What are the Drainage Requirements for Private Roads?
A company built a new road and all the lots next to the road flood constantly. Is that legal? Shouldn’t they have had to build some kind of drainage or something in the road to prevent this?
Category: Eminent Domain
Can I Sue The Oil Company For Causing My Furnace To Explode?
My oil furnace was given a 17 point tune-up by my oil company. When the tune-up was completed, I was given a receipt stating everything was good to go.
How Can The HOA Reduce The Size Of The Neighboring Church’s Basketball Court?
I am the President of a HOA that has 108 houses. Off of the rear of our property, on the other side of a 6 foot tall fence, is property owned by a church.
Can I Stop A Private Company From Installing High Voltage Cables Underneath My Property?
A private company wants to lay a high voltage line underneath the roadway outside my property in rural Ireland. I own half the rural road outside my property under Irish law.
Can I Lease My Property For A Fee to the Town?
My town wants to use an easement on my property for traffic due to repairs of a bridge that they will close for about 1 year. Can this be leased with a fee to the town?
What Are My Easement Parking Rights?
We moved into our house 9 years ago and have no driveway, and were told we can park in alley between my house and the neighbors’ as long as it was on our side and we did not block access. We have not blocked access but our neighbor has been out to get us since we moved in and now he wants us out of the alley.
What Rights Do I Have to Protect My Property?
The town I live in wants to abandon my road due to cost of repair because it is sliding into the river.
Can the Township Exercise Control Over Our Condo Parking Lot?
I live in a condo association. After reassessing our street for correct parking due to neighbors complaining that they could not exit their driveways, the township remarked off proper parking.
Is it Legal for Bourough to Move Road Onto Our Property?
We have had a septic system on our land for 10 years and owned the property for 20 years . The bourough wants to move the road into our property over our septic system. Is this legal? I thought the septic system has been there so many years it’s a permanent structure?
Is There Recourse Against Neighboring Builder-owned Lot Not Being Maintained?
Our Ohio home is next to a undeveloped builder-owned lot. The builder does a terrible job of maintaining the property. We cut our lawn frequently and have our lawn treated. The undeveloped lot is not cut regularly or treated. In order to protect our yard from issues associated with this untreated property (weeds, etc.), my husband has maintained about 20 feet of that property adjacent to our yard for the last nine years.