06-11-2010, 09:49 PM
Well, my wife worked for a civil engineer for years and did a lot of surveying too, so we knew when we bought the property that we had legal access, and in our state, you can't transfer a deed to land locked property. The alley is a 20 foot right of way off of the main side street that runs between our business neighbor and the old folks on the main road. It dead ends at our property line.
Of course the township trustee would not come right out and tell the neighbor at the end of the alley on the other side that we had a legal right of way, so I had to go to the county engineers office and get the paperwork that shows the alley was platted and accepted in 1917. I told this fellow the day I bought the place that it was an alley and he tried to tell me it wasn't. I find it rather funny that he has been using it as an alley for 52 years, going past 5 other properties.
He has been parking in the middle of this alley for 52 years, now I think it real strange that he made all of this fuss because he has a double wide driveway with a turn around and double car garage that comes off the main road. I think he thinks I should just give him my property.
They all tell me how they were going to buy this place, which had been on the market for over a year, and they could afford it, I think they just figured no one would buy it without a drive way, and I found out they even convinced a buyer before us that the alley was not an alley and killed the sale. That was my gain.
What it boils down to is we payed 15,000 for a newer home and an acre of reasonably level ground. I had to drill a well, and do some work but I'll still be under 30, 000 even with the drive and our train building.
Most of the work was just labor, cutting grass, cutting grass, cutting grass, I think you get the point.
Here are some pictures of the place they day we closed.
Charlie
Of course the township trustee would not come right out and tell the neighbor at the end of the alley on the other side that we had a legal right of way, so I had to go to the county engineers office and get the paperwork that shows the alley was platted and accepted in 1917. I told this fellow the day I bought the place that it was an alley and he tried to tell me it wasn't. I find it rather funny that he has been using it as an alley for 52 years, going past 5 other properties.
He has been parking in the middle of this alley for 52 years, now I think it real strange that he made all of this fuss because he has a double wide driveway with a turn around and double car garage that comes off the main road. I think he thinks I should just give him my property.
They all tell me how they were going to buy this place, which had been on the market for over a year, and they could afford it, I think they just figured no one would buy it without a drive way, and I found out they even convinced a buyer before us that the alley was not an alley and killed the sale. That was my gain.
What it boils down to is we payed 15,000 for a newer home and an acre of reasonably level ground. I had to drill a well, and do some work but I'll still be under 30, 000 even with the drive and our train building.
Most of the work was just labor, cutting grass, cutting grass, cutting grass,
I think you get the point.Here are some pictures of the place they day we closed.
Charlie