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The easement in question was recorded in 1983. This is all news to us. We never were asked or notified. We bought property in 1977 and title search at that time showed no easements.
I have a drainage easement (swale)running the back 20 feet of my property. Because of the overwhelming water we have been recieving, the swale is causing the water to pond, and as a result, my backyard is collapsing rapidly, and my basement is flooding during heavy rain.
I am trying to determined how much to charge for easements that one of my neighbors wants across our property. This is for the purpose of developing his property and he is requesting three separate easements across our property.
We share a reciprocal driveway easement with our neighbors, they park on our property and we drive across theirs. The easement documentation provides that we share in the costs of paving the easement. Some of our trees hanging over the area where they park have old, thick branches that could fall and damage their cars. Who is responsible for trimming the trees and keeping them safe?
We have painted our remodeled home on three sides and our neighbor is denying us access to use the area beyond the 12 inches (which is on his property) to paint the wall.
My neighbor has recently erected a barrier preventing us from driving across that portion of her driveway. It’s almost impossible to drive in 1 of 2 cars into the 2 car garage with this barrier.
We were recently sent a letter from the local sewer authority requesting that we sign the attached right-of-way agreement and grant of right-of-way for an existing sewer line on our property for the sum of .00. Should we do it?
After this new owner had his land surveyed he realized that I, and my neighbor, drove across a ~ 250 sq. ft piece of land in the nethermost corner of his 93 acre holding. This small piece of his adjoining property has been used continuously as a driveway entrance to our properties since their development 40 years ago.
We have a 10 foot easement on the back end of our land as likewise do the owners of the field in the back. They would have to cut down 2 30 (foot) trees that are in our yard to do this. They told me at a meeting that if I did not give them the right of this easement through my property that they would condem that part of my yard and use it anyway.
Our sewer line goes across our neighbor’s property. It was that way when each of us bought our properties. Now I need to replace the sewer line, and we can’t find any recorded easement. If our neighbor tries to keep us from replacing our sewer line, will we be able to prevail based on a prescriptive easement?