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About 4 years ago…
I did a survey and found the the title lines and possession lines were in conflict.
I contacted the adjoiner and talked to both him and my client. Both were a little suprised by my findings, but accepted the results (the monumentation worked real nice…..for once).I suggested various ways to handle this, from quit claim deeds, to easements, and a few other ways to handle it. Both said the would think about it and call back.
Well in the meantime the adjioner talks with his attorney and thats were things went down hill…I’m not sure of all the details, but there were indications of adverse possession claims, damage claims, things got real tense, from two neighbors who, originally, wanted to work things out (at least thats what they said, who knows for sure.) I think there was even a pre-trial date, but I’m not sure…
Anyway, I do various maps under my clients direction, depicting different scenarios, for him, he spends a lot of money with me and I can only imagine how much his attorney is costing him.
Well time goes by and I kinda forgot about the whole thing.
Today I get a phone call…they settled on one of my original suggestions (granting easements to one another for the encroachments)…So five years later, some serious coin, hard feelings, and we end up with the result a lowly surveyor suggested originally….
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