In this video, I stroll around my property, which I bought on a 15 year, guaranteed, VA Home Loan, in 2003 for $69,000, list price, from Gertrude Bartlett and her daughter, Martha Ripley. In 2004, I refinanced, and paid off $39,000 of the loan, and am now in the 7th year of my second, 15 year, VA home loan.
When the snow melted in 2003, I found that there were no boundary markers, but the map filed in Machias by the surveyor, years ago, clearly marked my property boundary as going up along the edge of Bartlett Lane for 888 feet in a straight line,
I've been told by Jim Caron, who mows Martha Ripley's lawn, that Gertrude Bartlett went to her grandfather when he was on his death bed, and got a special grant to this piece of land, and that the rest of his land was left to a gaggle of Bartlett family members. Apparently, Gertrude Bartlett and Martha Ripley used the last 30 feet of Bartlett Lane where it hits Maple Street for many years without securing a right of way, and the boundary marker was taken out or disappeared during this controversial period.
Joy Gillis signed a right of way over to her cousins, for the last 30 feet of Bartlett Lane, because that was included, with a map, of my property when the lawyers registered it in Machias as part of my VA Home Loan in 2003.
Fred Gillis has been renting it out to an employee who used to work in his mill across the street, and did not inform her for many years as to where the property line was. I read in the Bangor Daily News, last year, that his wife, Joy Gillis, was arrested and convicted in federal court in Bangor for embezzling $5,000 from the US Postal Service and put on 3 years probation, since she was able to repay the stolen money. She was under pressure because her husband's wood mill was going through bankruptcy.
As I strolled around my property, when I identified a boundary marker still there, trying to figure out why the others were missing, and who had removed them, the tenants from next door came out to talk to me.
I asked them to remove the junked truck from my land, and told them they had a week to do it. This discussion has occurred in years past, and one time, the tenant punched me in the belly with a five foot pipe, thinking I'd hit her back. BUT I DON'T HIT WOMEN, nor do I hit men, for that matter.
I hope they move the junked truck, but like I told them in this video, I don't mind if they mow the grass, if their kids play on it, or if dogs run on it. Me, and mortgage company, and the person who will buy this land from me do not want their junked trucks on my land.