What Is Property Encroachment?
Although owning a home brings freedoms that are unable with living in an apartment, home ownership also represents limitations when it comes to your property lines. Every single family home has boundaries. The boundary lines or property limitations for your home can be found on the specification sheet that lists all of the other details for your home such as room sizes and total square footage of your home. Familiarizing yourself with these specifications and knowing the limits of your property can save you hassles should you run into any problems with your neighbors about where your property ends and their property begins.
Property encroachment is a situation which occurs when someone on one lot builds something which protrudes into the neighboring lot. One of the classic cases is structural encroachment, in which part of a building spills over the lot line, but building fences, gardening beds, and other features which overstep the property line could also be termed property encroachment. Some interesting legal situations can occur in cases of property encroachment, and as a general rule, the sooner it is dealt with, the better.
