravel to asphalt and he says he has the right to widen the drive way that has been 12 foot 8 inches since we bought the property, and the remainder of the property is a grass lawn, my neighbor has erected a 4x4 post with his name and address sign on the easement within my property boundries and he has planted trees and arborative hedge type bushes on our property within the easement, I have had the property surveyed in 1998 and the sign is within my property boundries but located within the driveway easement.My neighbor has told us that they may park on the easement but that we may not park our vechicles on our lawn that is within the easement but not interefering with their use of the driveway in any way.
My neighbor was the previous owner of my property and had sold it to his son with the easement agreement then the property was sold once more before we bought it with the easement intact in the deed.
And just lately his son has been very verbally abusive and confrontational with us in respect to the easement and they had a lawyer write us a letter stateing we were interfereing with their use of the easement.
My deed says nothing in respect to easement maintience.
So whom has the rights to easement maintence etc?
My deed in 1979 states I quote
" the tract of real estate herein conveyed is further specifically made subject to an easement of ingress and egress, over, upon and across a passageway located on the south 32.00 feet of the real property descibed above, on which there exists a driveway running generally in an east-west direction, and said easement is reserved for the benifit of all present and future owners of the realestate conveyed hereunder, it being agreed that such easement is perpetual in nature."
Can some own help us resolve this matter with our neighbor, we would like to as quickly and civily and peacefully as possible.
Thankyou RuthK