I've spent some time reading threads here which apply to easments in WA state. So here's my question. First some background:
We own a home built in the 1920's. We have good relationships with our neighbors. Our neighbors to the North of us believe their side sewer runs through our land and hooks up with the city sewer on the street to the south of us. They know of no easments. Title searches on our house (when we bought the house and refinanced) showed no easments and searches by ourselves and our architect show no easments when we search city records.
This is my plan:
1) Get a locate company to try and locate my sewer and my neighbors'
2) Get a civil engineer to come out and survey the boundaries and include location of #1 above
3) Have architect perform as built
4) Figure our where this addition is going to go-Is it even goign to interfere with my neighbor's sewer.
If it turns out the neighbor's sewer is on our property and may interfere with where we place our addition I'll just go over to them, let them know our plans and offer to allow them to re-route their sewer (they pay 100%).
My question: Did this sound legit? Or should I lawyer up now?Is there something that I left out? I figure an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
Thanks for the help

