All Forum Posts by: Tamara R.

@Peter Walther is it possible to buy a house through a realtor and the title company you use doesn’t have a title? I just thought the bargain and sales deed meant they couldn’t guarantee there wasn’t someone out there that could claim it since the people were dead and nobody knew after looking if there was any more next of kin they couldn’t find that may some day come forward and try to claim it , they said they couldn’t guarantee anything to insure bc it was a bargain and sales deed since the house was given to the charity but we have the title on it.

@Peter Walther it’s a bargain and sales deed. I’m not very familiar with them but looked them up and thought I read at some point that they are common but not insured from the title company bc there is nobody alive anymore when I bought it from the charity they gave it to.

@Steve Morris. I’m not sure maybe it’s what is a called party line? Their sewer pipe is going from their house across our yard and ties into ours and we have a connect to the city on our line.

@Allison Ezzi. Working on my easement issue. Maybe he is saying that so you are aware of it so some point he may say he has a prescriptive easement and you didn’t stop him from using it? I thought it had to be for a certain amount of time after you knew and still let him use it then it becomes ok for him to use it legally? Idk just thought maybe that’s what he is thinking.

@Theresa Harris exactly. I think she is thinking that since the insurance stated they only pay for what’s in her property maybe. Not sure why she thinks we’re responsible for the whole thing. They may have to use some sort of pump if they go through their property and it would be really expensive to tear up their basement so I think they are trying to take the cheapest way. Our whole basement is torn up now just for our part but would be more tearing for their part and I’m not sure the city would allow them to hook back into a shared line anyways. It’s also very expensive for them to fix their part of the line going to our place and I think they are using the prescriptive easement they say they have to still be on our property and not have the hassle of theirs. Also to go direct to their stub put there by the city it runs across a water main. If they don’t put in a pump the city would have to tear out the entire street. It would just be way easier and cheaper for them to keep using our property. At first it would be a bummer for us to keep it but was willing to for good neighbor sake but after they said they weren’t paying for any repair or cleanup from their clog I don’t want that kind of irresponsible neighbor anyplace on ours. So probably to court we go. They may have been skipping giving us a written up document to change it and doing it that day as a sneak tactic then just say it was already there. Idk??

Thanks Colleen. I’m definitely going to need a lawyer which is a bummer since we could have spent whatever money on that actually working on the problem and after reading the law she will probably end up having to pay  more than we asked for in the beginning. I was trying to be a nice reasonable neighbor.

@Colleen F. I think they can run to their own stub on the street and I think the city has to be available for them and there is already one there. They are using ours bc they never had their own there prior to the city updating but they would have a waaay harder time to do it, either use a pump to go uphill or I think the city would have to move the main water line in the whole street to get them access unless we allow them a new easement. I felt bad at first it would be hard for them until they said they wanted me to be responsible for allll the cost of our shared line after their poo filled our basement and the repairs and upkeep was on us.Now I don’t care. I just want them to use their own property if possible.

@Steve B. I am on the other end of a similar situation and the pipe is broken. We only use about 15 feet of pipe and the neighbor uses our whole lot. Their sewer in the house got a clog then was pushed down and backed up poop in our basement. Now they don’t want to pay anything towards fixing it since they say it is on our property and they want us to sign for another easement that will take up half our yard. I don’t want this if they aren’t going to pay for anything on our property. They have a prescriptive easement under our basement of no written record. The pipe is also broken above us in the yard and we don’t even use that part but needs to be fixed. I’m also in Oregon. Any advise or attorney you know who deals with easements?

@Darius Ogloza I don’t have title insurance because it was a title that was uninsurable from a charity I bought and the people had died. There is nothing on record from anything anyone can find.

@Darius Ogloza I wish they are from the 1920s so i think it would be a prescribed easement and nothing on record.