I'll try to make this a short as possible...we purchased our house about 4 years ago and although it did not have a garage it had sufficient space in the backyard to build a nice size shop(YAY!). Knowing this was my future intentions I had a survey performed prior to closing which outlined the utility easements that were essentially along the property line. Fast forward to last fall I had finally saved up the money and was ready to pull the trigger...I met with the building department and informally reviewed my survey to which they had no issues as long as I stayed outside of the easements. Got some estimates and got everything finalized this spring for a late summer build(Mid-August....). A few weeks ago I had the utilities come out to mark any underground utilities(shouldn't be any issues...right?). The water group ended up marking a sewer line which ran about 3/4 of my property in the easement then turning 45 degrees and running through the middle of my yard which ended up ~6" across the front of my proposed shop. Since this was not on the survey or original plat I had engineering come out to verify what was marked to be correct and, unfortunately, it was. I pulled the plat when the house was built in the early 90s to which the easements align with my most recent survey.
I have read conflicting information on how to proceed. Anything from getting up with the closing attorney, to contacting a new attorney, to filing a claim with the title insurance agency, or even getting up with the survey company but I have exhausted my google-fu and am a bit lost. I'm not trying to be someone who is sue happy, but at the same time we would have likely changed our mind when purchasing the house had we known I would be significantly limited when trying to build a shop.
So here I am, a bit annoyed as well as disappointed I still don't have a place to work on my vehicles and asking the folks of CFF if they have been down this road...how have you handled it?
I have read conflicting information on how to proceed. Anything from getting up with the closing attorney, to contacting a new attorney, to filing a claim with the title insurance agency, or even getting up with the survey company but I have exhausted my google-fu and am a bit lost. I'm not trying to be someone who is sue happy, but at the same time we would have likely changed our mind when purchasing the house had we known I would be significantly limited when trying to build a shop.
So here I am, a bit annoyed as well as disappointed I still don't have a place to work on my vehicles and asking the folks of CFF if they have been down this road...how have you handled it?
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