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File suit, request an injunction you'll be Plaintiff. If he gets a sleaze bag lawyer, you'll have to go to Court. It's the Plaintiff's responsibility to produce the evidence. Depending on the laws In your jurisdiction, you may or may not recover your legal fees. Estimate of cost , around $100,000 if you win. Check with your Title Company. They may cover your costs. Four or five years from now, you may get resolution from the Judicial system. It'll be a little cheaper if you can get him to sue you . Then you'll be the Defendant. Lawsuits are a crapshoot. 50% chance to win or lose. Main goal is not to get shot or shoot someone. My guess is you'd win.

Evaluate if the property is worth the cost or ensuing stress. A helicopter may be the way to go.

People do not read and understand deeds well at all.?ÿ Sometimes that is because the key element was created more years ago than the title company normally researches.

Today's time in the courthouse provided two opportunities for trouble on a single lot on the main street of the city.?ÿ The deeds fail to mention two party wall agreements.?ÿ One from 1945 and one from 1920 that had everyone in harmony on those dates.?ÿ Way back in 1920 a brick building was built with the west wall (13" wide) built centered on the west lot line and current and future uses were properly addressed, including the owner on the west contributing to paying for the wall.?ÿ In 1945, the owner to the east determined the east wall was straddling the east lot line and was willing to pay to make an agreement that he could connect to that party wall for his new building.?ÿ Nowhere in any of the deeds is there a mention of those agreements.

I was called to find the property lines as the owner of this key lot wanted the adjoiner to the west to not pave his parking lot up against what turned out to be a party wall.?ÿ The expansion and contraction of the asphalt pavement has buckled and shattered the stucco finish of the wall, causing cracks to run up the side, creating more problems.?ÿ Cutting back the existing asphalt, say two inches, would stop the current problem.?ÿ The client had absolutely no idea that these party wall agreements existed, despite having title insurance.

@holy-cow I had a similar situation with my property.?ÿ 20+ years ago my 90 year old clay sewer line gave up the ghost.?ÿ Instead of running to the sewer line in the adjacent street, it ran through my neighbors property to a sewer main running down a cross street.?ÿ My title report showed no easement for the line.?ÿ For that reason, as well as the fact that the line ran under the neighbors patio between their house and garage, I ended up rerouting the new line across the street into the adjacent line.?ÿ While doing a boundary line adjustment for a couple of properties in my block I came across the 1920's deed that split my neighbor's property from mine and retained an easement for the sewer line.

@skeeter1996 I would say that unless all the affected parties were no stupid enough not to get title insurance, which does happen, it is the insurer that will be paying the legal fees.?ÿ It is the insurer's duty to make the policy holders whole in this situation.

So, at no point did any of these clowns-- 4 different landowners, decide to call a surveyor? ???? Not a lot of sympathy from me.

The guy suggesting his cows were gonna die while standing on a field full of grass was pretty amusing as well.

This appears to be near Winauma, FL, which is northeast of Bradenton on the way to Tampa, more or less.?ÿ While searching I discovered that land use policies in the area have brought land developers to a temporary halt.?ÿ The demands are that they find some number of new jobs per number of new homes before the developments will be approved.?ÿ I would bet the disagreeable neighbor is a new housing developer.