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Unfortunately I've lost now where one of the property corners is so I'd be guessing anyways

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As someone above said, include the cost of a new survey.

There's definitely not an easement, atleast not on our survey/title.

I spoke with the contractor that tore it down (I actually know the guy, not well but our boys were on the same baseball team together). His company apparently does work for this battery company, basically clearing the properties and cleaning it up for construction. The battery company supposedly asked him why don't they just leave the fence and this contractor was of the opinion that having two fences would piss me off more so the company gave them the go ahead to tear it down and rebuild off property line. Obviously a poor assumption that could've been avoided with a conversation.

As to ownership of the fence, it's an old fence. I definitely don't have any proof as to who built it and I'd be shocked if they did either. To me, without proof, it defaults to shares but ill obviously ask the attorney about that. I mostly just have proof that a fence existed (pictures and google earth), and the survey had it on the property line, and now there isn't a fence on the property line.

And I did take pictures of where they tore up ground, left dirt piled on my side and damaged some yaupons well on my side of the property

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Obviously a poor assumption that could've been avoided with a conversation.

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It's easier than ever to communicate these days, and it seems that people are less eager than ever to communicate.

He knew you well enough that he could have called you directly, or made 2-3 calls at most to find your number. But instead, he was too damn lazy to do the right thing.

Personal to me because I've also had a fence torn down without permission, and have also just finished going round and round with the reps of two different doctors offices. This over an issue that would have been solved in 30 seconds, had either of them picked up the damn phone and clarified the problem.

Spoiler alert: I have a very common first and last name, and you goofballs might have been asking for info on someone else with the same name.

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There was a fence, now that fence is gone. Who owned the fence?

Fence ownership is a lot more complex than "It's on my property line, therefore it's my fence." It's on the other guy's property line too. I don't know all the background facts or enough of the law to know whose fence it was.

I think that's his point.

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And without a survey to show for sure, it is possible that when the prior owner built the fence, he built it slightly inside the boundary of the property by an inch or two. If so, the owner of the adjacent property would own the fence and it would be his to do with as he pleases. I do not think I have ever seen a fence put up exactly on the property line, always a little bit inside it.

In our part of the world, I'd say that 99.99% of fences are built on the property line with shared upkeep and cost

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Hell no. They tore your fence down....

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Assumes facts not in evidence.

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He had a fence.

Now he doesn't have a fence.

Are you saying there is no evidence of that?

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I'm saying there's no evidence it was HIS fence. We don't know who built it or when.

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