If I may hijack this thread, I also have an easement question. The question is who can benefit from an easement. In this particular case, I owned a house with an easement covering the back ten feet of the lot for utility purposes (SDGE and the county for possible future electrical and/or sewer uses and written specifically in that way). My neighbor at the time used this strip for access to her yard but after many years of gophers and erosion the strip became pretty much impassable. So my neighbor came to me and demanded that I build a retaining wall and back fill so that she could park her pickup in her back yard. She said that an easement is an easement and I was legally responsible for keeping it in useable condition for anyone ( she stated “I’m a realtor so I know”). I countered that the easement was only for utility companies and that she could take a flying leap. She kept up with it for about a year, demanding that I fix it and threatening to sue me to force repairs. She even went behind my back to my insurance company to get them to fix it. They also told her to where she could stick her claim…
Anyway, while I think she had no claim, was I correct? Are easements specific to what is written in the title (or wherever it is written)? Or was she correct in saying that I had a legal obligation to keep it passable for any and all people who want to use it.
It does not really matter now, as I sold the house a few years back, but I am sure that she was pestering the new owners about it as soon as they moved in.
