Advantages and Disadvantages of a Privately Owned Road

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  realfancyman on 07/03/2017 - 21:21

  What if the road gets wrecked somehow and the owner decides not to fix it?

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  mshanann on 07/03/2017 - 21:58

  +1

  Who owns the road? Do you have a share or easement?

  Where do the utilities run (like water/sewerage/telecommunications) and what happens if any houses on that road have issues with such utilities (who pays?)

  Do you have a regular council garbage service, or private, and if council service, do you have to pay extra for them to travel up your private road?

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  punkindrublic on 07/03/2017 - 22:16

  Yeah, aside from being able to tell people you own a road, the only thing you're getting out of it is endless maintenance bills and (probably) a whole lot of arguments with your co-owners about paying said bills.

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  [Deactivated] on 07/03/2017 - 23:35

  Don't bother
  thats all I will say on the topic

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  Ryanek on 08/03/2017 - 08:16

  +3

  "They assured me that rubbish and post will still be collected/delivered directly to the house"

  I've learnt never to trust anything an agent tells me when they are trying to sell land.

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  BobD on 08/03/2017 - 09:28

  I'm in VIC and living in a gated estate with private roads. The gates are open during daylight hours. We get garbage pickups OK but Auspost is a dead loss. They won't deliver parcels to the house. I've had arguments with them about it and they just won't do it.

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  Euphemistic on 10/03/2017 - 08:28

  I wouldn't want a garbage truck driving up my private road. Heavy loads are the quickest way to kill the road pavement.