Shared fences and eminent domain

[srvy]

The best thing you can do is bite the bullet and get a legal boundary survey by a licensed surveyor. Have pins recovered and reset if missing with encroachments shown to yours or adjacent properties. Then have fence line stakes set along property line with inter visibility. This will show your serious about your property rights and end any adverse possession nonsense. It will be an expense but what is your land worth to you.

Also a mortgage survey is just that its not a legal survey and will not hold up in court its not a boundary survey and doesn't have an official seal and signature with license number of a registered land surveyor for the state performed. Its imo a fraud perpetrated by the mortgage lending industry to satisfy title insurance companies. Look at your certificate closely a legal survey will show corners set and what was set or found. It will clearly state that a legal boundary survey was made with date and a signed and sealed certificate of survey with registered land surveyors license number.

A mortgage survey in fine print will state not a boundary survey with an official looking seal. Scrupulous surveyors do this because its easy money for the out the garage door surveyor. He can do 5 to 10 in a day at 100 to 150 a pop for a mortgage company and it satisfies a title insurance company.