With your King County Parcel Number, now you can seek to gain an aerial view of your property in inquiry and see the rough – yes rough – contour(s) of what is presumed by the county auditor’s office to be the boundary lines associated with your property.
Now you will want to go to
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
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 –
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
Your survey indicates that the fence encroaches your way; your neighbor’s survey indicates that the fence encroaches in their direction; or perhaps you split the cost of a survey and you found that the fence encroaches one way or another … what should be done now?
First try to find out the following facts:
A Lis Pendens is the filing of notice that a lawsuit has been commenced against a real property owner. This is a recorded document that is filed against the property, not at court, along with all the other documents such as deeds, boundary line adjustments, easement, covenants … at the county auditor or recorder’s office which normally receives
