# Letter of Demand re: easement **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-of-demand-re-easement/992137 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [October 26, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-of-demand-re-easement/992137 "2023-10-26T17:36:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 51
### Author: ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123) #### Post date: [October 27, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-of-demand-re-easement/992137/51 "2023-10-27T03:35:02Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Consider the alternative. Here we have a series of absentee landowners who get little or no use out of their property on the one hand, and SC on the other. The land may be worth essentially nothing to the absentees (except, maybe, as a speculative investment, which is problematic on its own). By contrast, SC does actually get some use out of the land, but in order to get the best use out of it could really use a perfectly reasonable easement allowing them direct access from the county road. Seems like a good time to bring up the concept of “corner crossing”. It’s a bit of this thread, but on a much larger scale, and also a LOTTTT lesser impact. We are talking about walking over the corner of a property vs driving over the entire property. How can a private property owner restrict access to public land when you may not even touch that private property? I know it’s not apples to apples, but it should show you the issues with private land rights and how they might have a bit of overreach. > [@Corner Crossing - Large portions of US public land inaccessible to public](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corner-crossing-large-portions-of-us-public-land-inaccessible-to-public/975691): > > I’ve been reading about the corner crossing controversy for a couple years now and don’t think it’s been brought up here. I live in an area of the US that has this patchwork of public and private land. Before I knew of the controversy, I corner crossed thinking there must be nothing wrong with it. Little did I know that rich people that own the private land surrounding the public land begin to view that public land as their own private, and free, paradise. If it truly becomes illegal to corner c… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-of-demand-re-easement/992137)._