Today we signed releases for a piece of our new property to be used by a neighbor and to allow us to use his power pole to bring power to our new home.
The back story is that when we first considered buying the land, we were mindful that most New England land has a checkered history in terms of boundries and history. Therefore we hired a firm to survey the property. As it turned out, we owned about 30 feet of our neighbors driveway that he and his wife had been using for over 20 years. Not wanting to leave unresolved issues for our off spring, we offered an easement to the land without cost if they wrote up the documents. Later, when we were considering how to bring power to our site, our new neighbors graciously offered to let us their power pole at no cost saving us about $2,000. It is an auspicious start to being neighbors.
My brother, who is a notary, assisted by officiating the signing of these documents.
Matt
So glad to hear you got one of those good New Hampshire neighbors. I know what it was like living next to one of the bad ones. Always to have one less thing to worry about. Congratulations on the progress.
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