Property line maintance any of you do it?

JOCCO · Nov 15, 2016

Blazing trees or stakes in the ground. Dealing with old and delapeted lines, angry neighbors etc. I sure believe well marked ones are a good thing. I have to do it on jobs as well as my own. I love the ones that have not been touched for 50-100 years "its out there somewhere" and yes I have seen many incidents where timber was cut over the line or a road, septic system etc was put over the line. So lets here your stories.

RESLLS · Nov 15, 2016

We bought 2.25 acres on a lake in MI. The next year our neighbor sold his house for 260k. New owner was trying to say lrperty line was 20 ft farther on my side than it is. Told no, 6 ft inside his sea wall. Around and around we went. Finally agreed to survey, each paying half. Let him pick survey company. 2 guys got done and were driving stake and marker in the beach when he came out of his house. Talk about someone being irate. Thought he was going to either croak or kill the surveyor. He is still furious, and denies survey results. Keeps trying to talk me out of 20ft. Has offerd a whole 2k for 20ft of beach 485ft long. I just keep saying no. He says it is not fair that we have 200' of waterfront and he only has 80! Second lick is about where porch will be. Brush and pine by waster have to go yet.

Jim in rush co · Nov 15, 2016

I had a 1/2 mile line on the East, no fence all wooded with hills and hollows. I had it surveyed and put steel post every 166 ft,then put white PVC pipe with cap over them. You can see the post easy in the trees and hollows.

Russ from MN · Nov 15, 2016

I have tried to restore some, we have miles of property line, most of it through woods. If there was a fence there I try to find the barbed wire with a pickaroon and then find a post, then decide which end was down! Then I put in a steel fence post every 200 yards that I painted red and a concrete cap on it. I make the caps by filling a milk carton full of concrete and put a pop can into it. After it's cured I jamb it down on top of the steel fence post. I can see that kind of marker pretty well, I am somewhat colorblind. I got that idea in AZ, there are markers out in the mountains like that, but they are white painted wood.

Pair-a-dice farm · Nov 15, 2016

It depends on which neighbor. My longest property line is 1 1/2 mile along the river. One neighbor and I share 1 1/4 mile of fence and we take turns spraying. A few years ago we sold the timber and used the money to doze out the stumps and put in new fence. That's the way it should work. On the north side I share a little over a mile with a guy that isn't all bad as long as I maintain and spray the fence so his cows don't mix with mine :roll: My other property line is along the highway and the state expects me to keep up the fence.

Dave H (MI) · Nov 15, 2016

I bought some vacant fields a few years back. Then last year I bought the house that originally belonged to the fields. Found out when they split the property the septic for the house was on my NE field. In the interim the first owner had trouble with the field and put in a new one. I would kind of like to know where the TANK is. Not real worried about a bunch of old clay tiles.

omahagreg · Nov 15, 2016

Years ago I worked as a carpenter for a plumber. They had the plumbing contract for a swimming pool company that summer. I was sent out to a house to help. The deck was ready and was getting poured that morning. All of a sudden the surveyors showed up-they had built a retaining wall 7 feet across the lot line! They poured half the pool deck that day...!

jm. · Nov 15, 2016

We have settled on 8 ft piece of rebar with a bright knob on top. Seems to last and be easy to spot. Most of ours in hill timber. The open fields are pretty easy..

K Effective · Nov 15, 2016

I managed to grab a half dozen concrete fence posts as a grape vineyard was being dozed out for a subdivision. I plan to use them on my portion next to the existing irons. I have moved all our fences in 12 feet from the actual line so I can mow easily. Yes, lost some pasture and fields, but it makes for better fences and a good place to store wagons, etc.

NEKS · Nov 15, 2016

Brother-in-law has owned this house for years and the neighbor come to him and wants to by about 12 feet of his back yard. It seems this guy has put a room addition on his house and built it out into the utility easement. Kind of hard to move a utility easement when there is utilities already there. Someone on the city planning board screw up not telling the guy what he could or couldn't do.

