[WSBARP] Unknown Boundary Dispute Remedy - Reality Check

[Gregory L. Ursich]

Paul: 
2 options:
1. Self-help; write to neighbor and say that items are encroaching and trespassing, and document when 1st installed.  Give them 10 days to remove them; after 10 days inform them your client will remove them and place them back on neighbors' property.  inform them that any damage from removing the encroachments at that point is the neighbor's responsibility; or
2. File ejectment/Quiet title action, and get summary judgment.  -Greg


Gregory L. Ursich 
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From: wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com] On Behalf Of Paul Neumiller
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 4:47 PM
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Subject: [WSBARP] Unknown Boundary Dispute Remedy - Reality Check

Listmates:  Neighbor recently builds new fence and garden on client's property.  Client confirms with a survey of encroachments.  In response to attorney demand letter to remove encroachments, neighbor says he'll remove improvements but not until the Fall.  Client doubts he'll do it even then.  So client asks me if client can set a date and threaten to remove the encroachments if neighbor doesn't remove by deadline (and then do it.)  Client called local sheriff who advised that client can get a "court order" to remove the encroachments and then request for a "civil standby"  to remove the encroachments to "keep the peace."  Now, I have no idea what the sheriff is talking about except maybe a quiet title action or an action for ejectment, all of which takes months and is, if I am use the "L" word, litigation.  Is there some expediated process out there I don't know about?  Something ex-parte?  I don't think so but I'd thought I'd bounce it off the hive-mind.  Thanks.