I’ve been on both sides of the deeded ROW situation and they always go south if you own the property long enough. Reasons deeded ROW’s are not ideal for me:

1) reduced resale value (Albeit at a lower buy in but still reducing the number of potential buyers by 50% or more)
2) lower timber values because logging companies hate dealing with the hassle of multiple land owners
3) not being able to tell somebody not to drive thru your property in the middle of the rut or the middle of the night
4) can’t control who owns the property in the future
5) Road maintenance for twice the vehicle travel
6) Hard to keep up with everybody coming and going - owner, leasee, lessor, friend, family, poacher, trespasser, etc
7) they will shoot deer off your property, if they won’t their loggers will
8) they will catch fish out of your pond
9) they will steal your cameras
10) they will steal your stands
Etc etc etc

If you share deeded access and it hasn’t happened to you.....yet. Consider yourself lucky and blessed. All that changes if the other land owner ever sells and you aren’t the buyer.


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