Driveway or easement?

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 Tbone95 wrote:

...Easements transfer here, it’s illegal to sell landlocked property...

This is the key element.  Every state has land access laws, and the ownership of land has provisio for access REGARDLESS of wether there is a formal easement, or not, so the sensible action is to set forth the easement in writing, so there's no question.

An easement is 'blanket permission' to cross property. An easement can be (and usually is) committed to people OTHER than the person OTHER than the person you sell to... i.e. a utility company...  and becomes part of the property, they're durable... once you commit the easement, you cannot recind it, it can only be recinded by whomever it is granted... and usually they don't.

What WILL inevitably occur, is that BOTH a driveway 
AND an easement will appear- the driveway for access, and the easement 
for any utilities or services.  That includes fixed utilities 
(electricity, water, communications, etc) and public services (police, 
fire, ambulance, mail).  Even if you sell it just for purpose of 
hunting, that will eventually change.
The wise choice, if you're selling, is to survey it all out, establish the driveway, and leave the buyer to commit their easements.  This first gives them unfettered access to the property, second gives them a path for all easements WITHOUT need for crossing your property, and finally, leaves you free of any liabilities to them.

But regardless of HOW you do it, make certain you establish any future easements on the property you SELL... that YOUR property will need.   If your electrical power, telephony, etc., passes through that parcel, or you have a fenceline access or pasture, or flowage, that needs to be committed to the property by you before you sell.

Is there any place on YOUR property where you do any aerial spraying, or other low flight?  If so YOU need to include in the sale an Avigation Easement... which is an easement that restricts elevation of anything which would restrict approach, departure, or maneuvering.

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