Yikes
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I have a project that is scheduled to start construction in 3 weeks. The first thing that will happen is demolition / scraping of the entire site (we are essentially building to the property line). It turns out the neighboring apartment building has a parking lot light pole that the surveyor says is on our side of the property line, so we need to demo it.
We've made several attempts to contact both the owner (via registered mail), and the apartment manager (in person), but to no avail. We don't know if they're unconcerned, passive-aggressive, or both.
If we start demo as planned, we would leave live wires in a conduit in their parking lot. Several issues:
1. Obviously, this isn't safe for the neighbors.
2. The demo process might not be safe for our workers either. (There's probably some cowboy who would do it, but the insurance companies wouldn't like it!)
3. Even if we cut the conduit exactly on the property line, there's probably some encroachement by our workers onto their property to accomplish this.
Does anyone have expereince on how to legally resolve these issues? How can we keep our neighbor's non-legal encroachment from holding up our project, without endangering anyone?
We've made several attempts to contact both the owner (via registered mail), and the apartment manager (in person), but to no avail. We don't know if they're unconcerned, passive-aggressive, or both.
If we start demo as planned, we would leave live wires in a conduit in their parking lot. Several issues:
1. Obviously, this isn't safe for the neighbors.
2. The demo process might not be safe for our workers either. (There's probably some cowboy who would do it, but the insurance companies wouldn't like it!)
3. Even if we cut the conduit exactly on the property line, there's probably some encroachement by our workers onto their property to accomplish this.
Does anyone have expereince on how to legally resolve these issues? How can we keep our neighbor's non-legal encroachment from holding up our project, without endangering anyone?