I live in a brand new development where I have purchased/built a brand new home and lived in it since day 1. Boundary lines were drawn on the cement on the road for each house. It has since been 4 years since the development has been completed and we have lived here. […]

My husband and I bought our house five years ago. our yard is an acre and it has fencing all around it. there is a small piece of property with trees on it.a gentle man said he owns it and we have to move our fence because it’s on his property by three feet. this […]

I live in a community in Miami, Florida called “Valencia”. The HOA had sent me a notice in December 2007 to trim the areca palm in front of my townhouse. I had trimmed this and sent a letter stating same. The next letter I got was to remove the areca palm. Then I had to […]

I won’t wast too much of your time.I live in a small town in n.c. My father died in 1998, and I promised him on his death bed that I would take care of my mother.She has never had a driver license and always has had bad nerves.So not long after I moved back […]

I have recently purchased a condo unit in Grand Forks, ND. It is a brand new condo and the original bylaws said nothing about prohibiting pets or pet deposits. Since then, an association has been formed and an addendum added stating that no pets are allowed except for original owners who already own […]

Most of my neighbor’s vines are on my side of the fence, it has touched the ground, many small vines are popping all over my yard. The entire root system is in my neighbor’s property. I know I have the right to trim it back, however, since I will be in troble if somehow […]

I live In NC. I built a house 7.5 years ago ang had a verbal agrement with my couson that I could use a certian peice of property as my driveway even though it was his property. 3 weeks ago the property changed hands and the new owners say they are putting up a fence […]

I use an easement road to access my home. It is 3/4 of a mile long and currently gravel. A few of the residents would like to pave it. I do not want to pave it nor can I afford to pave it. If they do it anyway will I be forced to pay […]

Our neighbor’s driveway borders our back yard. Our neighbor has a fence, and we have a row of bushes planted in our yard along the fence line on our property. The bushes were there when we moved in four years ago. Last year, we planted raspberries there as well.
A few days ago, […]

A large tree on the property line between us and our neighbor is dead. The base of the trunk just barely crosses the line onto our property. How much, if any, of the tree is “ours.”
Fort Wayne, Indiana

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I live in Wisconsin. My neighbor has a silver maple growing 6-feet from my foundation. I had a landscape design done and the horticulturalist said in a letter:
“Alert your neighbor to the problems the tree will certainly present. They are notorious for invading sewer lines and causing foundation issues if too […]

So my boyfriend’s neighbor decided to put up a fence today…. fine whatever. So he puts this fence on the property line, but instead of going all the way back on the property line (40ft.) the neighbor had Fox Fence stop 10ft before the back of the house, and enclose the fence right smack dab […]

We own a home in NY that we purchased 11 years ago. The fence on one side is over the property line by about 2 feet and extends the length of our property. Our neighbor is the son of the the man who sold us the house. His mother (the x wife of […]

I bought my house back in 06 from my mother. When i purchased it i noticed the neighbor Tree’s and fence were on my property. Is it true that they can take my property because their fence is over the property line?

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my in-laws have had a camp on a small lake in upstate ny for 110 years. now as of last year dec is trying to kick them out and tear down there camp. is there a grandfather clause that can stop them. they do pay school tax on the property but not […]

My grandfathers driveway goes over the neighbors property line to get to the street, the city fixed it this way. It has been fine for over 40-50 years and now the owner of the house has passed away and her son, who now owns the property and has lived there for the past 30 […]

In Louisiana an HOA hire their own attorney to defend/stop construction of a project adjacent to a subdivision that is causing problems to homes located with in the subdivision? Do have any legal regulations?

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A change in the local zoning code is being enforced that will put us in violation. The offending item has been in the same location since years prior to the change. Shouldn’t this be grandfathered? They did give us notice and time to bring the property up to the new code, but […]

When I bought my house 5 years ago (an old house) it came with a driveway and garage. The driveway went 2 inches onto the neighbor’s side property. This driveway has been here forever. Anyway, without my permission, my neighbor removed the two inches (more like 3 even) and cut off my driveway while I […]

I have a situation in NJ where there is a large landscaping business in my town and this business has a small area on my residential street that dump trucks are constantly coming in and out during the day to get dirt…etc.
The reason it is still there is because they were grand fathered in and […]