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All-TigerNet [11963]
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Oh how I miss living on a corner lot and only having
May 23, 2019, 9:23 AM
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one neighbor to deal with.
moved in about 8 months ago. yard was a wreck. planned immediately to have it professionally redone, so we got a survey early on. discussed the border with the neighbor. because he frequently cut all the way over to our driveway (because prior tenants DNGAF about landscaping). Agreed that the projected line was about 1 pass of the lawnmower beside our driveway (so ~22-24"). we did NOT pull a string because we didn't think it was necessary. Geez were we wrong.
got plans for the work. showed them to the neighbor. He said ok. so we had a lot of work done. regarded and sodded the entire yard, installed a huge retaining wall in the backyard and added a berm (and intended tree line) between the properties to keep his rain runoff from flooding our driveway and direct it into the swale that we made. The entire time we had the boundary marked (found the rebar, pulled the string, spray painted the line...repeatedly checked it). The berm stops with about 2-3" to spare within property line.
dude was out of the country for the entire 3-4 week project. So he comes home just in time to see the finished product. He stops me in the driveway the next morning and tells me that we crossed the prop line. I explained to him that we marked the line and kept it marked the entire time to ensure that we avoided just that. my wife and I grab a string, pull it from roughly where we knew the pin to be. he said we were wrong. I grabbed a copy of the survey. grabbed a scale and a tape measure. measured off the driveway ref. he said the survey was wrong. landscaper comes out, digs up the rebar, ties off the string. neighbor says we paid the surveyor; therefore, the lines were drawn in our favor. so he is getting another survey done.
It was like and in person P&R Board discussion. ###?
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Re: Oh how I miss living on a corner lot and only having
May 23, 2019, 9:27 AM
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Any chance the new survey agrees with you again?
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Heisman Winner [105518]
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It should. They are not paid to add land for other people,
May 23, 2019, 9:49 AM
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they are paid to perform a professional survey.
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Oculus Spirit [81019]
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As long as he's paying for the new survey***
May 23, 2019, 9:28 AM
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All-TigerNet [11963]
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the irony is that the 3 house bordering him were all sold, d
May 23, 2019, 9:59 AM
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and had surveys done in the last 8-9 months. so the markers are all there. He technically has a free survey. I think he is feeling encroached upon because the folks on the other side of him appear to be building a fence. so that, plus our new trees will really show how small his backyard is.
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Oculus Spirit [93647]
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You can't use your neighbor's pins to mark your property.
May 23, 2019, 10:10 AM
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If you live on a corner and everyone else on your block uses the other corner to survey (this happens all the time) from you always end up short with less than your deed shows. Your surveyor should have laid out your property lines using all roads defining your block. There's always minor differences and since you were last to lay out lines you got shafted. You can not use your neighbors' pins to show your property lines. Oh, they'll let you, that's not the problem, the problem is they often use their neighbors' pins if they can gain from it.
That's why I said close enough isn't close enough. Being close is what created this mess. I wasn't trying to be offensive. I had two years of surveying at Clemson. One was required and the other elective because I owned property at the time.
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All-TigerNet [11963]
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???
May 23, 2019, 10:15 AM
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not sure what you are referring to...our surveyor did lay out the lines.
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CU Medallion [54758]
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happens when the subject line is all puncuation
May 23, 2019, 5:11 PM
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it doesn't show up in the URL prior to the poast number.
if you add "???_" before the post # at the end, it'll show up
wonder why...
B-Meist®
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All-TigerNet [11963]
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also, question for you
May 23, 2019, 10:33 AM
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YOu said, " Your surveyor should have laid out your property lines using all roads defining your block. There's always minor differences and since you were last to lay out lines you got shafted."
what's "minor"?
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May 23, 2019, 10:34 AM
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Burn his house down....
May 23, 2019, 9:30 AM
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Re: Burn his house down....
May 23, 2019, 12:59 PM
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That was my first thought also.
