East Texas Landlock Easement Right of way

[raymond.todd]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Hawkins Texas,

I have a land owner that is landlocked and has requested an easement (about .6 acres) along with rites to have water and power run across my land. We have offered to let him do this for $3500....he countered with $1100 I think and said that we wanted too much. I just wanted to see if that is the case? I want to do what's right for this gentlemen but I also don't want to just give it away. I don't know what's legal or not in something like this. Thanks!

 

[Zigner]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Hawkins Texas,

I have a land owner that is landlocked and has requested an easement (about .6 acres) along with rites to have water and power run across my land. We have offered to let him do this for $3500....he countered with $1100 I think and said that we wanted too much. I just wanted to see if that is the case? I want to do what's right for this gentlemen but I also don't want to just give it away. I don't know what's legal or not in something like this. Thanks!

Yours is not a legal question, there is no way we can determine that value of the easement for you.

 

[FarmerJ]

so why not just sell to him what your county says one must have in order for say emergency vehicles to get in etc ( so if county has defined how wide a so called flag pole driveway must be like say 50 ft for example then that would be the width to sell) If he owned his so called access then he can run water and electric on land he would own, and he can pay all the cost related to buying it from you as well as paying you something for it. ( A attorney should be able to advise you as to how this would be done and what the cost would be (again your neighbor can pay it ) See this way if his water line leaked or froze and had to be dug up , if its on his own land your property would not have to be touched. With a driveway he owned if he damaged it then boo hoo he has to live with a rutted gravel driveway or pay to have more brought in & grade it. if he owned it you would not have to be concerned if he over burdened it , or anyone speeding , if you had animals / livestock fenced in you would not have to be bothered every time he left a gate open. See most people when they granted easements often don't have a well written one and one neighbor from hell is all it takes to make it miserable for the owner of the land they use to access their own land. SO rather than getting into a huge hassle with lots of dickering and bickering it may just be cleaner to sell a strip and if he were to attempt to take you to court to ask the court to give him access over your land if you formally offered to sell to him a strip of land at a reasonable price and you show the court that you had offered in writing to sell a strip to him I cant see the court just giving him access over your land when he had the chance to buy enough from you to own his access. ( suing you for access wont be cheap either and last some day it likely would help your property sell a lot easier if it didn't have a written easement to a neighbor since some buyers would not be interested in buying something that they didn't have full control of.