198 Year Land Lease

the goq If they sold it to him i guess its legal.

It is technically “legal”, the reason he got the 200ft of land thru the land office was because the neighbor across the street was a lawyer and he used her advise on how he could get the 200ft of land, without letting the next door neighbor know about it at all, she told him two ways he could get the land that way, the first way go file a neighborhood petition, which means he would have to convince everyone in the whole entire neighborhood to sign the petition saying he gets to have the 200ft of land, or he could just go down to the land office and pay $10 to get a 99 year lease on the land, he opted for the second way to get the 200ft of land, and paid $20 at the land office to get a 198 year lease on the land.

akuperma Unless you sold him the land, his claim be challenged, and you have until the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, which in most American states is 20 years (but some are less). You may be unable to use the small claims court since many states would require this action to be brought in a court of general jurisdiction since it is an action to determine ownership of land. If you are in the US, you need to check your deed (in some countries you’ll need to check an official registry). In any event you need a lawyer. Disputes over land are hardly unheard of, in part since even when buying a house many purchasers don’t have the property surveyed. If you have title insurance, you might also file a claim since if your deed included the land, they are required to defend your claim.

P.S. Your reference to a “land office” suggests you are not in US, since a central land office sounds like a Torrens system – so contact a lawyer in your jurisdiction. Anyone who handles real estate matters should be competent to deal with this.

This happened in the USA. A lawyer was already gotten but unfortunately the neighbor knew the judge and he ruled in the neighbor’s favor, the judge’s exact words when I first walked into the courtroom for the very first time was ” how long will this procession be, I have a lunch date at 1:00pm”, part of the problem with the situation is my neighbor thinks he is entitled to the 200ft of land in my backyard is because he was best friends with the former owner of the house, the former owner of the house wanted him to have the 200ft of land, even after he sold me the house, so they did a back door deal, that the neighbor gets the 200ft of land, without me even knowing anything about it at all.

You own the property as it is described in whatever documents were

involved in its sale to you, and no back-door deal can change that.

Perhaps you meant to say “What would be the best course of action be if ur next door neighbor legally leased 200ft of land from ur backyard to build a double fence on his backyard, by going to the land office and for $10 there, u can get a 99 year lease on the land, he spent $20 to get a 198 year lease on the land?”

Comlink-X U are right in a certain way, but unfortunately there is a loop hole in the land ownership law in the state where I lived that u can technically lease land from the owner of the house, without the owner of the house knowing about it at all, by going to the land office and getting a 198 year lease for $20.

Unfortunately technically my neighbor is the owner of the 200ft of my backyard for the next 198 years.

dash No, at most he’s a leaseowner. Who is the permanent owner? And what about the rest of your property?

Did the previous owner give you the deed for the entire property or was that 200ft carved out before you got it?

Are you on Native American land?

I am permanent owner of the 200ft of land after my neighbor’s 198 year lease is done, I am the permanent owner of the rest of my property, the former owner of my house just gave me the deed to the property, no.

DaasYochid Do you have $10? You can lease it back for 99 years.

It doesn’t work like that, the 200ft of land for the next 198 years, is my neighbor’s land.

It doesn’t work like that, the 200ft of land for the next 198 years, is my neighbor’s land.

popa_bar_abba What? You can’t lease from a lessee? He isn’t allowed to sublease?

Unfortunately, the state land ownership law works only one way, that is once my neighbor leased the 200ft of land for 198 years for $20 at the land office, it become his 200ft of land till the lease is up, the 200ft of land can’t be subleased because it is against the law to do that, besides that aspect he won’t let me sublease the land to begin with because he is an Anti-Semite.