JMS/.MN · Nov 15, 2016

Find a water witcher...should be able to find the tank.

FBH44 · Nov 16, 2016

Oh don't say that, some day you might very swell be worried. Very worried as the liquids surface...

farmerwithmutt · Nov 16, 2016

Rented my farm to a neighbor and he tore most of the fence out when he couldn't keep up with the rent I got a new renter and want to put the fence back. When I had it surveyed found a major problem apparently it was assumed that 1420 feet was the length of a 40 but because there is adjustment for the curvature of the earth it's not. It cost me over 6 thousand in legal bills to get the fence in he was mad because I wouldn't rent for half price. Sad thing I probably lost more land then he did. I always cut brush back and maintain all boundary fences when field measurement is taken by air photos they go off the shadow line if the sun is shining the wrong way you can loose ground and government payments can be smaller . Besides it's cheaper to clip shrubs by hand than push trees with a bulldozer.

Fawteen · Nov 16, 2016

reslls, your predicament is precisely why I refuse to have my line surveyed. It has exactly zero force in law. If my ***hole neighbor disagrees with the results, he can just ignore it and there's nothing I can do about it. Of course, that works both ways fortunately.

I checked with a lawyer specializing in real estate law here in Maine and she said I could spend $50,000 to $100,000 in legal fees and gain nothing.

Not worth it for 10 feet of land I can't use anyway.

sms · Nov 16, 2016

I try to maintain our lines and keep the wire up as it lets people know where they shouldn't be. Neighbors aren't a problem but it is mostly woods and hunters and 4 wheelers just keep going if there is nothing to stop them. I say try because there is always trees and limbs falling on the fence.
Robert Frost,

Plant Doc · Nov 16, 2016

I have a small housing project bordering my property. My new neighbors seem to think what is theirs is theirs and what is mine is theirs. Boundary lines are meaningless because if I am not using it, it belongs to whoever whats to cut my timber. When I say anything I am the bad guy! They do not what my wife to walk our dog to close to their property even when they are walking their dog on my property. Even worse is their kids coming over and into my buildings and climbing on and around the machinery. It has gotten somewhat heated between me and the neighbors and they don't seem to care.

Ken Macfarlane · Nov 16, 2016

Across the border from you in NB we have a big chunk of the land surveyed with them registered in a database. It has slowly started fixing most of the line disputes. Every time a property is sold it has to be entered unless it's already in the system.

Was fun sorting it out the first time it goes in the new system, number of chains back from a bank of a river that was flooded into a headpond. Luckily there was remains of fences etc.

dhermesc · Nov 16, 2016

Sounds like its time to build a nice fence along the property line.

Russ from MN · Nov 16, 2016

Some of our properties have pipes driven in at the corners from the original survey, shortly after 1900. It's nice to have those as a starting point.

RamblinMan · Nov 16, 2016

My son bought some rural farm land on a whim, didn't really do anything but walk the property line with the seller. All the paperwork was in order for the sale to happen. The land next to his isn't farmed, but the county clerk website shows two owners who have split up the land between them which totally surrounds my son's small piece of land. Neither of the other two owners have bothered to do anything with their parcels, most likely because the land isn't good for much, just scrub land with no timber. I went out to look the place over with my son this summer as he was planning on cleaning up the place. It has been a dump site in the past and the place next to his has a foundation where a house was started but never finished. Just a big hole with concrete block walls falling over prompting the county to condemn the place. I advised my son not to get in a hurry to buy the other land. The property line is totally overgrown and there's only a bit of fence left here and there. The other property owners are in a bind and would sell out to my son but the price is not in line with what the land is worth. Basically rolling scrub land that drains the surrounding area with a history of fly dumping. Cleanup is going to take some money. He pulled the trigger too fast and has learned a good lesson.

wilson ind · Nov 16, 2016

what is fly dumping?

RamblinMan · Nov 17, 2016

Flying down the road throwing junk out of the truck.

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