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Here is perhaps a better image. I really like how tucked back in and private the property is. Maybe I'm trying to find faults now, but at the same time; not box myself into a problem.
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Yes, this property has an easement across the front, but its right down the property line.
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BTW, we have looked at and scouted several properties over the last 3 or 4 years, and they all had some real issues to over come. Seems all the quality properties, people aren't selling, or have already broke up into 2 acre pieces.
ning
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There's an easement to one house going down the side of my property - right at the edge - and even that I find undesireable. My wife is always remarking about how neighbor lady tears down the driveway... we lost a cat 20 years ago on that driveway - got hit - there's now a cat-proof fence + radio fence keeping our cats in so I'm not so concerned about that so much. The lady does drive what seems fast, but it's probably really only 25, it just looks fast on a single-lane road.
Maintenance of the lane isn't my concern because I rarely use the road - part of it leads to the road to my barn, but I didn't care when the driveway was rutted like crazy when we first moved here because I drive to the barn at most once every couple of weeks with my tractor (I can get to the barn more easily without that road from the rest of the land). Previous owner to the current neighbors paved the bad part; I declined to help pay because - his driveway, his maintenance, ruts don't faze my 4wd truck (didn't have the tractor then). Current owner didn't like that I was putting a fence along the road (easement) despite the fact that the fence was on the edge of the easement and any reasonable person wouldn't have a problem driving by it - his wife was made nervous by the t-posts I'd put up to hold a mason's line to mark it originally. I informed him that the hill drop-off where the fence was was unstable and he couldn't drive within two feet of that fenceline already - it was just a visual thing - and his easement didn't cover that spot, so tough. I did remove a couple trees on the other side of the road to make them more comfortable, though not all of the ones he wanted cut. She obviously got used to the real fence though given her speed though; no complaints since the fence went up.
I'd rather not have someone drive by my house at all (this easement gets within 145' of my front door and it's more than close enough!), and positively would not buy a property with an easement through usable land. I put in a fence around my place, and I'd have to fence along both sides of the easement - and open two gates to get from one side to the other? $%#!@ that.
mayyyyyybe if I had 640 acres, but still a no if it goes through the nicest part of the land.
My assumption is that at best you're going to end up disliking anyone who uses that easement regularly, and possibly hating them if they make a fuss or a mess out of the easement - and if you actually care about the condition of the road, good luck getting them to do their part of upkeep.
Maintenance of the lane isn't my concern because I rarely use the road - part of it leads to the road to my barn, but I didn't care when the driveway was rutted like crazy when we first moved here because I drive to the barn at most once every couple of weeks with my tractor (I can get to the barn more easily without that road from the rest of the land). Previous owner to the current neighbors paved the bad part; I declined to help pay because - his driveway, his maintenance, ruts don't faze my 4wd truck (didn't have the tractor then). Current owner didn't like that I was putting a fence along the road (easement) despite the fact that the fence was on the edge of the easement and any reasonable person wouldn't have a problem driving by it - his wife was made nervous by the t-posts I'd put up to hold a mason's line to mark it originally. I informed him that the hill drop-off where the fence was was unstable and he couldn't drive within two feet of that fenceline already - it was just a visual thing - and his easement didn't cover that spot, so tough. I did remove a couple trees on the other side of the road to make them more comfortable, though not all of the ones he wanted cut. She obviously got used to the real fence though given her speed though; no complaints since the fence went up.
I'd rather not have someone drive by my house at all (this easement gets within 145' of my front door and it's more than close enough!), and positively would not buy a property with an easement through usable land. I put in a fence around my place, and I'd have to fence along both sides of the easement - and open two gates to get from one side to the other? $%#!@ that.
mayyyyyybe if I had 640 acres, but still a no if it goes through the nicest part of the land.
My assumption is that at best you're going to end up disliking anyone who uses that easement regularly, and possibly hating them if they make a fuss or a mess out of the easement - and if you actually care about the condition of the road, good luck getting them to do their part of upkeep.
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paulsharvey
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If it's only an easement to my own back 3.3, and a foreign owned 0.7; that would probably be a non-issue; what kinda worries me, if that 200 acres of forestry Also has access easement, and their haul road is 50 ft from the house, that Would be an issue. Will justify additional research on who/what properties have the access.
Another issue would be, if that forestry property does hunting leases, which most do, if that access is transferable to all their club members.
Another issue would be, if that forestry property does hunting leases, which most do, if that access is transferable to all their club members.
I know that, and it must be getting frustrating. Yet thinking of how long you plan to live there might put things in a different perspective. I am fortunate enough not to have neighbors within 1/2 mile... the abutters on all 4 sides don't live in the land and have no desire to sell.
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foreign owned: right now. tomorrow? someone in a third-hand yurt.
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The undesirability of an access to me would depend entirely how it was written and recorded. Some easements are worded very strictly as too what who and how they can be accessed and if gates can or can't be put up. Also the width is usually listed sometimes not.
A 50 foot easement for property owners and access for them and authorized people is one thing and a 100 foot wide easement for public access are completely different.
A 50 foot easement for property owners and access for them and authorized people is one thing and a 100 foot wide easement for public access are completely different.