A great price on a parcel doesn't mean much if you can't actually get to it. Every year, buyers close on land only to discover afterward that there's no legal way to reach it from a public road — no deeded easement, no recorded right-of-way, nothing but a neighbor's driveway they happen to be using informally. That's a landlocked parcel, and it's one of the costliest things to find out about after closing instead of before. Here's what "landlocked" actually means, why it matt