I bought a house in Kentucky with a driveway in between two empty lots. Or so I thought, turns out the driveway belongs to the empty lot next door. I'm assuming there is an easement since there was at one point a garage behind my house and no other way to get to the garage.
Did some digging and the lots belong to an LLC in Oklahoma that went defunct about 20 years ago. The city maintains the grass on the lots but have taken no legal action on the lots because from their perspective it is not worth the expense to foreclose.
Anyone run into any situations like this? If so, what did you do? I'm using the driveway since there is no one there to tell me not to, but it would be nice to shore up my rights legally.
Posted by mistereousone
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Maybe you can buy the whole lot for peanuts if back taxes are owed.
Personally I would talk to the city, see how much the foreclosure costs would be and, if not super pricey, pay for the foreclosure costs.
No idea what the law is there, but in most jurisdictions, if you pay the property tax and use it for some period of time, it’s yours, 7-30 years I think, so look it up.