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My parents bought their home over 15 years ago. It used to be part of a 5 acre track of land. When my parents bought their land they bought 1.3 acres of the 5 acre track. Recently their neighbor of around 10-11 years decided to sell after the death of her husband. When she put the property up for sale she had the land surveyed. The survey showed that the fence that has been up since before I was born (I will be 19 in June) has been moved. The neighbors want to put up a fence where their “real” property line is. The fence would then have to go through our house!!! We have talked to a lawyer about this and he says that since the original land surveyer was wrong it is the neighbors property and they are entitled to it. There is obviously a mistake here. Why would my parents have bought a house that is halfway on someone elses property? Since my parents have taken care of this property for the past 15 years and have paid taxes on it could it legaly be ours now? Any Texas Lawyers?
My parents property is in Moody, Texas. It is about 20 minutes away from Waco, Texas. If that helps any…
When the property was first surveyed after being split up the survey was wrong. The surveyer apparently was known for being awful at what he did for a living. The surveyer is now dead so we can’t get him to admit what he put down on paper is wrong. All of the surveys are wrong, but the fence has always been there. We have the right amount of property but when the first surveyer drew up the survey he showed the fence in the wrong place and there is no way we can physically prove it, except that the fence was there before the neighbors house was even built, and our house was there long before we moved in.