Texas Easment?

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

I recently bought a 1/2 acre plot and it looks as if the neighbor has been using it to access his back yard on an adjacent plot where he parks some construction trucks. Previous owner lives in another state and was never aware anyone was driving on the plot. There are no previous agreements verbal [...]

do we have to give right-of-way?

Monday, January 31st, 2011

we are trying to sell a home we have owned for 60 years. Several different people have owned the house next door with no legal right of way across our land to theirs. We have never stopped them from usung our driveway, though. Now we are selling, even signed the papers- when the current [...]

Landowner behind us putting in cattle pasture, trees being cut down, can I protect trees on property line?

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

The owner of the land behind us also owns an inn and has decided to create a cattle pasture there. He is zoned for it; according to our township (Weisenberg twnshp in PA) he has the right to cattle pasturing, lumbering, and can build a fence right up to the property line. There are some [...]

What are the legal actions we should do for this case?

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Good Day!. I just need a legal advice about this issue. My parents rented a piece of land since they got married. We rented a lot up to now because the owner doesn’t want to sell the land. my family waited until they will sell it and we will buy it. My family saved money, [...]

Laws on property maintained by one homeowner and then purchased by adjacent homeowner – I maintained 11 years:

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

I purchased home 11 years ago, and was told that I owned additional 50 feet on property. I spent a year and 0. to clear land. I have maintained the land for 11 years. Three years ago a man moved in and bought huge tract of land, whick apparently included the 50 [...]

Blocking a established drain . . . can you do it?

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

This is a good one, and one that not many people can answer. There’s not even a mention to this question in my state’s property legislation.
My neighborhood has a little problem that occurs maybe 4 to 5 times a year. The area, especially that of myself and my neighbors on [...]

serving people with a no trespass order?

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

I lease a large farm and need a no trespass order served on a neighbor who is suspected of harming my horses, the land owner who I lease from retains rights to a 10 acre parcel that abuts my leased horse pastures and allows the creeps on there as they claim they are innocent, until [...]

Texas Squatter?

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

I recently purchased a small piece/plot of land in a fairly developed neighborhood that has no restrictions. The neighbor has work trucks in their back yard and uses the land I purchased as a driveway to get to his back yard. Should I be worried that they have legal rights to use the land since [...]

lawyers in michigan regarding property owners and oil/gas drilling?

Monday, October 18th, 2010

my property is next door to an active oil/gas drilling job. The noise and inconvenience is unbelievable. I do not have mineral rights, but want to be compensated for my hardships that have been going for 3 weeks and they say another 6-7 weeks. What lawyer should I call? I have been on here all [...]

Squatters rights in Illinois?

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Anyone know a website I can search about Squatters rights in Southern Illinois. I have owned my property for 9 years and my new neighbors have started mowing into my property. Now, out here in the country no one has had any of their land surveyed. So, if my neighbor has his land surveyed [...]

ENROACHMENT OR EASEMENT DISPUTE?

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

I bought a vacant land lot number 407 in LA city, CA from the public LA Tax collector auction tax sale for ,000 from april 2008.
The next lot 406 had a house which was built from 1906. both lot 406 and lot 407 belong to the same owner from 1940 to 1997. Then the onwer [...]

Is it still okay to use a q-tip with petroleum jelly to aid constipation in cats?

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I haven’t had cats in years and was wondering if it was still okay to do this procedure. A neighbor asked my to watch her cats while she is on vacation.

Real estate attorneys; a right of way question please?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

My wife recently purchased a property from a neighbor here in the Tayud area.
It has a decent right of way and there are over a dozen different homes on the right of way (none of the people are related to the right of way owner).
The man who claims to have bought all of the property [...]

New Homeowner – What if the previous homeowner said the neighbors could build on my land. verbal or written?

Friday, February 12th, 2010

You would think will all the billions of post on the internet someone would have my exact or similar situation somewhere. Maybe I just haven’t came across the right post.
I recently purchased my first house. We have been planning to build a fence in our backyard. I have found all four corners to my lot [...]

What to do about my neighbor and the property line.?

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

My neighbors are awful. They used to be my landlords, spent their $ on meth, & didn’t pay their contract for deed. Land owner repossessed our portion & sold it to us last Wed. Neighbors disputed the property line between us, so I paid for a surveyor. The surveyor put the pin 10′ into their [...]

What to do about my neighbor and the property line.?

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

My neighbors are awful. They used to be my landlords, spent their $ on meth, & didn’t pay their contract for deed. Land owner repossessed our portion & sold it to us last Wed. Neighbors disputed the property line between us, so I paid for a surveyor. The surveyor put the pin 10′ into their [...]

We purchased ten acres of land with one well , that was to be shared with two neighbors,?

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

We received a grant did giving us one third of the well rights,on March of 2007. In September 2007 the original owner of the property issued a second grant deed, giving my one third of the well to one of the other neighbor. What documents do I need to correct the second grant deed [...]

Does city have easement rights?

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

There is an Apartment Developer that is wanting to purchase property north of my property. There are several land owners between that proposed development and the highway. I am the last one on the road before the highway. One of the conditions that they may build if the road is widened to 24 feet. My [...]

Real estate attorneys; a right of way question please?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

My wife recently purchased a property from a neighbor here in the Tayud area.
It has a decent right of way and there are over a dozen different homes on the right of way (none of the people are related to the right of way owner).
The man who claims to have bought all of the property [...]

I have 8 acres of raw land. How can I make money off of it, beside simply selling it?

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

My grandmother has 8 acres of raw land (1.5 acres on frontage on one of the main streets in our city) that is paid for 100%. Her house is now on the land, but the zoning is going from residential to commercial, with strip malls, gas stations, apartment complexes and more. There are three lone [...]

Land dispute. Rights of Ingress/Egress owners. Who has the say on what can and can’t be done?

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

We own property in Alabama. The man behind us is telling us that we can’t dig a ditch to stop the flooding that the road he put in to his property has caused. He has to cross us and another neithbors prop. in order to get to his land. We can not land lock him, [...]

Can someone steal oil from a property that someone owns mineral rights on from tapping into it offof property?

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

My parents neighbor sold his mineral rights and now an oil co. is drilling to get the oil. A large chuck of oil is on my parents land and don’t want it mined because it would damage/distroy the new house that my father built by himself. My parents own mineral rights but if [...]