Originally Posted by jbatey1
Originally Posted by 2Dogs
Originally Posted by Antelope08
Originally Posted by 2Dogs
Several times.


How hard or was it impossible to get access from an adjacent landowner? It will basically be my wife and I on the property, might try to farm a little, hunt mostly......


Some, we only wanted a easement to get the timber out and then sold it to hunters as we bought it without a ROW. Some we got deeded ROW pretty easy , some, folks wouldn't cooperate , but in the end that didn't matter . In Alabama you can petition the court and be granted one through the court process but that can be a long and expensive process. Way back in these mountains landowners never had deeded ROWs , that has only become an issue last 30 years or so when "out of towners" started buy hunting land. You gotta dance slow with hillbillies , you don't come in and tell them right from the start you're gonna grant me a ROW or I'm takin' you to court.



How do the powers at be decide what route someone would have in terms of the access?

Say a property is dead center of 2 or 3 other tracts up here in the mountains, do they just find the shortest route? How do they decide whether access will be from the top of a mountain/ bottom of a mountain or go based off of which one the owner wants to pursue or what?


I believe the criteria is closest and most accessible to a public road. Closest does not always mean most accessible in the mountains.



"Why do you ask"?

Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.