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neighbors drive on my land

Just to jump back in here, seeing some of the (not so) helpful comment.

An easement does not give up any ownership rights in the land. Practically everyone on this forum benefits daily from an easement to one utility or government agency or another.

An easement can be limited in scope (who can use it, when it can be used, what can be used on it) and duration (a certain period, during someone's ownership of the dominant property, someone's life).

Timber companies routinely obtain (pay for) temporary easements over adjoining property to facilitate a harvest. One occasion I know of was on our hunting club, across an adjoining landowner, to obtain access to a landlocked tract, which the esteemed members of the ODT bar will tell you does not exist in Georgia. Think of it - a temporary easement to a landlocked tract - ODT minds must be spinning.
Our club property has an easement delineated on the plat for a mining company who owns the lot (landlocked) behind us. A kaolin company from NJ. It's at the far edge of our lot on the county line so we simply do not use that 100' wide stretch along the boundary.

The mining comoany has never used it to build a road.
 
Aside from this easement by prescription affects the OP, the current owner of the land, let's consider what effect an easement on a piece of property has on the marketability and fair market value of that property.

What if the land needs to be sold in the future --ever hear of the term "clouded title"? Will a company issue a title insurance bond on the place with an unrecorded easement running through it ? I don't know --but these are questions worth asking and considering.
Kind of my thinking in long term.
Good neighbor wouldnt just take someone property with out asking

Red are the property pins.
Orange is my property.
Blue is the new driveway. Its not reflected on the google map.
Maybe its more then 3' as it fits narrow profile of an SUV

At this point will talk and tell him to stop.
 

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