shoot.  propertyline problems that i'm not sure what to do about or how to
handle.  my old neighbor's 5 acre plot with home was sold 4 years ago.  now,
the new neighbors want to built a small house on their property for their
parents and that's sweet and cool and i have no problem with that.  but the
neighbor just hired a surveyor to mark the propertyline between us, so he
could build the house 20 feet from the boundary between us.  our boundary
has been a hedgerow of trees and laurels and stuff.

and there's one lone existing fence post (that i knew was there) from some
50 years ago (i've been here 30 years) that is where i've always known the
propertyline to be.   though a fencepost (and a bit of fencing) from some 15
years ago that the developers behind us  installed a sideline property line
fence (which the new owners took down with a bulldozer last week) for the
old owners, as part of a package deal to buy back some 28feet of adverse
possession land along the backline.  i know that newer fenceline is wrong,
because it took some 30 more feet from the neighbors and gave it to us.  i'm
not claiming that's mine at all, cuz i know it's not.

but today, the surveyors (the new owners hired) put their stakes some 15feet
onto my property beyond the 50 year old post.  (and the surveyor's stakes
are visibly crooked, clearly jogging in and out, as can be instead of
straight.).  which means, the area where my 24ft by 8ft woodshed building
has been for 30 years (and a couple of our boats and other things) are
supposedly on their property.  no way.  our old neighbors  would have
*never* allowed us to do that, for one thing, and for another, the wily old
guy used to push his fencelines out everytime he had to work on them (which
was why the developer had to buy back 28x660 ft from him).  and mr. and mrs.
kenny showed us the correct fenceline between us, which the old post is a
remnant of.  heck, mrs. kenny owned that property abutting ours for over 70
years.

i talked to the new owner next door, about the surveyor's stakes.   had him
walk the line with me to show him how off the stakes were.   (he just paid
these surveyors $2000 to do this.) even the new owner thinks it doesn't look
right, as far as a  crooked property line and how it seems to go on an angle
onto my property goes.  said he hasn't received their report yet, because it
is friday and they just did the job today.  said he'd call them monday and
see if he can get the report.  asked me what i thought he should ask them.
all i could think of to tell him was, "you have 660 ft of backline taking
off from doctor smith's 20 acres of land and ending at my 660 ft of
backline.  ask them to check this propertyline out against your 660ft
backline, because i know dr. smith was fanatical about having his fencelines
perfect."  i didn't know what else to say.

any other ideas, you guys?  what do i need to do and what should i do?  i
don't think the new owner wants to do anything incorrectly, but i know these
surveyor stakes aren't right.  i wish butch were here.

kate