Aside from constant threats to drastically alter the property tax structure, existing and expanding rent control, anti-landlord regulatory environment, anti-landlord/investor public sentiment, litigious tendencies, liberal judges, tents popping up everywhere, cardboard sign carrying panhandlers at virtually every roadway intersection, trash on roads pretty much everywhere you look, increasing crime, high cost to get pretty much anything done, and not the greatest economics (speaking from an investment point of view such as price-to-rent ratio, etc), probably my biggest reason is that I like to invest in places where people are moving TO, and avoid places where people are moving FROM. 

One is a lake property that has additional land at the top of the hill that is seperated from the main area by a private roadway.

Something seems off, unless it was under a roadway that you had to build a temporary bypass for traffic and had engineering requirements that added a major expense.

Yes, you can have a triple net, having the tenant pay taxes and insurance and the cost of clearings and maintaining fencing, roadways as well as any improvements, buildings, well, irrigation, whatever.

Some were taken for roadway use, such as an alley to a street and abandoned.

Usually very old alleys and roadways that were never developed, chopped up by sections sold to neighboring property owners years ago.

But once you set those "want" aside and look at the facts, you realize that like was said, it's going to be long and expensive road. Way

Whether you make it an issue will depend on factors very local to that property, such as access to roadway or alleys, whether you or a neighbor have fences or other structures close to where the boundary is expected, whether there is landscaping near the boundary, etc.2) In my area, buyer usually is allowed to select title / escrow company.

Great, sounds much better, now the only issue might be any easement across your property to the sign, those can be some big heavy trucks, LOL, but if they are next the to roadway it's sounding good.

Sure.Does proposed roadway changes affect value of affected values (i.e.