Around here you are 100 percent responsible. Don't you have Registries in Tenn? Aren't there recording laws? I don't understand the problem?

I have never seen an easement for utilities on a town or county road.

In Maine they don't have to get an easement in your scenario to the best of my knowledge. I would be willing to bet there was a law court case on the ...

Very well put and I agree 100 percent.

I know people who make six digit net incomes doing them, or at least they did before the housing collapse.