My barn is on neighbor's land

[Washwo]

The survey was clear that the barn is well over the line. Nobody ever said anything. I offered him money, land, you name it. He wants to expand his domain. AND he hates us. HATES us. He is on the opposite side of the political spectrum and the neighborhood is all the other way.

I won't say who's who...but he is interested in private property rights big time. He also has an NRA sticker on his TITAN truck and a pair of playboy silhouettes on his mud-flaps.

He has threatened me before, and I am afraid of him and his money..

I need to let him have whatever he wants...I am a poor cancer patient, with little income, a retired professor with no fight in me.

 

[LdiJ]

The survey was clear that the barn is well over the line. Nobody ever said anything. I offered him money, land, you name it. He wants to expand his domain. AND he hates us. HATES us. He is on the opposite side of the political spectrum and the neighborhood is all the other way.

I won't say who's who...but he is interested in private property rights big time. He also has an NRA sticker on his TITAN truck and a pair of playboy silhouettes on his mud-flaps.

He has threatened me before, and I am afraid of him and his money..

I need to let him have whatever he wants...I am a poor cancer patient, with little income, a retired professor with no fight in me.

Then maybe you should offer to sell him your share of the acreage the barn sits on, and then he can do whatever he likes.

 

[nextwife]

Why would the OP? The barn has been there for over 100 years. Why would anyone assume that they needed to get a boundary survey for something that had been there for 100 years?

OP, your neighbor doesn't want to incur the costs of tearing down your barn. Your neighbor wants money or something else in exchange for leaving your barn alone. Your neighbor's gain in the increased crop income will never overcome his cost of tearing down your barn...not for 3 feet's worth.

You apparently don't have any money but if you have land you can exchange that would be the way to go. Find out what your neighbor wants.

Being there any length of time has no bearing on who's land it is on. Before spending all that money, they should have properly verified it was theirs, on their land, and obtained an eament or quit claim from the now decased neighbor.

The neighbor can take legal action to be reimbursed for the cost of the encroachinh structure. They are better off working out a lnad swap, or trying to buy an easement.