Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania
I received 2 tax bills from the county , one for property (40 acres) I purchased in 2010 and one for 4 acres across the road from it. When i contacted the tax office i was told that the 4 acres was part of the deed and i owned it. ( A surveyor varified it's part of the original deed) I questioned the tax paper which stated it was a vacant lot, but someone lives in a mobile home on it and had lived there 20 years. This tenant said that he had permission from the prior owner to live there. After the owner died his brother sold me the property not knowing this person lives on the 4 acres. I paid the taxes for 2010 for both properties but i don't want to pay taxes on property i don't have access to. The man who lives in the mobile home stated that he's entiled to the property since the prior owner died and he's lived there so long. This person owns 1 acre next to his mobile home . what are my rights or am i stuck with a squatter?
2 Answers from Attorneys
You can either kick the squatter off your property or reform the deed to exclude that tract. Either way you will have to go to court to fix this problem. Hire an attorney. But hurry your right to that tract of land ends after 21 years; and 20 years had already gone by.
You said that he was living on the property with permission. If so, he doesn't get the property without you selling or giving it to him.
If you want to give him the property, have a lawyer draft an appropriate deed giving him the property.
If you want him off the property, have a lawyer file the appropriate legal action.
You may want to consider not paying the tax bill for this 4 acres and leting it go for tax sale.
Sit down with your lawyer and explore your options.
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