Slolutions for a land locked property.

[flippinout]

If you own a piece of land and there is no way to get to it except across neighboring properties, you need to first check your deed for any "easements" that may have passed with the deed.

If there are no easements, you need to contact a good real estate lawyer and get his advice on how to proceed.

Once application is made to obtain an easement, the court takes into consideration many factors such as, would you need vehicular access to the property, or would on foot access be sufficient.

They would also consider how much of a hardship not getting an easement would be on you, and how hard having an easement across neighboring properties would be on your neighbors.

The court would also look into why this property became landlocked in the first place.

If the court grants an easement, you would be responsible for maintaining a roadway etc, and for whatever compensation would be due to your neighbors.

[flip_it_fast]

This actually happened to my grandmother. She owned a small piece of property up on top of a hill and all of the land surrouning the property got bought up. She ended up not having any access to her property. It wasn't a big concern for her though as she had no use for the property. She didn't file for any right aways in court or anything. She ended up just selling the property to one of the people who had bought land next to the piece she owned.

[badmomma]

I lived on a piece of property that was land locked. I could get to it however because I had good neighbors.

I could cross their property to get off if I was walking. I could drive my car up the same road as they used. We both had access because the road itself belonged to a coal company who held easement rights.

The hardest thing to deal with was the equipment the occasionally had to bring up the road to take care of sink holes and other issues.