3 ms·

No, I don't know how easements work. So, you need to sign a reciprocity agreement with the road owner before they let you use their road for free? What preven

by lottin 4y ago

No, I don't know how easements work. So, you need to sign a reciprocity agreement with the road owner before they let you use their road for free? What prevents road owners from charging extortionate fees to people who don't own roads themselves?

landemva 4y ago
The easements stay with the land. A land purchaser who uses a competent title search firm will find these easements filed many years ago with county clerk and recorder. Literally it gets set up once. The easements are reciprocal to everyone else in the town. An interesting thing with this is that if a giant company wants to drive around, take pictures of everything, and then monetize those pictures (G's street view), they would be trespassing. Nobody (but my neighbors, rarely and just for short time) parks cars in front of my house because it is private property. No need to ask a government road owner to pass ordinance to restrict parking of RVs, and put up no parking signs, and have police write tickets ... it's private property and a call to towing company gets it removed from my property. In practice, everybody is polite and friendly.
- lottin 4y ago
  So the roads are privately-owned and the owners can charge road users anything they want. Such a system is only in the interest of the road owners, since they have monopoly power. Everybody else loses.
  - landemva 4y ago
    Nobody but Google monetizing street view is losing, or even grumbling about any problems. Everyone in town has reciprocal easement to/from all the other landowners to use the strip of private property that looks like a road. I am curious how anyone other than maybe Google street view is losing. Who do you think is losing? Who is there to charge, as the people using the roads live there and have the easement for use. A huge positive is that I don't need a stupid license plate or even a license to travel around in a car or on my dirt bike. It's private property and the government rules only apply on government roads.
    - lottin 4y ago
      Everybody loses because there aren't multiple road networks competing to provide access to the same places. There is just one network, right? This means the it's a monopolistic market, and in a monopolistic market everybody loses except the monopolist. In a small town privately-owned roads can work because there aren't many outsiders using the roads, therefore the road owners are themselves the main road users, and so they may have the right incentives to do adequate road maintenance, and they don't charge anything because they have a reciprocal agreement, but a large road network that is privately owned would lead to a "monopoly equilibrium" where roads would be poorly maintained and road users would be charged high fees.

by lottin 4y ago

landemva 4y ago

The easements stay with the land. A land purchaser who uses a competent title search firm will find these easements filed many years ago with county clerk and recorder. Literally it gets set up once. The easements are reciprocal to everyone else in the town. An interesting thing with this is that if a giant company wants to drive around, take pictures of everything, and then monetize those pictures (G's street view), they would be trespassing. Nobody (but my neighbors, rarely and just for short time) parks cars in front of my house because it is private property. No need to ask a government road owner to pass ordinance to restrict parking of RVs, and put up no parking signs, and have police write tickets ... it's private property and a call to towing company gets it removed from my property. In practice, everybody is polite and friendly.

lottin 4y ago
So the roads are privately-owned and the owners can charge road users anything they want. Such a system is only in the interest of the road owners, since they have monopoly power. Everybody else loses.
- landemva 4y ago
  Nobody but Google monetizing street view is losing, or even grumbling about any problems. Everyone in town has reciprocal easement to/from all the other landowners to use the strip of private property that looks like a road. I am curious how anyone other than maybe Google street view is losing. Who do you think is losing? Who is there to charge, as the people using the roads live there and have the easement for use. A huge positive is that I don't need a stupid license plate or even a license to travel around in a car or on my dirt bike. It's private property and the government rules only apply on government roads.
  - lottin 4y ago
    Everybody loses because there aren't multiple road networks competing to provide access to the same places. There is just one network, right? This means the it's a monopolistic market, and in a monopolistic market everybody loses except the monopolist. In a small town privately-owned roads can work because there aren't many outsiders using the roads, therefore the road owners are themselves the main road users, and so they may have the right incentives to do adequate road maintenance, and they don't charge anything because they have a reciprocal agreement, but a large road network that is privately owned would lead to a "monopoly equilibrium" where roads would be poorly maintained and road users would be charged high fees.