What is the name of your state? WA
I'll TRY to keep this short. Moved in 2 years ago, neighbor is not easy to deal with. They use our yard like its theirs and are nosey. We have small children, figured the best answer for us would be to put up a privacy fence. It was surveryed within the last 5 years, and by plotting out according to the survey posts still in place, it turns out the property line is INCHES from the corner of our neighbors house. We offered to sell him the property, at just below the fair market value we paid for it, and to put the fence up according to the new property line. That he would have to then pay to have it resurveyed as we could not afford this (and it was really not our problem). He said he was down on his luck and couldn't afford any of it, jerked us around for over a year and half only to then miraculously be able to start looking into adding onto his deck. He wanted a much larger portion of our land then we were willing to offer (we offered 5 feet from his house, and on a 1/4 acre lot that is a lot! It was ending up over 200 sq ft) We looked into local and county zoning laws, and they say that regardless of how close it is to his house as long as it doesn't block a fire exit (it doesn't) its our property to do as we please with. The line goes through the corner of his concrete steps, but we planned on putting it up on our side of them to be nice (and not push it). There is a firepit that he put on pur property before we moved in, just some bricks in a circle. Here are my question: does he have rights to the land because of the firepit and his mowing it, despite the fact we also mow it weekly? Is there anything to stop us from putting the fence (all other specs of the fence will be legal for our state and county- we are not city) up basically on the property line? Is there anything he can legally do to stop us from putting up the fence on our property once we start?
We try to be nice about this, but he immediately told him we HAD to sell him the land, and gave up on that only to insist that we weren't allowed to put a fence that close to his house. Immediately after saying this, he said he would look into getting money to buy it and would get back to us in a couple weeks. That was a year ago. He has tried to capitalize on our youth and inexperience before, to no avail, and probably thinks we believed him and gave the idea up. Should we even bother to tell him before we start erecting the fence?
I'll TRY to keep this short. Moved in 2 years ago, neighbor is not easy to deal with. They use our yard like its theirs and are nosey. We have small children, figured the best answer for us would be to put up a privacy fence. It was surveryed within the last 5 years, and by plotting out according to the survey posts still in place, it turns out the property line is INCHES from the corner of our neighbors house. We offered to sell him the property, at just below the fair market value we paid for it, and to put the fence up according to the new property line. That he would have to then pay to have it resurveyed as we could not afford this (and it was really not our problem). He said he was down on his luck and couldn't afford any of it, jerked us around for over a year and half only to then miraculously be able to start looking into adding onto his deck. He wanted a much larger portion of our land then we were willing to offer (we offered 5 feet from his house, and on a 1/4 acre lot that is a lot! It was ending up over 200 sq ft) We looked into local and county zoning laws, and they say that regardless of how close it is to his house as long as it doesn't block a fire exit (it doesn't) its our property to do as we please with. The line goes through the corner of his concrete steps, but we planned on putting it up on our side of them to be nice (and not push it). There is a firepit that he put on pur property before we moved in, just some bricks in a circle. Here are my question: does he have rights to the land because of the firepit and his mowing it, despite the fact we also mow it weekly? Is there anything to stop us from putting the fence (all other specs of the fence will be legal for our state and county- we are not city) up basically on the property line? Is there anything he can legally do to stop us from putting up the fence on our property once we start?
We try to be nice about this, but he immediately told him we HAD to sell him the land, and gave up on that only to insist that we weren't allowed to put a fence that close to his house. Immediately after saying this, he said he would look into getting money to buy it and would get back to us in a couple weeks. That was a year ago. He has tried to capitalize on our youth and inexperience before, to no avail, and probably thinks we believed him and gave the idea up. Should we even bother to tell him before we start erecting the fence?