How To Use A Deed Covenant To Protect Your Home's View

What is a deed covenant and how can it protect my view?

A deed covenant is a restriction or agreement that's put into a written document that has been recorded at the county recorder's office that either gives rights or restricts rights with respect to one or more particular pieces of real property. Once those are recorded, and if it's done properly so that it's in what we call the chain of title, you can then enforce those rights that are contained in that deed covenant. The way you're going to enforce them, of course, is first communicating to the neighbor, and if that isn't sufficient then you're going to have to go to court and get a court's assistance with a court order to enforce those rights.