When doing research on your own and your neighbor’s property, start (and follow through) with some tools related to the properties tax parcel numbers by using King County Geographical Information System (“KCGIS”) Center’s Parcel Viewer 2.0. Once you have arrived at this screen, continue with the following steps;
Robert – Adverse possession to a property owner is legalized theft. The new law [RCW 7.28.083] should have struck it down completely. Adverse possession is archaic and with today’s ready access to surveys, there is no reason absolute boundaries cannot be confirmed and legal boundaries protected by the very authorities property owners fund with their
Kunkel v. Fisher, 196 Wn.App 599 (Div. I 2001) is a case which does a good job of explaining permissive use. But, it is also a case which then muddies the water when comparing adverse possession and prescriptive easement.
Kunkel starts out: “In a claim for a prescriptive easement, the use of another’s property
Big game next Sunday. For those folks who will be out on the gridiron, for what is likely the majority of their lives, they have likely been asked: How Bad Do You Want It?
It’s quite likely that many of them want it pretty-darn bad. So much so that if it were legal to
This morning I had the privilege of spending time with Carl Jorgensen of WFG National Title Insurance in a presentation to real estate agents. Carl is a personable, professional person. He’s very knowledgeable in his field.
At any rate, we got into an interesting area of easement laws: Merger.
Merger occurs when the servient (i.e.
If you have a boundary issue with your neighbor, you probably are not in such good cheer.
Well, now is the time to do something about it. Justice Smiles has refined its process to further assist you. This is how it lays out.
In the last couple of days, I have had not one, but two inquiries as to what possible remedy might be available when an adjoining wall is listing over onto one’s property.
I find it rather amazing, but to my knowledge Washington State doesn’t have a specific cause of action. Washington case law does include situations in
The scenario is this. You and your neighbor have purchased properties. Neither you nor your neighbor had a survey prior to purchase. So, the result is when either of you later do have a survey, it is discovered that there are in fact some [potential] encroachments.
However when you purchased your home, you found out – verbally of course –
“Wars of Reasonableness” – as defined here at Justice Smiles – are generally conducted by providing choice:
Justice
A Boundary Line Adjustment (“BLA”) requires that both your property and your neighbor’s property be surveyed. Surveyed not just as to the boundary line. Surveyed not just as to their respective ‘footprints.’ But instead, surveyed as to all of that – as well as all fixtures.
Q: What’s a fixture? A: Anything that wouldn’t fall off
