[FlDebra]

Look through the paperwork from when you bought the property. Hopefully someone got property title insurance. We recently were very grateful that we had purchased this in a long line of closing items years ago. After the death of a neighbor and his property's sale, a new surveying company was trying to take away about 10-20 feet of our property, which would have included driveway access to our garage! We called the attorney that did the closing and they got right on it, sending a letter letting them know we would be going with our own survey and they would take it to court. This all would cost us nothing as we had the insurance. The other property owner/real estate company immediately called the surveryors back out and miraculously they found their error and the original property line. Don't back down! If your survery shows the property to be yours -- then fight for it. If you did not have the insurance, then you may have to enlist the aid of a property attorney -- but it is worth it to have an expert on your side.

Also -- a metal detector may be useful in finding the original property line markers. The real estate agent had told us the markers were probably gone or covered too deeply. But my husband found them with the metal detector.