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bartel
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Hi, I live next door to a nice couple, don't know them very well but about 5yrs ago the back of their garden collapsed taking with it a bit of my boundry wall that was behind my garage. They reinforced their garden but never replaced the boundary wall and I was not bothered as I can't access that bit of space behind my garage due to the layout of my garden.
Its a bit complicated to explain without drawing a picture but there is a piece of narrow space behind my garage about 7ft by 15ft that until the wall collapsed was full of briars. They cleared it out since and for the past 5yrs have put a little storage shed into and as their garden is much smaller than mine, get use out of it. I really am not bothered as becasue their house is stepped back from mine they are able to access it whereas I am not.
They have now asked me could they continue their fence which stopped where the original boundary wall used to be, back behind my garage.
I told them go ahead, I don't use this bit of the garden so if they get use of it good and well....but after I said it I thought heck, I plan to sell the house sometime and am worried that this might cause problems.
You hear such stories especially in the UK of disputes between neighbours re boundaries and thats the last thing I want. I am happy to let them use it but I think would prefer that they would have no rights to it if I ever came to sell and it wouldn't become a problem with the sale.
Would they have squatters rights by now anyway?? Any advice?
Its a bit complicated to explain without drawing a picture but there is a piece of narrow space behind my garage about 7ft by 15ft that until the wall collapsed was full of briars. They cleared it out since and for the past 5yrs have put a little storage shed into and as their garden is much smaller than mine, get use out of it. I really am not bothered as becasue their house is stepped back from mine they are able to access it whereas I am not.
They have now asked me could they continue their fence which stopped where the original boundary wall used to be, back behind my garage.
I told them go ahead, I don't use this bit of the garden so if they get use of it good and well....but after I said it I thought heck, I plan to sell the house sometime and am worried that this might cause problems.
You hear such stories especially in the UK of disputes between neighbours re boundaries and thats the last thing I want. I am happy to let them use it but I think would prefer that they would have no rights to it if I ever came to sell and it wouldn't become a problem with the sale.
Would they have squatters rights by now anyway?? Any advice?