If when I bought my house, my neighbor had already placed a basketball goal on my property in the ground with cement, what can I do if it is broken?
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If when I bought my house, my neighbor had already placed a basketball goal on my property in the ground with cement, what can I do if it is broken?
It hasn’t been an issue until recently when the goal became rusted and the backboard became broken with birds living on/in it. He will not remove it. What options do I have?
Asked on May 30, 2012 under Real Estate Law, Indiana
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
You can remove it if it is on your property (assuming, as is almost certainly safe to assume, that there is no easement in his favor granting him the right to do this--you could check you deed and title to be sure). No one else has the right to have or place anything on your property without your permission, unless there was an easement.
You may be able to sue him for the cost of removing it, if he did not have permission of the then-owner to place it.
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