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Pay for a survey. If you're going to get in a pissing match with a neighbor over borders, you damn well better have a valid survey on your side.
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You could check for property corners with a metal detector. Might be lucky and find a piece of rebar or pipe driven into he ground.
Pay for a survey. If you're going to get in a pissing match with a neighbor over borders, you damn well better have a valid survey on your side.
This.
And then put a big-ass fence on that line.
If you have a neighbor that is causing problems over a property line, you need a damned fence yesterday.
When my dad expanded his garden (staked out a 10-foot deer fence,) his neighbor went insane. You see, it seems that in Mississippi, the rationale is that if you mow a piece of land, then you own it.
Dad got a survey done, and it turns out that Dad owned a LOT more of the man's "lawn" than he thought. After the neighbor saw the surveyor markers, he hired it own survey. He got the same results as Dad. So he hired ANOTHER surveyor. Same results.
So after three surveys, I made DAMN sure that Dad's deer fence went to the EXACT edge of the property line.
The neighbor is still pissed. He ran his mouth for a while, lied a bit until he got caught in the lie and made to look like a fool.
I now sight in my guns five feet over the property line even though I have a 600 yard range behind my house.
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I am not really worried about long-term ramifications.
The POS bastard was lucky enough to get a kidney transplant a while back, but still burned this one up with his drinking. He's now on dialysis, and I just found out today that he is about to have extremely high-risk quadruple by-pass surgery. I figure that he'll be having an uncomfortable chat with St. Peter before I have to ever speak to him again.