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Originally Posted by Pachine58
Hi, I am new homeowner in the historic side of villages. I bought a house that was built 4 years ago.
Yesterday the man who owned property next door came over to tell me my survey stakes were wrong and he owned the land. He informed me he pulled them out and removed my flags for my dog fence. Went on to tell me Lake county called him to say when house was built the villages made a mistake on property line and he owned the property..( WTH).
I looked up on county site for info and found nothing. I just paid for a survey 3 months ago which included maps.
What can I do? I’m ****ed he took my stakes and destroyed my flags. Help!
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IMO, the first thing to do is to decide if you want to even try to have a cordial and amicable relationship with your next door neighbor who did this. If you do, then have a conversation with him about his concern, and your concern, and see if this is even an achievable goal. He may just be a combative SOB, and nothing you can do will make him a pleasant neighbor. In which case you are screwed in that regard, but not necessarily screwed in regard to where the property line goes.
If he wants to try to have a nice relationship with his neighbor, which I think is doubtful since he pulled the stakes without a conversation, I'm sure the two of you can find a way to verify the true boundary line.
If, he is, as we suspect, just a jerk, you'll have to verify the line yourself, replant the stakes, and tell him if he touches them again you'll call the cops on him and charge him with all of the appropriate charges.
He sounds like a crackpot to me. "The Villages called me and told me they made a mistake on the survey"....oh yeah...I'm sure they did. Happens all the time.