FOR LAND REGISTRY REP please

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

I would seriously consider buying a printer, as everything is becoming so web-focused.

In the meantime, your local library will do this download & print for you.

I get your point:(. I'm very non technically-minded and that would rather add another dimension of "Another darn machine to learn to use and have to keep working".

1. Are printers VERY VERY easy indeed to connect up to a computer and thence to use?

2. Are printers VERY VERY cheap (I'm talking around the £20-£30 mark as money that would be very reluctantly spent - as I don't need one for myself personally).

Fortunately, I have developed a friendly face/contact at the local library and she helps me with this sort of thing.:T

Land_Registry

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Thank you. Will do.

1. When you say about an "application form" is that a 3rd form I have to do or is it:
- one form FR1
- two forms DL

and that's that? That's that

2. When I fill in that DL form, then I presume I just put "x bit of paper sent already under separate cover" for that evidence I have sent up already with the initial letter the local Land Registry requested me to send (ie I've sent my letter by email - because I have pretty illegible handwriting, but very good typing skills). I've also sent photos of the land up by post and by email. It would be difficult for me to re-do sending the photos, because I've had to get a friend to deal with these for me anyway.
Any application should stand on it's own so if you want to apply then for registration I would suggest emailing again to query the return of the photos etc or to clarify what can be done with linking your application with the earlier email

3. I've been told that the neighbour that is trying to take some of my land has had their application for this forwarded onto the Land Registry office. Out of the two possible ways I can think of that she might be trying to claim my land (one temporarily for herself only and one permanently for future owners of her house), I need to know which one it is she is trying to claim my land under. I'm obviously entitled to know which of these two ways she is trying to do so. Is there a legal requirement on the Land Registry to tell me which of the two methods I am aware of she is trying to use to get it? I would add that enquiry to the second email as well to clarify things

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moneyistooshorttomention

Land_Registry_representative wrote: »

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Apologies. Meant to say that Naughty Neighbour has had her application forwarded on by Land Registry office to the LR solicitors.

I'm taking that as a hopeful sign. From all my reading to date she won't qualify under either way she might be trying to claim it, but I presume that the reason LR general office has forwarded this on is to check that fact out more closely from specialist legal people??

Do you know about whether there is a legal requirement to tell me which way she will be trying to claim my land? Obviously, I can ask under the Freedom of Information Act - but I would imagine there is a standard procedure to tell other "interested parties" automatically (ie so they can prepare their defence knowing exactly which thing they are having to prepare their defence against) - and this is the question I am asking.

Land_Registry

The procedures will vary depending on the circumstances - have a read of the Practice Guides 4 and 5 I referred you to earlier to understand who is notified in a given set of circumstances.

For example if the land is already registered then we would notify the registered owner but if it is unregistered then the procedure will have to differ.

Soot2006

The only bit I can help with

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

2. Are printers VERY VERY cheap (I'm talking around the £20-£30 mark as money that would be very reluctantly spent - as I don't need one for myself personally).

£26.99 + delivery here:
http://www.ebuyer.com/618740-canon-pixma-ip2850-inkjet-photo-printer-8745b008aa

Easy older type machine that will play nicely with most computers.

Hope you get this issue sorted, sounds like a nightmare! x

moneyistooshorttomention

Thanks Soot - appreciated:T

This isn't how I planned on my retirement being that's for sure - more like walking/cooking/various personal interests. If I want something to keep the braincells ticking over, then I should be able to find some low-cost course or other (though Open University courses have now gone way out of the reach of "yer ordinary person in the street").

Hopefully, this isn't going to take much more of my precious time and energy dealing with the little *expletive deleted*

moneyistooshorttomention

Have just been informed which type of "ownership" of my land Naughty Neighbour is trying to wrongfully obtain.

So that has clarified that issue and I know exactly what I am fighting now.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I get your point:(. I'm very non technically-minded and that would rather add another dimension of "Another darn machine to learn to use and have to keep working".

1. Are printers VERY VERY easy indeed to connect up to a computer and thence to use?

2. Are printers VERY VERY cheap (I'm talking around the £20-£30 mark as money that would be very reluctantly spent - as I don't need one for myself personally).

Fortunately, I have developed a friendly face/contact at the local library and she helps me with this sort of thing.:T

You say you don't need a printer, but in the course of your writing to the LR Rep, you stated that you have, "pretty illegible handwriting" so I'm not sure you're right!

I certainly couldn't do without mine, whether it's printing off OS maps and other info to use when walking, recipes, or maybe free tickets that would otherwise cost me £££.....or just normal business correspondence. There are times, as you are discovering, when only a printed response will do.

This sort of situation will only become more common. Expectations change.

My printer came courtesy of Freegle, so it cost nothing, and there's enough ink with it to take me into 2016.

Printers are not easy to keep happy if you are only an occasional user, because the ink dries up in the jets, but once you have one it'll probably be used. They are easy enough to set up if you have a modern operating system and can follow instructions, or the library may know a local computer nerd who'll help.

There are plenty of tech-savvy pensioners around now y'know!:rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

Hmm...I'll give it some thought. I knew a couple of suitable men (yep...I know...sexist...:o) who could have helped me before. Not made that sort of contact yet...men I know here so far come under the heading of workmen/friends husbands or aging dead broke hippies who don't even have a computer:rotfl:.

I know a "man who can" for a reasonable rate.

moneyistooshorttomention

Administrative query for Land Registry rep.

= I was reading today that these things can take a while to resolve.

So, in view of the age of the person concerned that is trying to claim my land, what actually happens to their claim if they reach the end of their allotted lifespan in the course of this? - ie if they die whilst their claim is still being processed.

Does their claim cease with them? or would it continue "in their absence" and be deemed to be being continued by their "estate" (or the next owner of the squatters house could just pick up the claim where this squatter left off)?

This because they are so old that I don't quite understand why they are actually doing this, as they are (to use my mothers words) "in Gods waiting room".

NB; I'm talking about the official claim itself, rather than any continuous length of "tenure" of my land by a squatter. I know that if the next owner of this squatters house was also that sort of person and decided to try this too then they would look to add the time this squatter has been on my land onto their own to try and extend the length of time they could be said to have done so - but my question is that I would imagine the actual official claim by current squatter would cease if that person ceased (ie died). So if a replacement squatter also tried to steal my land, they would have to start up a whole new claim for themselves and start the form-filling etc all over again from Square 1?