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Does this land situation make any sense to you?

I posted a while back about a land situation that we were involved in. Our lot size on our property has been the same since it was first surveyed in 1875. A portion of the property was taken by the railroad for a right-of-way. After many years of searching we had the property deeded back to us by descendants of the railroad. We had the property surveyed back to his original survey size, had the code enforcement officer for our area check this over, had the tax office confirm we owned the property, had a title search done to confirm we owned the property and after all this we put up a fence on the property line. The neighbors, however, are beating their chests claiming they own the property even though their survey shows they do not and they have not had a title search done which shows they own it. However, we talked to our lawyer and he says that not only will the neighbors probably get 1/2 of the property in question, but we will also probably be liable for all kinds of damages which could amount to us loosing our home of 30 years. Can ANYONE make any sense out of the fact that we have title, survey, paid taxes on this property and we still don't own it!! We are still waiting for the case to come to court, which has me in constant panic attacks because of the judge throwing all kinds of charges and fines against us. We can't afford another lawyer as we have forked over a ton of money now that has cleaned us out of all our savings. I just don't know what to do to save our home.

Update:

More Info: Neighbor's claimed adverse possession 5 years ago in court and lost their case. Now say they own it by deed all though Title Search Co. searched our title to the property and verfied that it clearly belonged to us.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    NOT enough info.

    Maybe claim of adverse possession by neighbor?

    If so, get your title company involved as they insured you.

    Maybe you should get second legal opinion, though, for your peace of mind.

    Source(s): real estate attorney
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