Finally got my neighbor's fence dispute sorted without a lawyer

Honestly, I spent 3 months going back and forth with my neighbor over a property line that was off by 2 feet according to the city survey. I kept seeing people on here jump straight to filing a lawsuit or paying lawyers $300 an hour, but I just took him the official land title and the survey map from Edmonton's open data portal. We sat down with coffee, walked the line with measuring tape, and agreed to split the cost of a new fence marker. Has anyone else had luck solving boundary stuff without involving lawyers?

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harperwright11d agoTop Commenter

Pulled out the old fence posts myself after we measured. Found the original property stakes from 1985 buried under some grass. Saved a ton of money and the neighbor actually helped me dig the new holes.

the_ruby11d ago

Told my buddy Dave about this post and he had the same luck you did with @harperwright's approach. His neighbor kept insisting the property line was 3 feet into his yard based on some old family story. Dave just looked up the city's digital survey records on his phone right there on the lawn and walked the tape with him. Turned out the neighbor's granddad had planted a hedge way over the line in the 70s and nobody ever checked. They dug up the old marker posts together and Dave helped him transplant the hedge to the correct spot. No lawyers, no surveys, just cold hard data and a willingness to actually talk it out.