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I'll try to spare you the dirty deets, but my wife and I purchased a house we'd already been living in for a few years around March '18.
Our next-door neighbor, who I was close with, went full Looney Tunes (loco/crazy/rjkarl) in the summer of '18. In a nutshell, he became obsessed with dog poop.
He has (had) a very nice stand of zoysia that spanned his yard, our 10' easement, and about a third of my property.
He took GREAT offense to our dogs relieving themselves on my part of that grass, even though we kept them on my property. It's entirely possible a turd or 2 landed on the easement, but never close to his side of it.
They were always on a leash, and I even installed a handy rake/bucket on the backside of my small privacy fence, just for him to have access to incase of an 'emergency'.
Anyhoo, I came home one day in mid-2018 to find the motherfucker with a shovel digging massive holes, 15 feet away from the actual property-line, smack dab in the middle of my turf.
I knew he was constantly worried about where our dogs shat, but until that point... I hadn't really seen the animosity coming. He claimed he was looking for a property stake that he 'knew' was there. He, of course, never found it.
I truly didn't care where the property line was, until the shovel came out. It's real easy to pull up the Forsyth Deeds page and see how wrong he was.
In his infinite wisdom, he apparently just decided 'fuck it, burn it to the ground'... so, he killed everything and made a barren poorly-mulched area out of our shared easement and several feet of my property.
My thought was, 'well. whatever makes him less batshit.'
The problem is that his house went on the market today, and I've been advised that if the new buyer has reason to believe that land is theirs, it would put me in a much more tenuous spot attempting to reclaim it sometime down the road.
With where he's effectively divided the properties, I've lost the land I would need for a fence. I do not want that to be permanent.
As I was typing this, I got a call back from the listing-agent, who seemed genuinely helpful & concerned. I basically just told him I'm new to the home-owning process and wanted to make sure the eventual buyers were informed.
Have I done the right thing by calling his agent? Should I be expecting them (neighbor or new buyer) to pay for the survey? Does anybody else have experience in dealing with an easement like this? It seems to be the only one in our entire HOA.
Ours is the Grey house. According to the Forsyth Deeds site, the bricks you can see on his driveway are actually over the easement... so, uh, I've let him commandeer quite a bit.
I'll try to spare you the dirty deets, but my wife and I purchased a house we'd already been living in for a few years around March '18.
Our next-door neighbor, who I was close with, went full Looney Tunes (loco/crazy/rjkarl) in the summer of '18. In a nutshell, he became obsessed with dog poop.
He has (had) a very nice stand of zoysia that spanned his yard, our 10' easement, and about a third of my property.
He took GREAT offense to our dogs relieving themselves on my part of that grass, even though we kept them on my property. It's entirely possible a turd or 2 landed on the easement, but never close to his side of it.
They were always on a leash, and I even installed a handy rake/bucket on the backside of my small privacy fence, just for him to have access to incase of an 'emergency'.
Anyhoo, I came home one day in mid-2018 to find the motherfucker with a shovel digging massive holes, 15 feet away from the actual property-line, smack dab in the middle of my turf.
I knew he was constantly worried about where our dogs shat, but until that point... I hadn't really seen the animosity coming. He claimed he was looking for a property stake that he 'knew' was there. He, of course, never found it.
I truly didn't care where the property line was, until the shovel came out. It's real easy to pull up the Forsyth Deeds page and see how wrong he was.
In his infinite wisdom, he apparently just decided 'fuck it, burn it to the ground'... so, he killed everything and made a barren poorly-mulched area out of our shared easement and several feet of my property.
My thought was, 'well. whatever makes him less batshit.'
The problem is that his house went on the market today, and I've been advised that if the new buyer has reason to believe that land is theirs, it would put me in a much more tenuous spot attempting to reclaim it sometime down the road.
With where he's effectively divided the properties, I've lost the land I would need for a fence. I do not want that to be permanent.
As I was typing this, I got a call back from the listing-agent, who seemed genuinely helpful & concerned. I basically just told him I'm new to the home-owning process and wanted to make sure the eventual buyers were informed.
Have I done the right thing by calling his agent? Should I be expecting them (neighbor or new buyer) to pay for the survey? Does anybody else have experience in dealing with an easement like this? It seems to be the only one in our entire HOA.
Ours is the Grey house. According to the Forsyth Deeds site, the bricks you can see on his driveway are actually over the easement... so, uh, I've let him commandeer quite a bit.
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