02 Mar Battling the state over property lines

Imagine you’ve lived in your home for 27 years.

When you finally decide to sell, you learn that you never had clear title to your property. And you can’t sell until you get it.

That’s what happened to one New Jersey couple whose property borders a state park in two places. On one property line, it turns out the previous owner encroached on the state’s land, but no one — not the surveyor, not the real estate agent, not the title company, not even the town’s inspectors — noticed the problem.

A problem that now belongs to the current owners.