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i live in rural west tennessee and have two adjoining pieces of land. They are in a tennessee valley authority tract along kentucky lake (a platted tract of cabin sites). we are in the process of preparing one of these pieces for sale. the piece we are selling has our home on it and the remaining piece is undeveloped. the undeveloped piece is landlocked and we would like to grant ourselves an easement for ingress and egress and in addition would like to make an easement behind our house for the purpose of creating a larger backyard to enhance the lot size. the property line behind the house is irregular and comes too close to the house making the backyard too small. are there special considerations involved in assuring that someone doesn't build anything on the easement behind the house, or is it just a matter of writing easement restrictions into the deed? we had originally had it surveyed to modify the property line and then found out it was "illegal" to "subdivide" a tva platted tract. however we have discovered that easements are no problem.
when we had the property surveyed for the line modification, we discovered that the county now requires a 25' setback for right of way. when they took that 25' we lost approx. 1/4 acre. we front a county maintained road. our surveyor tells me that this is not legal and that he can show me recent legal decisions favoring the property owner in cases that have challanged this "land grab". our deed gives us property ownership to the middle of the road. our surveyor works the surrounding 4 or 5 couties and tells me that our county (henry) is the only county he does business in that does this. any thoughts on this matter?
thanks for your time and help.
when we had the property surveyed for the line modification, we discovered that the county now requires a 25' setback for right of way. when they took that 25' we lost approx. 1/4 acre. we front a county maintained road. our surveyor tells me that this is not legal and that he can show me recent legal decisions favoring the property owner in cases that have challanged this "land grab". our deed gives us property ownership to the middle of the road. our surveyor works the surrounding 4 or 5 couties and tells me that our county (henry) is the only county he does business in that does this. any thoughts on this matter?
thanks for your time and help.