Then he will have something to really worry about.
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Oculus Spirit [79420]
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Murray cypress trees will be your friend
May 23, 2019, 9:31 AM
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There's a guy on Williams Street (Basically a continuation of Refuge Rd.) who sells them for very reasonable.
I'd just ask if he'd prefer you didn't do #### with the yard like the last owner. I probably couldn't help aggravating him, by requesting he do another survey, then another, then another without any real regard to where the property line is. He'd also get every leaf and blade of grass blown into his yard/driveway for the duration of my stay there.
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Oculus Spirit [97697]
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#redneckneighbor ftw
May 23, 2019, 9:31 AM
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Something about rednecks and property lines.
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Oculus Spirit [75711]
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Dang, I am on a corner and still
May 23, 2019, 9:35 AM
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have two to deal with. Luckily they aren't bad so far and one neighbor's son installed the AC unit for the house last year.
I do wonder just who owns the fence that goes around. I also wonder how much trouble the big oak tree is going to cause me. Trunk is fully on my side, top is 1/3ish in theirs.
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That's your tree
May 23, 2019, 12:25 PM
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I have a similar tree at a rental house. The way I understand it my insurance isn't responsible for any damage from it unless the neighbor writes a letter to me expressing concern.
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Oculus Spirit [75711]
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This also means they can't go trimming their side without
May 23, 2019, 12:38 PM
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my approval, correct?
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Not sure on that***
May 23, 2019, 1:04 PM
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an extra 2-3" for that dood is obviously needed***
May 23, 2019, 9:39 AM
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Oculus Spirit [93647]
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Roughly where you though the pin to be isn't good enough.***
May 23, 2019, 9:40 AM
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Did you stop reading at that point?
May 23, 2019, 11:01 AM
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If so, here is what you missed:
"I grabbed a copy of the survey. grabbed a scale and a tape measure. measured off the driveway ref. he said the survey was wrong. landscaper comes out, digs up the rebar, ties off the string."
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The pics look good though!
May 23, 2019, 9:44 AM
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This is exactly why I am not capable of living in a neighborhood. Hillbilly feudin' takes a lot of time, energy, and ammo.
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Murderous rage
May 23, 2019, 9:49 AM
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When he is proven wrong, he still will not believe it. It is a deep state LGBT Survey conspiracy and he will not stand for it.
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once you're proven right,
May 23, 2019, 10:05 AM
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ask him if he would mind mowing the 2-3" of your yard on his side of the berm. If not, just let it grow.
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Honestly, this is preventing us from addressing the real
May 23, 2019, 10:07 AM
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issue...which is his ####### bamboo that is intruding on our backyard.
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Good luck with that. It never goes away. TOTALLY invasive
May 23, 2019, 10:08 AM
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and only idiots plant that crap.
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we had some in our last house that we inherited from....
May 23, 2019, 10:33 AM
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previous owner. We had decent success keeping it contained by digging a trench around where we wanted it to stay and burying 2x10 (may have been 1x can't remember exactly) treated boards and sprayed them with some kind of spray to keep them from spreading. They filled up the boundary pretty quick, but stayed inside it. Ended up working out pretty well.
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When we purchased our house
May 23, 2019, 10:11 AM
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there was an established yard with established boundaries that we thought was part of the house. Come to find out the brother of the previous tenants (who still lives behind our house) had the property lines redone to not provide an easement for the house (this was back in the 70's when nobody GAF). This way he would be able to control the sell of the house.
Luckily he is a family friend of my wife's family and gladly gave us the the rest of the established yard plus sold us some of the woods to make a full acre
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Heisman Winner [135560]
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I'm sure it's a good feeling to know that now all of your
May 23, 2019, 10:36 AM
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home's tires are on YOUR property.
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I got Bubbles after him
May 23, 2019, 10:40 AM
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Be honest with us...
May 23, 2019, 10:15 AM
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How much did you have to pay the surveyor to add the extra to your lot???
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