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Your Neighbor’s Fence Could Devalue Your Property

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Jason W. Estavillo
25+ years of practicing law. Founder of Estavillo Law Group. Juris Doctor degree from the Golden Gate University School of Law. Licensed to practice in California and Maine, and admitted in each of the United States District Courts within California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Estavillo Law Group
At the Estavillo Law Group, we have 50 years of combined experience inReal Estate and Foreclosure law. We offer a big firm experience at a small firm price. Most large law firms have become so big it translates to an enormous overhead. At our firm, we are committed to delivering the highest quality results while keeping our client costs down.

Your Neighbor’s Fence Devalues Your Property

So if you own property here in California, you own a home, and you have a neighbor who isn’t respectful of your property boundaries, and they could actually put a new fence up that’s on your property. They encroach on your property, and they’ve in essence stolen from you some of the value of your property.

What are your options in those situations? The first thing is let’s verify where the property boundaries are. Getting a survey by a licensed survey company here in California. Knowing where the property lines are is the first, is the foundation to being able to address these issues. Then it would be most likely sending a demand letter.

Obviously, you could try to do this on your own because it’s your property. However, our recommendation at this stage is to hire an attorney to help navigate this situation. And by sending a demand letter, if the homeowner, your neighbor, doesn’t respond, the next course of action would be litigation because we would have to go into court to make sure that the court prevents them from doing anything further.

Furthermore, if you don’t do anything, it’s arguably possible that they could actually acquire your property over a period of time without them doing anything else. And that would decrease the value of your property as well. So in those situations, definitely reach out to an attorney. Reach out to us.

We’ll have a, we’re happy to provide a 15 minute free consultation to answer any questions you might have and help navigate the situation in a better way.