oucivileng
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MD
I live in an old row home in an old city in Maryland. My property borders the street only on one side where the house is built. There is a 4 foot wide breezeway tunnel along the side of the house and underneath part of the upstairs bedrooms, but aside from that, the entire front of the property and adjacent properties are brick structures. I currently have a parking area on my property way in the back that I access by pulling through the driveway of a building around the corner on a side street, and passing through their rear parking lot. I currently pay the owner a monthly fee to basically rent a parking space from that lot so that I can pass through it to get to my property. I don't have an actual easement and the company that manages the property through which I've obtained parking access is unwilling to work with me on a contract (not even for 1 or 2 years). They won't even let the other property owner know that I would be interested in negotiating some sort of permanent access.
This is the only possible way that a vehicle could access my property because of other existing structures and terrain. Is my property technically landlocked since the only bordering roadway is entirely blocked by the houses that have been there for 150+years? Is the owner of the other property required to allow me to pull my car through? I'm not looking to screw over the other property owner or anything by forcing some sort of easement, I just don't trust their property manager. They could easily decide to triple the amount I have to pay them for access and there would be nothing I could do about it because they could just rent out my "driveway" as a parking space for somebody else. All I want is some leverage to start negotiating a contract of some sort to protect myself and keep everybody on good terms.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks!
I live in an old row home in an old city in Maryland. My property borders the street only on one side where the house is built. There is a 4 foot wide breezeway tunnel along the side of the house and underneath part of the upstairs bedrooms, but aside from that, the entire front of the property and adjacent properties are brick structures. I currently have a parking area on my property way in the back that I access by pulling through the driveway of a building around the corner on a side street, and passing through their rear parking lot. I currently pay the owner a monthly fee to basically rent a parking space from that lot so that I can pass through it to get to my property. I don't have an actual easement and the company that manages the property through which I've obtained parking access is unwilling to work with me on a contract (not even for 1 or 2 years). They won't even let the other property owner know that I would be interested in negotiating some sort of permanent access.
This is the only possible way that a vehicle could access my property because of other existing structures and terrain. Is my property technically landlocked since the only bordering roadway is entirely blocked by the houses that have been there for 150+years? Is the owner of the other property required to allow me to pull my car through? I'm not looking to screw over the other property owner or anything by forcing some sort of easement, I just don't trust their property manager. They could easily decide to triple the amount I have to pay them for access and there would be nothing I could do about it because they could just rent out my "driveway" as a parking space for somebody else. All I want is some leverage to start negotiating a contract of some sort to protect myself and keep everybody on good terms.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks!