Easements by necessity or prescription readily apply here, but would be a more abrasive than necessary approach.Thanks

I feel like Neo when he took the pill and saw what the matrix really is.

@Sridhar Ramakrishnan, 18 years of appreciation and depreciation recapture is a bitter pill to swallow just to transition into defensive investments like munis. 

Assuming you don't have $2K+ in damages to repair, it's a bitter pill to swallow - but I say move on.

It's a cesspool of misinformation, filled with Nigerian benefactors who owe want to give you millions of dollars, and magic pills from China that will enhance your genitalia.  

You can ask them to produce this prescription.

Sorry for the long answer but there is no magic pill and usually if it looks too good to be true it is.

As a courtesy only, the complete text of § 3712 is provided below: The deed conveys title to the purchaser free of all encumbrances of any kind existing before the sale except:1) Any lien for installments of taxes and special assessments, that installments will become payable upon the secured roll after the time of the sale.2) The lien for taxes or assessments or other rights of any taxing agency that does not consent to the sale under this chapter.3) Liens for special assessments levied upon the property conveyed that were, at the time of the sale under this chapter, not included in the amount necessary to redeem the tax-defaulted property, and, where a taxing agency that collects its own taxes has consented to the sale under this chapter, not included in the amount required to redeem from sale to the taxing agency.4) Easements of any kind, including prescriptive, constituting servitudes upon or burdens to the property; water rights, the record title to which is held separately from the title to the property; and restrictions of record.5) Unaccepted, recorded, irrevocable offers of dedication of the property to the public or a public entity for a public purpose, and recorded options of any taxing agency to purchase the property or any interest therein for a public purpose.6) Unpaid assessments under the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 (Division 10 (commencing with Section 8500) of the Streets and Highways Code) that are not satisfied as a result of the sale proceeds being applied pursuant to Chapter 1.3 (commencing with Section 4671) of Part 8, or that are being collected through a foreclosure action pursuant to Part 14 (commencing with Section 8830) of Division 10 of the Streets and Highways Code.

That path could have become a prescriptive easement through use.

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