road easment for house with no proper access to street

[Leah Klint]

We bought a house at a tax auction that has no proper access to the road.  The owner of the house diagonally located owns the property on the other side of the house so our road access is really his driveway, essentially.  What is the best way to solidify an easement or access to the property from what is essentially a private road?

[Shahriar Khan]

Given driveway was being used by the previous owner .. i would do the following 

1) Do a title search on both the properties via a title company to look up any easement ect that is available . If there is an existing one then great if not then do the following (cost 300-400)

2) Contact a Real Estate Attorney to draft a note for other party requesting easement by necessity. This should work (cost around 1000-1550) . If other owner agree then have your attorney draft an unlimited easement and if they dont then do the following 

3) Litigation (less then 20K) and highly likely that you will win

 Wish you the best.