Slowly Stealing
During my childhood, our neighbor who lived next door decided to sell his house. One day, my father noticed him outside, trying to mark the boundaries for a fence. Unfortunately, his markings were quite inaccurate compared to the actual property lines. This led to a heated discussion involving our neighbor, my father, and another neighbor whose property was adjacent to ours. In the end, the three neighbors agreed and decided to hire a professional surveyor. The surveyor’s assessment discovered that the markers placed by one neighbor had actually crossed over onto the adjacent properties by approximately twenty feet on all sides.
Moreover, these markings extend a little over a hundred feet into the wooded area at the back. It became clear that the neighbor was slowly trying to take over land from the surrounding properties, possibly with the intention of building a fence to legitimize these unauthorized expansions before selling his property.
