Is there a real-estate lawyer in the house?

[mirkwood]

We have a lawyer that I believe is an idiot. My parents hired him because he was the only trial lawyer in southeast maine. My father died and this sh#t did not help him but my mom is determined.

[Alberta's Child]

Hook it up to a Dodge Ram 3500 (with the Cummins Turbo Diesel) and yank it away in the dead of the night.

The pickup truck is probably cheaper than the lawyer.

[beltfed308]

If the deed and survey are for that property it should not be that difficult.

[Paperdoll]

I'm not a lawyer, but in my state if you don't get the guy off your land before ten years, it's his.

[Walkingfeather]

Every state has a bar association. http://www.mainebar.org/
file a complaint against the attorney. Get a referal for a new attorney. Call a local real estate agent and get a recommendation. This should not have gone on this long.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

I don't know much first thing i would do is
Hire a professional to survey the property edges.
Secoond once you got the official results, you go in with eviction orders with a new better lawyer and sue the shit out of them for destroying your property, legal fees and back rent!

If they won't get their stuff off your property still, go to craigslist and advertise free stuff to haul off your property, this is what a friend of mine did when someone didn't pay the rent for 2 months. Rvs, clothes, tvs, all gone instantly!

[Doctor Stochastic]

You seem stuck with a fake estate-lawyer. Try letting your mouse do the walking through The Yellow Pages.

[MineralMan]

I can make little sense of your post. You may want to try it again, but take a little more time and describe the situation a bit more fully.

In either case, nobody but an attorney can help you with this. It's a legal matter. I'd pay very little attention to any legal advise you get here on Free Republic.

[TommyDale]

Yep. Get some action NOW or it will belong to the neighbor by default. I think the law here is 7 years.

[FormerACLUmember]

Go to town hall. Make ABSOLUTELY certain the land is yours with documentation. Then haul the trailer off your land on to public domain (a roadside).

[RobRoy]

8 YEARS?!?!?!

There is more to this story...

[The KG9 Kid]

Don't do anything rash.

Get another lawyer. Confirm in court that the property is yours. Survey it if you have to. Once that's settled, hit the neighbors with an order to vacate your land, and simultaneously sue them for unpaid rental fees over the period of use that is in line with other lots of the same size in the same area -- less 5% because 'you're a nice guy'. If there's trash and crap to be removed, charge them for that too.

I am not a lawyer, but I play one in this thread.

[be4everfree]

Put up a fence and shoot him if he comes on YOUR property.

[paul51]

If you like the sheriff's neighborhood, get yourself a trailer and set up your new home on his property.

[calljack]

You are talking about adverse possession and there is more to it that that. Just give him permission to be there and then you can change your mind anytime.
Also he would have to pay the taxes on the land.

[mirkwood]

Yoe were right up until taking their property. the state of maine says they can stay until the hearing. Whenever.

[TommyDale]

Don't screw around with a real estate attorney, get a bulldog civil litigator, and sue the neighbor into oblivion. Swear out a warrant for trespassing. Throw everything at him but the kitchen sink. Do a controlled burn of the property, and smoke him out.

[Williams]

Sympathy for this problem, but after 8 years and a lawyer and various officials involved, you have to understand that no one on this site is going to solve this problem on a message board post. In fact, I would discourage you from discussing the details of a legal dispute in public this way.

Don't know the details, and you didn't give them, but there has to be more to the story if it's not possible to evict an interloper from private property.

Also, I know Maine a little bit and don't picture SouthEast Maine as a place that would have only one attorney in the whole region. I suggest you hire another one or discuss this with the current lawyer first for a better understanding of what is going on.

[Pukin Dog]

Step 1. Put No Trespassing signs on your land.

Step 2. Take pictures of the trespassing property with date stamps.

Step 3. Have a lawyer send the pictures with an eviction notice, and invoice for time spent on your property.

Step 4. If they don't leave, sue the party in civil court, warning to take possession of the offenders property, not limited to what remains on your land.

Step 5. Hunt them down like dogs and make them pay.