Yes read all the posts here and comment on them please! But there are so many folks with great information that we can all share and discuss that needs to be put out there.
Don’t Monkey around. Go. Start a new subject. Add to an already going subject. Meet your neighbors.
Hey, I was a new owner once also. So I am not trying to be pompous here just listing the things you will be saying about those newbies in a few years….
10. Fail to realize they are the newcomers to an established community.
9. Fail to understand that your property and your life depend on how well you treat your neighbors.
8. Shoot at people for trespassing ( see THIS)
7. Make booby traps or trench across a path (See Prison Time)
6. Think that if somebody does not use an easement for 5 years it has been abandoned and they fence it.
5. Look at their deed and think it would have any and all easements on it. (see THIS)
4. Put in their well before figuring out where their septic will go.
3. Build a fence to protect themselves from liability see THIS and California Civil Code § 846
2. Fence a property with barbed wire (cattle ranchers now use high tensile wire and thieves just cut it)
1. Build a fence across a documented easement. (average legal cost = $73,000)
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