Comment Re:Meme (Score 1) 790
I bet that the purchaser would get an easement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement
Now, because it is private land, they would have to spend the money themselves to run cable/pipe and build a road, but the easement would allow them to do so on someone's land.
The next question would be, why would you buy a house that you can't get to from a public road, that has no power, or phone, unless you know that going in?
In the 80s people had to be hooked up to cable for the first time, by digging trenches in the streets, and yards to hook up the new technology. Now all homes have all the connections built in.