A Warning for Property Owners (Boulder, CO)

My Fox Colorado ^ | Novmeber 5, 2007 | TAMMY VIGIL

[beaversmom]

BOULDER -- A warning for property owners. A little-known law could allow a trespasser to take your property without paying a penny for it.

[Royal Wulff]

They're both Democrats of course. Edith Stevens is treasurer for House District 13 incumbent Claire Levy:

Website: http://www.clairelevy.org/
Email: claire@clairelevy.org

Edith Stevens, Treasurer
2059 Hardscrabble Drive
Boulder, CO 80305 

Whence:

You can always telephone me at 303-866-2578 or send me an e-mail at Claire.Levy.House@state.co.us.

[org.whodat]

Hmmmmm.....

The truth be told if it were my property and I had a deed showing it was mine and a survey. The attorney would be in the same location as Peterson's wife. "Missing"

[Gondring]

New York, too

[scrabblehack]

In Pennsylvania, they used to call it “squatters’ rights”

[Shadowstrike]

Was buying a piece of land here in Alabama, the people next door decided they wanted some of it. They moved the Survey markers. Had a Survey to prove that the land was mine. Court made them move off it.

Ain’t had a problem with them since. :)

[Gondring]

ping

[editor-surveyor]

"Off topic, but I wonder why the judge and lawyer don’t have the same last name if they are married."

Because that's the way liberals do it; it makes it easy to divorce when they want to tryout new partners.

[editor-surveyor]

"Adverse posession—a hard thing to win"

Yes, because it requires the payment of the taxes by written request for five years. I doubt that they qualify.

[Gondring]

who?

[beaversmom]

Well according to some people posting on this thread, all you have to do is set up shop or say you set up shop and if no one complains and you do if for enough years, you win.

[longtermmemmory]

the concept of “adverse possession” is older than the United States. It is NOT little known. It is taught in first year property in all law schools.

[george76]

they need to build a yurt ...

8-)

and / or an attorney.

No telling what a title search will find.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[beaversmom]

Was this already posted or something? Didn’t see this particular title when I did a search. Also searched under Boulder but didn’t bring a story up for this.

[beaversmom]

Nevermind—I think you are talking about a different kind of title. DUH! :)

[ExSES]

In court documents, Stevens and McLean claim they were entitled to the property which is next to their home because they had used it "openly, continuously, and notoriously for 25 years."

It is called "Adverse Possession" and has been a legal way to "steal" property for well over a century!

[geopyg]

There is a sign on some old mining property that says:

NO TRESSPASING
Nothing back here is worth your life.

I’m not sure if it is meant as a warning of “natural” dangers such as mine shafts, old equipment, etc. or the right of the owner to defend his property!?

[george76]

This is where I found your husbands’s yurt idea...

hippies always want free lodging ?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924861/posts?page=16#16

[TigersEye]

Boulder.

[shhrubbery!]

Ummmm, people this is a VERY (very) old principle law, coming down from English law called “adverse possession,” not some new commie thing coming out of Boulder.

You're right. I'm not a lawyer, but I researched adverse possession law when I had to fight my own boundary dispute case (which I did successfully, pro se).

I found myself studying adverse possesion law dating back to Norman rule over England.