Thanks, Wanda.  I'm glad I'm not alone.  Our issue is that it's not the appraisers who are telling the clients about a private road, it's US, the abstractors.  On Michigan plats, roads are marked as public or private.  Also many of the counties have Road Commission books which show every road -- public or not -- in the county.  I like what you said to your client ... I'll try it.  Too bad I do occassionally run into the damn road agreements!  If they didn't exist at all, it would be easier.

Alix