What is the name of your state? new york
we've owned a cottage on a lake for 31 years with a right of way bordering our property to the north. the right of way is for all to use its only 20' wide and nobody ever uses it and there is a fence that has been there since we've owned the place on what we thought was the property line. in 1993 a survey was done and we found out that the fence was not the property line and if fact the line was two feet onto our property. nothing was ever done about it and nobody cared. we continued to maintain the fence and the property. the woman who had owned the property(she pays the taxes on it) never said a word and she also never even used the property. she recently sold the right of way and the new owners want us to move the fence and our possessins that are on the 2' of property. the new owners never did a survey and some of the old survey stakes are missing. they have retained a lawyer and we have a few weeks to move the fence. do we have to? if that fence is not ours then doesnt that fence have to be on their property a certain distance?
we've owned a cottage on a lake for 31 years with a right of way bordering our property to the north. the right of way is for all to use its only 20' wide and nobody ever uses it and there is a fence that has been there since we've owned the place on what we thought was the property line. in 1993 a survey was done and we found out that the fence was not the property line and if fact the line was two feet onto our property. nothing was ever done about it and nobody cared. we continued to maintain the fence and the property. the woman who had owned the property(she pays the taxes on it) never said a word and she also never even used the property. she recently sold the right of way and the new owners want us to move the fence and our possessins that are on the 2' of property. the new owners never did a survey and some of the old survey stakes are missing. they have retained a lawyer and we have a few weeks to move the fence. do we have to? if that fence is not ours then doesnt that fence have to be on their property a certain distance?