 DraimanLet me see those devil horns in the sky
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Re: Easements question said by sk1939:The house I grew up in was strange in that sense, it had literally no easements. The telephone poles both skipped my house and the one next to me. When the county went to put in sidewalks (unincorporated) they again stopped at the house before mine. There were a few built around the same time, and one built in 1910 a street over or two that have the same thing.
If you had electric, water, or any other city services they had easement that's just how it works. They own the line to your property and the rights to maintain it.
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Any of my friends homes that has a sump pump in it, has water problems. It may be possible for someone to have a sump pump without ever having had a water problem, but I've never met an individual that set up a pump that didn't have a pre-existing water problem.
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said by Dodge:said by fluffybunny :Think about properties in CT not NJ. NJ is terrible to live in.
I would go with #2 without easements. easements are ok until they get used (which WILL happen) and then you can end up with bulldozers and large trucks ripping through your property. sure they can be nice about it but they dont HAVE to be (and in NJ in an emergency i doubt they would care to even bother asking you -- just drive that caterpillar through the easement followed by two dump trucks and do the job).
And what makes CT better than NJ? I'm in Connecticut, with relatives in both this state and New Jersey. I'd love to know the answer as well.
Both states are diverse. There doesn't seem to be a major pro or con to either imo.
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said by pandora:Any of my friends homes that has a sump pump in it, has water problems. It may be possible for someone to have a sump pump without ever having had a water problem, but I've never met an individual that set up a pump that didn't have a pre-existing water problem.
Where I live every house I know of has a sump pump. Here that does not imply water problems, it is just the standard construction practice. It may be driven by local building codes, but I am not sure about that. Clearly this varies by area. |
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said by Draiman:said by sk1939:The house I grew up in was strange in that sense, it had literally no easements. The telephone poles both skipped my house and the one next to me. When the county went to put in sidewalks (unincorporated) they again stopped at the house before mine. There were a few built around the same time, and one built in 1910 a street over or two that have the same thing.
If you had electric, water, or any other city services they had easement that's just how it works. They own the line to your property and the rights to maintain it. Homeowner owns the line up to the street (found that when we had a tree root issue in the cast iron drain line), and electrics up to the masthead (above ground). I don't know about water an NG though admittedly. |
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said by unknvoip:Where I live every house I know of has a sump pump. Here that does not imply water problems, it is just the standard construction practice. It may be driven by local building codes, but I am not sure about that. Clearly this varies by area.
Interesting, thanks.
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said by unknvoip:said by pandora:Any of my friends homes that has a sump pump in it, has water problems. It may be possible for someone to have a sump pump without ever having had a water problem, but I've never met an individual that set up a pump that didn't have a pre-existing water problem.
Where I live every house I know of has a sump pump. Here that does not imply water problems, it is just the standard construction practice. It may be driven by local building codes, but I am not sure about that. Clearly this varies by area. +1 -- Every house my parents had owned had had a sump pump. The first house I bought didn't and had a flooded basement within a year (but that was a heavy rain/combined storm-sanitary sewer issue). All of the houses I've owned since have had sump pumps and at least partially finished basements with no water issues at all. The pump in the house I'm now in runs VERY occasionally, the pit rarely even gets water in it. |
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jeb9876
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It is just wishful thinking that house prices in New Jersey have not gone down from the peak,even within reasonable commuting distance to New York.
Hightstown, right down the road from Englishtown, has just completed a reassessment because of property value drops from the last reassessment in 2008.
"The reassessment resulted in an average 17 percent decrease in values, Theokas said.
About half of the borough’s properties were devalued by 20 percent or more, he said."
»www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013···met.html
Just because many homeowners refuse to acknowledge reality doesn't mean that the value of their houses haven't dropped. |
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jeb9876
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I did some reading about drainage easements in Monmouth County. Seems to be quite commonplace.
That 20 foot drainage easement means you have a storm sewer pipe running through the edge of your property.
Unless that pipe collapses the local township/borough will never want to access it on your property.
There is an Englishtown Borough Council meeting from 2004 in which they allow a family to build a shed on the drainage easement. The homeowners had to pay $1.00.
»www.englishtownnj.com/minutes/041404.htm |
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said by jeb9876:It is just wishful thinking that house prices in New Jersey have not gone down from the peak,even within reasonable commuting distance to New York.
Hightstown, right down the road from Englishtown, has just completed a reassessment because of property value drops from the last reassessment in 2008.
"The reassessment resulted in an average 17 percent decrease in values, Theokas said.
About half of the borough’s properties were devalued by 20 percent or more, he said."
»www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013···met.html
Just because many homeowners refuse to acknowledge reality doesn't mean that the value of their houses haven't dropped.
Sorry to say but Hightstown is not a good comparison to Marlboro or Manalapan areas. School ratings are worse, taxes are somehow higher but the median income is below NJ average let alone Marlboro.
There is NJ and there is NJ. Every state has good areas and bad areas, grasping at an area that actually experienced decline in house prices does not create a good picture of the entire state. |
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Hightstown? Ha, ha. No one wants to live there. |
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