So I’ve not too long ago change into conscious that my instant neighbor constructed his rowhouse “pop-back” extension two inches over our property line, lengthwise (see pictures – his home is the purple brick one on the suitable, mine’s the white one on the left).
I purchased my home (first time house purchaser) 4 years in the past, bought, newly transformed, and flipped by the vendor earlier that very same 12 months. My neighbor has been transforming his home for five+ years, probably means longer. He’s by no means really lived there (the home has been uninhabited this entire time). He constructed the pop-back extension someday earlier than I purchased my home, most certainly earlier than my vendor purchased the home.
Level is that this encroachment was beforehand unknown to me, and probably to my vendor, and probably even to my neighbor till this week. It was not disclosed to me in the course of the sale 4 years in the past, and I solely discovered as a result of I talked to some surveyors from the town who’ve been snooping round again there intermittently this month, and I did handle to talk with my neighbor who acknowledged the issue yesterday – although he performed dumb about it.
So, query is, what do I do? Is my neighbor in bother? Is he (or the town) required to inform me formally? Knock down the encroaching extension? Settle with me financially? Will we go to courtroom? Did I get duped by my vendor 4 years again? Until that is resolved does this have an effect on my property worth and make promoting my property harder sooner or later?
Thanks!