Anyone ever had a problem getting electricity to a property?

[Shortbow]

I am just curious if any of you have ever found yourself trying to get electricity to a property but you have to get permission from a neighboring property to cross this land thus creating an electric easement. How did you compensate the other land owner? What were the specifics as far as, did you have to pay to clear out the easement etc.....? Thanks.

[elkbowhunter]

Hope that works out for you. I know easements can be a stickler. Did you buy property with no utility access?

[Sharecropper]

I'm in the middle of that right now . . . signed and notarized two easement grants and one erosion agreement and sent them a check today . . . an easement already existed along the road so they are going to run the underground cable along the easement to my land and then to my bldg. site . . .

[Sharecropper]

I am in the middle of that right now . . . today I signed and got notarized 2 easement grants for my land and an erosion agreement and sent those plus a check . . . there was an existing roadside easement so they are going to run the underground line along the easement to my land and then to the site . . . good luck

[Keith]

A friend at work just went through this. I believe he paid his neighbor $2500+ to tie onto the neighbor's power pole and trench to his new home site. He's not at work today, but I'll try to remember to get the details when I see him.

[kfd82]

I went through it 2 years ago. Didn't have to pay my neighbor anything, which was surprising.

[TD2000]

When we electric lines two years ago, the electric company measured from the nearest pole to determine cost. Then they absorbed the cost to run it from the next nearest site as the neighbor would not allow it to be run from the closest site.

[Shortbow]

Thanks guys.