Near to exchange we’ve received a copy of a solicitors letter about a boundary dispute 5 years ago with a NDN. They accused our vendor of trying to pinch a bit of their land with his fence, he asserted he hadn’t and that they’d destroyed his plants and some shared areas with sledgehammers doing work on their side. A surveyor was employed by the NDN, the solicitor on vendors side ended up proving the vendor was in the right. Apparently they then withdrew their assertion. There the trail goes cold and he is saying no further disputes or conflicts.
It’s a small road of a handful of houses, this is the attached side (one half of a semi).
We’ve driven past and pretty sure the vendor isn’t living there (his mail is also going to a different place) although he asserts he is.
He’s in his 70s and a professional and seems quite mild mannered, lived there 30 years. They are a big family, multiple cars and vans.
I’m nervous that such a big dispute might have left problems. And spidey senses that these might be nightmare neighbours.
What would you want to see? Or would you walk away.