About Easements.com

Easements are recorded in county records and listed on Schedule B of a title commitment, but they are written for lawyers and title examiners. A buyer reading “a 15-foot utility easement over the westerly portion of Lot 7 per Book 412, Page 88” usually cannot tell whether that sentence means the pool they planned is now impossible.

The costly mistakes happen after closing: a shed inside a drainage easement, an addition over a sewer main, a driveway crossing a neighbor’s access strip. Those are expensive to undo and almost always visible in documents the buyer already had. Our job is to make those documents readable in the window when the information still changes a decision.

Address lookup. You search a property address. We assemble what is publicly available for that parcel — parcel boundaries, recorded corridors, and the county offices that hold the underlying instruments — and show it on a map with surveyor-style symbology separating public rights-of-way from private easements.

Title commitment analysis. You upload a title commitment or preliminary report. We extract the Schedule B exceptions, classify each one (utility, access, setback, drainage, mineral, lien), and explain in plain English what it permits and what it restricts, along with an allowed / conditional / blocked read for common projects.

Reference material. We publish state easement law summaries, county recording-office guides, a title and easement glossary, and answers to the questions homeowners actually ask. Those pages are free and require no account.

We work from free, publicly accessible sources: county and state GIS parcel services, public infrastructure and right-of-way layers, open mapping data, and the documents you upload yourself. We deliberately do not resell proprietary parcel datasets.

When we do not have real boundary data for a parcel, we say so and show nothing rather than draw an approximate line. A lot line that looks authoritative but is invented is worse than a blank map, because someone will build against it.

Document analysis is machine-assisted. Text is extracted from the file you upload and summarized into structured findings, each tied back to the exception language it came from, so you can check any conclusion against the original wording. Results are typically ready within a few minutes.

Your uploaded documents stay private to your account. We do not sell them, publish them, or use them to target advertising.

We are not a law firm, a title company, or a licensed surveying practice, and nothing on this site is legal advice or a boundary survey. Our output is for preliminary planning. Final site plans, encroachment questions, and anything you intend to rely on at closing should be verified by a licensed surveyor or a real estate attorney in your state.

The reference library and address lookups are free. We charge for in-depth report generation and exports, and some free pages carry clearly labeled advertising. Ads never appear on paid reports, checkout, or account screens, and advertisers have no influence over our guides, glossary, or the findings in any report.

General and support questions: support@easements.com. For corrections to a state or county guide, tell us the page and the source we should be citing — we would rather fix it than defend it.

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