[Glutton]

This is legalized extortion. It is a poor cousin to the canabalism we see in the stock market when holding companies and other corporations undertake hostile takeovers of other companies.

This is the fruit of a jackal of a land speculator who produces nothing but headaches and expenses for everyone else. Just like corporate pirates do.

People like this erode faith in the concept of private property, and are an invitation to revamp and change the very definitions of concepts like even that of what is or isn't private property, and what private property is defined as.

[ThinkingMan]

IT IS BUSINESS! The guy is making a buck by playing by the rules. There is no law against being a clymer, and sometimes you have to be one to get business done. Do you think that without the fence, the homeowners would have ever bought the lake access property? NO! They would not need to as they would have all the free access that they wanted, just as they had for years. He has simply invoked the law of supply and demand- take away the supply, the price goes up. Yes the guy is a jerk, but don't the homeowners bear quite a bit of the responsibility as well? I am sick of people complaining about "unfairness" caused by their own complacency. I am willing to bet that if they post an offer high enough, the guy would have his own mother remove the fence.