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This is jsut my experience from the other side of the fence- I'm am not saying that your situation is at all like this.
The first thing to do is get a plot map to check things out if you don't have it yet. Then find and mark your boundaries.
My neighbor last year first accused me of plotting to create an easement over about 50 ft of his property by using the access gate I have. I told that there was an existing easement there. The next thing was that they piled brush in the middle of the lane effectively closing access.
I then wrote a letter, sending a copy of the plot map showing the easement. I asked him very politely to move the brush. Said if he had any problems call me. And told him that we could go to an attorney to work things out if he disagreed.
Next I got a letter from their attorney declaring they didn't want me to use their property and that the previous easement was abondoned. In our state and easement is not considered abandoned until paper declaring that have been filed with the county and 30 years have passed without protest, neither of these having been done. So the sicced their attorney on me with bogus claims.
Then my neighbor called to me as I was passing the next day- ranted about a number of silly things then basically told me he was removing the brush in the next couple of days, that he never intended to block the access- he "thought I would be happy with his clearing brush" and that I didn't have to ask his permission for using this easement any more. No sorry for screaming at me and making my life difficult without having done any research about the issue at all- just repeated that the real estate salesperson had said there was no easment. And blamed me for creating the problem by sending him a certified letter and upsetting him- the poor 6"2", 200 lb man.
So I now am using the the short lane as I was previously but I can't shed the bad feeling his ranting left with me- we are no longer friends- we are civil but I distrust them now.
The point I'm making is that deeded access is not neccessarily exclusive- because I have the right to cross his land on the road doesn't mean that he can't use it too- at least up to my own property line.
Now the way to have kept all this from happening would have been for him to look at the map, determine where the lines are and what they meant, talk to me about any differences between our interpretations and resolved any unclear things with a third party.
Because bad feeling amoung neighbors are not always repaired.
The first thing to do is get a plot map to check things out if you don't have it yet. Then find and mark your boundaries.
My neighbor last year first accused me of plotting to create an easement over about 50 ft of his property by using the access gate I have. I told that there was an existing easement there. The next thing was that they piled brush in the middle of the lane effectively closing access.
I then wrote a letter, sending a copy of the plot map showing the easement. I asked him very politely to move the brush. Said if he had any problems call me. And told him that we could go to an attorney to work things out if he disagreed.
Next I got a letter from their attorney declaring they didn't want me to use their property and that the previous easement was abondoned. In our state and easement is not considered abandoned until paper declaring that have been filed with the county and 30 years have passed without protest, neither of these having been done. So the sicced their attorney on me with bogus claims.
Then my neighbor called to me as I was passing the next day- ranted about a number of silly things then basically told me he was removing the brush in the next couple of days, that he never intended to block the access- he "thought I would be happy with his clearing brush" and that I didn't have to ask his permission for using this easement any more. No sorry for screaming at me and making my life difficult without having done any research about the issue at all- just repeated that the real estate salesperson had said there was no easment. And blamed me for creating the problem by sending him a certified letter and upsetting him- the poor 6"2", 200 lb man.
So I now am using the the short lane as I was previously but I can't shed the bad feeling his ranting left with me- we are no longer friends- we are civil but I distrust them now.
The point I'm making is that deeded access is not neccessarily exclusive- because I have the right to cross his land on the road doesn't mean that he can't use it too- at least up to my own property line.
Now the way to have kept all this from happening would have been for him to look at the map, determine where the lines are and what they meant, talk to me about any differences between our interpretations and resolved any unclear things with a third party.
Because bad feeling amoung neighbors are not always repaired.
:/
