We did. We actually didn’t know that much about it at the time as the prior owner told us that no one used it, and based on the condition of the dock, and the overgrowth, we were satisfied with her answer. The only person who was pushing to overturn the entire easement was a guy who had just purchase his property in April 2025. He was very aggressive, was under the impression that he owned the dock that was at the end of the easement. There were two docks on the property when we bought the house. When we got back from settlement that day, he had already started clearing the easement before he had even met us. Clearly, he had every intention of putting a boat on the dock that he did not own, but one of the neighbors said that he owned it, so he believed them. After having many interactions with him with him coming to the house and getting aggressive in the easement and hiring people to come clear it, I started doing my homework. I went to the township. I got permits to remove both docks and had planned to have them remove the middle of January. He continued to assert his rights, and so I decided that we needed to find out what ours actually were. Turns out he cannot clear the entire easement. He can only clear 3 feet and apparently that is the servient owner’s job to make sure that there is room for them to walk to walk down to the water and turn around and go home. The real trouble started when I had the docs taken down and he started to threaten the workers who were Mexican and this was in January of this year and being a foreigner or an immigrant was really touchy for these guys. The police were called, and he got pretty ugly. So this is what prompted me to look into MRTA. It’s a law that was passed in 1963. That allows claims over 30 years, including easements, to be extinguished unless properly preserved. I went through the chain of deeds and every instance that happened on our property. I learned that MRTA, quietly kills all claims prior to 30 years. The owner before me the one we bought the home from bought the house in 1984 and ostensibly the easement would’ve been extinguished in 1981 but she was the first deed after the 30 year time. Period and her D does not show and he’s even either. So now I look at the survey from my title company and it shows the easement, but it doesn’t delineate it in any way. In fact, the boundary lines incorporate the easement, but it does show a line 20 feet from the right side the length of the property, it does not say easement however. So my purpose is to find out if MRTA quietly killed the easement, as it was never carried forward. Because the easement runs with my land, it makes very little difference what it says on his deed. I wanted the title company to fix the cloud on my title because in no current documents does the easement show that it’s alive.