r/landsurveying

Purchased former model home, about 20 years old, 5 previous owners, in AZ. 13 years ago. New neighbor insisted part of our fence on his property. He hired a surveyor and that survey differs from GIF. 3" of the tip of our fence where the side fence joins the front fence is on his property, the rest is not. He is demanding that we move the fence. Fence company complies with GIF when fence installed, approved by County, approved by HOA. We closed with a Title Company and realtors, not uncommon in AZ. I do realize that we have a claim to that 3" because we have maintained it for 12 years. Anyone have any experience with anything like this? (It throws off the surveys of the homes running alongside us, also by 3". HOA, of course, doesn't know.)

Is there a free property survey option? I told my neighbor to stay off my property but hes always in my front yard and will mow some of my grass even when its cut already.

While under contract, we had a survey done which mentions,

"DWELLING

ENCROACHES ON 25' FRONT BUILDING

SETBACK LINE PER F.M..

POSSIBLE EASEMENT BASED ON FIELD

OBSERVATION BASED ON DRAIN."

We've reached out to find out exactly what that means (so we'll probably get an answer on Monday) but curious if anyone has ever had this mentioned in a survey and what it means...

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