Nothing makes a house feel smaller faster than a growing family and a floor plan that’s already maxed out. In downtown Louisville, one homeowner finally sat down with an architect to push forward on an addition—only to realize the real bottleneck wasn’t design or budget. It was a fence.
After getting an official survey and recording it with the county, the homeowner discovered the fence line didn’t match the property line. Roughly three to four feet of their lot sat on the neighbor’s side of the fence running toward the back. When the homeowner tried to reclaim that strip for the remodel, the neighbor pushed back with an alarming claim: the land was “now theirs” because of adverse possession. The details come from the original post.
The survey didn’t match the fence, and that’s where the trouble started
The homeowner bought the property in 2018 and, like plenty of people trying to survive closing costs, skipped the survey at purchase. By 2019 they did get an “official property survey” completed, and it was added to the Jefferson County property records.
That survey showed the problem in black and white: the fence wasn’t sitting on the boundary. The homeowner’s line was several feet on the other side, meaning the neighbor had been using a skinny slice of land that technically wasn’t theirs…