Originally Posted by bullmack

I can relate to this. I've been working for 4 years on historical ownership of several lakeshore properties non Vermont. Ownership traces back to the late 1700's. Many properties do not have bearings - just a direction and distances - in chains, rods, and links. Often the corner reference is a tree that is typically long gone or a rock. Then there's the fact that everything was handwritten and used phraseology that eventually died away.

Originally Posted by Bald1

I came home from work one day and there was orange ribbon across the entrance to my driveway. It’s 170 feet long with a 2 car wide turnaround. Someone sealed my blacktop driveway. I know it’s a $500-$600 job because I’ve gotten estimates before doing it myself in the past. There’s a little sign in grass with company name. I call and tell them what they did. The woman initially said I owe them money. I said actually you owe me money for trespassing and property damage because your crew did a horrible job….. they actually did a nice job and I had no intention of paying. I just wanted to mess with the woman because she was being stupid about things. Eventually my neighbor 2 doors down comes over to say they did your driveway instead of mine. I got you a free seal job Then stood there looking stupid like I owed him money or something.

Originally Posted by Rpg

Years ago I represented some homeowners in a small development on the edge of the Arapaho national forest. The homeowners were in a dispute over the proper allocation of the annual fees to the HOA or adjacent lots.

I always look at the original subdivision filing. This one was a beauty: the thing was layed out with the most intricate meets and bounds description I’ve ever seen. Using the meets and bounds description, I determined that it was incomplete: it didn’t describe a complete block.

Image a property description of a rectangle but missing the fourth side. Its insufficient to convey property.

End result: everyone was mad at me because we needed to file a quiet title action and resurvey the subdivision. Some lots turned out to be smaller or in a slightly different location than the property owners thought. There were some disputes about garages on property lines.

We ultimately got it sorted. I got a fee, of course.

Originally Posted by steelslaver

I have a 4 acre lot in Alaska that I haven't seen for 25 years. I wish someone wold build a nice cabin on it

Originally Posted by djohns6

That's pretty bad . My wife had surgery on her ankle and when she went in that morning everybody that was involved in the prep verified which ankle with her and the surgeon even marked her ankle with a Sharpie .

Originally Posted by Bekeart

Locally the Highway Department claims easement "30 feet from highway center line".
( It is for a rural road in the county.)

Deceased surveyor wrote a plat citing "60 feet from highway center line."
(I believe the plat along the same highway, was for a sub division.)

A friend recently bought one of the platted lots with the 60 foot citation.

Bekeart

Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

Kinda like asking directions out in the country and you get something like this" "Take the road a bit, turn left at Johnson's tractor shed go down to where the old movie theatre used to be before it burned down in '47 take a left and it is right next to Ms. Bessie's house"

Originally Posted by SMSgt

Years ago in the AF, we had to write specific directions for someone to follow to find us while on leave. Your "instructions" sound very much like what a KY country boy who worked for me wrote down. How does one know where "the old oak tree used to be" is?