Habtom
msg:3523953 | 6:17 am on Dec 10, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Is it time to hold a party on my neigbhours land, for the next, let's say 20 years? I wonder if I can get anything.
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timster
msg:3524073 | 12:39 pm on Dec 10, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| a retired judge and his lawyer wife |
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It's good to know the law. This happened to some friends of my parents a few years ago. And it wasn't a vacant lot -- it was their side yard. Neighbors claimed to have tended the "garden" between their houses, which was really just a strip of trees and natural vegetation. All word-of-mouth evidence, and the judge awarded the neighbors a sizable swath of the yard. They did win it back on appeal however.
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wyweb
msg:3524127 | 2:38 pm on Dec 10, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I guess they should now also be liable for one third of the property taxes they hadn't been paying.
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walkman
msg:3524187 | 3:49 pm on Dec 10, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I wonder if they could file trespassing charges for when the property wasn't theirs--legally?
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Dabrowski
msg:3524388 | 7:39 pm on Dec 10, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Hmmm, due to my parking arrangements being a little tight, sometimes my rear wheel is a couple of inches on my neighbours drive. Since they never complained maybe I could claim that it was actually my overspill parking area?
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tbear
msg:3524409 | 8:06 pm on Dec 10, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Bit like copyright laws. If you don't actively persue your rights, you may lose them.
I guess that is also similar to opting out of something as opposed to opting in.
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simey
msg:3524673 | 1:19 am on Dec 11, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I wonder if instead of letting their neighbor use the land for free, they had charged them a .01/year users fee? Would a renter be able to take a landlords land in Boulder CO?
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walkman
msg:3524773 | 4:49 am on Dec 11, 2007 (gmt 0) |
>> I wonder if instead of letting their neighbor use the land for free, they had charged them a .01/year users fee? I think even i they had given him permission it would have been fine. Those (you know what) essentially claimed that the land was essentially forgotten /not tended to.
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lawman
msg:3524802 | 5:47 am on Dec 11, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Ha, hadn't heard the term "adverse possession" since my first year property class in law school.
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Habtom
msg:3524835 | 6:53 am on Dec 11, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| hadn't heard the term "adverse possession" since my first year property class in law school. |
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That must have been a hot issue back then, if I didn't miss it by a few years, that is when the retired judge and his lawyer wife began trespassing on that vacant lot next door to their home. :)
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walkman
msg:3524984 | 1:43 pm on Dec 11, 2007 (gmt 0) |
lawman,
can they file trespassing charges? They are under oath saying they did so. Does one have to have an no-trespassing sign? Also, a problem might be if the land became technically "theirs" by virtue of using it x years ago and the statue of limitations has passed.
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Essex_boy
msg:3525348 | 8:34 pm on Dec 11, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I see this sort thing on a regular basis at work, lucky for us that the claimant has SO FAR got it wrong.
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