Comments on: Step 1: Buy house next to golf course

By: Mark D. White

Mark D. White — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:00:15 +0000

“Hey, look, a nuisance–I think I’ll go to it.”

By: mike

mike — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:15:25 +0000

Gasman said : The golf course did not purchase sufficient land surrounding it to act as buffer for the known hazard of golf balls leaving the field of play.

How about this: The homeowner did not purchase enough land surrounding his house to act as a buffer for the known hazard of golf balls leaving the nearby golfcourse……..

By: Melvin H.

Melvin H. — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:00:52 +0000

That argument sounds like someone buying a house close to a busy airport, thencomplaining about the noise. Caveat emptor—the buyer should know, or should have known, that before buying.

By: smart dude

smart dude — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:17:07 +0000

A common sense, common law judge.

By: gasman

gasman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:11:59 +0000

Just because patrons of the golf course routinely trespassed on the land that would become their home in the past, does not establish a perpetual right of the golf course to use their yard as an extension of the golf course.

The golf course is receiving economic benefit from the trespass; it did not have to purchase sufficient land surrounding it originally to act as buffer for the known hazard of golf balls leaving the field of play.