Thank you for watching this AFX Video Production! For more information regarding Title Searching please visit us at: www.titlesearch.com For more information regarding Investigations and Research please visit us at: www.afxsearch.com For more information regarding Car Titles please visit us at: www.cartitiles.com 0:00:02.590,0:00:05.100 So what is a property easement and how does it affect 0:00:05.100,0:00:09.880 real estate and property title this is Dave at titlesearch.com 0:00:09.880,0:00:13.780 an easement is a very specific type of property right it 0:00:13.780,0:00:18.990 allows use a property or maybe prevention of use of property but not 0:00:18.990,0:00:21.000 ownership of a parcel 0:00:21.000,0:00:24.510 there's three basic types of property easements 0:00:24.510,0:00:27.779 there's an easement in gross there's an easement appurtenant 0:00:27.779,0:00:31.750 and prescriptive easement so how does this work let's say that 0:00:31.750,0:00:36.930 this is the road and here's two pieces of real estate if you own this property 0:00:36.930,0:00:40.340 you have no way of getting to your parcel 0:00:40.340,0:00:46.120 because the road doesn't connect to that piece of real estate so what you have to do is 0:00:46.120,0:00:49.940 get an easement across this 0:00:49.940,0:00:53.320 parcel to get to your land locked property 0:00:53.320,0:00:56.329 in most counties it's required 0:00:56.329,0:01:01.520 that every legal parcel that is used for residential commercial use 0:01:01.520,0:01:05.430 have access to a public road so in order for this parcel 0:01:05.430,0:01:08.650 to be viable this easement has to exist as negotiated 0:01:08.650,0:01:12.799 with the owner of the parcel along the road so 0:01:12.799,0:01:16.740 if you have an easement across your property 0:01:16.740,0:01:21.979 that easement allows this user to use that part of the property for particular use 0:01:21.979,0:01:25.240 another common example of an easement is for utilities 0:01:25.240,0:01:28.860 utility lines may need to go across one property to get to another it 0:01:28.860,0:01:32.090 maybe power lines maybe sewer pipes for water pipes 0:01:32.090,0:01:36.310 even things like cable TV need an easement to get from one property 0:01:36.310,0:01:39.560 to another easements can be specified on a deed 0:01:39.560,0:01:43.360 it can be specified an easement document they can also accrue 0:01:43.360,0:01:47.049 from continued use so let's say for example 0:01:47.049,0:01:50.579 there's a path that goes across a property to get to a school where the 0:01:50.579,0:01:52.079 kids cut through every day 0:01:52.079,0:01:56.299 to get to school rather than going around the block if that path is used long 0:01:56.299,0:01:57.640 enough without 0:01:57.640,0:02:02.619 interruption it may become an easement just by continued use 0:02:02.619,0:02:06.380 that path different counties have different rules on how long has to take 0:02:06.380,0:02:10.410 it's one of the reasons why if you're driving by a downtown area and there's a 0:02:10.410,0:02:14.120 office building in there's public steps to go up to the building 0:02:14.120,0:02:17.540 once a year you may find that commercial property owner 0:02:17.540,0:02:21.739 put yellow tape across those stairs and they document it so people aren't using those 0:02:21.739,0:02:22.720 stairs everyday 0:02:22.720,0:02:25.920 that way a prescriptive easement is not created for 0:02:25.920,0:02:29.209 that property it's not typically part of a land record 0:02:29.209,0:02:33.280 to have easements you won't find them normally in deed books 0:02:33.280,0:02:37.160 or in lien books you may find them in the zoning office 0:02:37.160,0:02:41.110 you may find them in the Assessor's Office so make sure that if easements 0:02:41.110,0:02:43.310 are important thing you need to know about on a property 0:02:43.310,0:02:47.769 that you have the search done correctly to incorporate those into the report 0:02:47.769,0:02:51.430 if you have more questions about easements for how they affect real estate 0:02:51.430,0:02:55.819 we have two web sites you might be interested in one is called easementsearch.com 0:02:55.819,0:02:58.950 or our main website at titlesearch.com

• published: 20 Feb 2014
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