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I desperately need to have some termiting done, and the tent would have to be dropped into their back yard to get full coverage of that side of my house. I have had nothing but problems with these people and anticipate having to sue for easement access to be able to have this done. How would you recommend I handle this?
Last year our neighbor asked us when we were going to move our septic system. He said that he would never be able to sell his property with our septic on it. Would an easement be a good solution to this problem? Or should we move it? One more note, our neighbor poured concrete and put a carport right on the property line after finding out what the surveys had shown. Shouldn’t it be at least 3 foot away from us?
recently i started to bull doze a road through this property at one point i encountered a wet spewage area that keep my road wet since i could not have this wet place in my drive i hired a backhoe to come and dig down and insert a pipe under the ground to try a channel the water away to the road ditch. when they dug down they encountered a 1 inch water pipe that was broke— the pipe was cut and capped–i then contacted the water district and surrounding homes to see if this line went to any of them—-no one claimed this water line— 2–months later a plumbing man contacted me—to ask a question about the water line—–seems that a house that had been for sale for a year bordering my property needed its water turned on—when they did — they had no water– i contacted the owner and he agreed to trench in another line if i would let him. i said ok—now 3 weeks later i get a summons that i am being sued in small claims court for not fixing his water line- what can i do?
I have a private lane in the bottom land of my property, (grass/ gravel) and it is listed as Private in the local county courthouse (Garrard Co., KY.) It is also Private with the State Transportation Cabinet. I have lived here for 20 years and recently placed a gate on the lane, because a 4-wheeler almost hit one of my kids. A farmer, who has no easement or right of way, and is NOT landlocked, decided he didn’t want the gate there because he wants to get to his back hillside that way, (even though in 20 years I have never actually seen him drive down my lane to get to his hill.) They came and cut my gate down with a blowtorch. Do you think this could be a case for the ACLU?
There are 2 condo’s in the building, only. I own the upstairs condo. I need to construct an egress stair from my upstairs unit to provide it with a second means of egress as required by the State Building Code. The downstairs unit owners said they will not allow the rights to the use of the rear yard for the proposed egress stair, Can the owners override the State Building Code.
My question is that my wife’s uncle , who resides in Texas, gave only verbal permission to some residents who were landlocked, next to his property, to use his land to get to theirs. What if anything can we do to get rid of them short of selling them property or an easement?
Can I take my soon-to-be ex daughter-in-law to court for not paying back a loan for a truck?
30+ years ago, our grandfather bought 320+ acres of pasture ground. Soon after, he deeded 160 acres each to two of his children, one (tract 1) being our dad. 5 years ago, the other (tract 2) acreage was sold to our brother. Sad to say, relations are not good at all between the two brothers that each own a tract. The brother of tract #2 threatened to bulldoze over all the terraces on his side of the fence and dam up the water so that it could not drain down through on his side. Just last week, in anger over another issue, he followed through on his threat and bulldozed the terraces and diked up the dirt 3-4′ on his side of the fence so it would retain all the water on our side. We do not want to take a brother to court, but are at a loss as to what to do. Do we bend and just pay the expense and go on, till he gets all hot about another issue?
I have a problem, the neighbors do a german shepard keeps coming into my yard, about 8 times now within 2 weeks. He has weakened my fence so much it is beyond repair, the neighbor who owns the dog says he is not going to fix the fence because it is rotting and the wind blew a section down, needless to say open access to the do. Well today I came home at lunchtime and the dog came running up to my gate in my yard and started barking and looking mean, I wasn’t going to take a chance so I went to inform the neighbor again to which he did not answer the door or the phone so I called animal control, they took the dog away and left a note on his door. Well that only made matters worse, he decided to yell at me to say I was going to reimburse him the money it is going to cost to get his dog back since he was going to be neutured and he planned on breeding him also he wasn’t going to fix the fence he wants to go in halves with me to build a new one. There was nothing wrong with my fence before his dog started coming into my yard should I be involved in fixing the fence or should he have to fix it since it was his dog that cause all the damage?
My neighbor drilled a well by accident on my property. He now wants to enter the property to decommission the well. Is the well now mine and he can he trespass with equipment to do the work?