Anyone familiar with this law by chance? Have some questions. thx
Anyone familiar with this law by chance? Have some questions. thx
Not familiar but you got my curiosity so I looked it up. Interesting.
https://michiganrelaw.com/2021/01/11...n-in-michigan/
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Interesting isn't it? To me, if it is your property, it should always be your property but I guess that makes too much sense. I have a neighbor that lives back in the woods a ways. His shed and garden are on my property. I found this out recently when I had a survey completed so I could harvest timber. Google Earth shows the garden was there in 2010 but not in 2006. It only has images in 2006 and 2010. There is no true way of telling when it was built since no building permit was pulled.
Now the right thing to do is to get a few cases of beer, round up our tractors, and move the shed and garden over 50' to a new location. But my integrity to do the right thing is questioned by this rule they call Adverse Possession and a neighbor that doesn't seem to want to play fare.
Quite a few years ago a guy I used to work with was approached by the state of Michigan telling him that his pole barn was partially on state land and that it needed to be moved. Well he fought it in court and won because of this law. He had been there 30 years and the barn around 17 years.
It is hard to believe that something built illegally is allowed to stay after a certain number of years. It just doesn't make sense. Lesson learned, have a property survey completed prior to buying another piece of property.
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