[ripdog]

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Yesterday. He is in the process of subdividing his lot and has discovered that he has no valid ingress/egress easement. So he has his attorney throw together an Easement and Joint Maintenance Agreement. He handed it to me on Friday, I gave him comments on on Sunday. He flips out and threatens to sue if I don't sign by Monday. Hmmm...why is he pushing so hard? I check out public records on his property and find that he has taken out a $460,000 loan and used two of his properties for collateral, and the loan matures in less than 6 months. My property may or may not need an easement, but I won't run into a problem with it until I want to sell.

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I'm confused. Why would you need an easement? And on what grounds is he threatening to sue you? You don't have to agree to an easement if you dont want to. However, if he has been passing through your land for long enough without you protesting, an easement can become implied.

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I live on a private dead end street and own the back half of it, which is unpaved. A condominium owns the front half of the street, which is paved. My dickhead neighbor has run into a problem with his subdivide. The surveyor that was doing his short plat referenced a 1917 Quit Claim Deed as his easement, but retired in the middle of the job. The new guy looked up that reference and determined that it is not an easement. He won't stamp the short plat until this issue is taken care of. Now dickhead is trying to convince me that I have the same problem, but I don't. The easement for my access has been recorded twice, the first time was in 1978, so I am way past the statute of limitations here. I think the rest of this is explained in my response to Dynasty. I am (maybe) entering into an agreement with the condos for maintenance and repair of the easement strip, the neighbor gets the easement recorded and I benefit from that by having my easement clarified. I am so sick of this...