Should I do this?

[7L Farm]

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Its already built. Its the realtor that built the house for someone in her family I was told. You know they want to show that the property's selling. Big scam, you know get rich quick scenario. Maybe, it will work who knows. They try it out here alot but usually doesn't work. At twenty-five thousand an acre then you need a house,water well, & septic. Heck, they offer me fifteen thousand an acre I'm gone. Next time I'll buy the land next to my house problem solved.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I feel your pain.
I'm only on 3/4 acre but lots of room around me. Woods on 3 sides and a 4 acre field next to me that's been for sale since I moved here 12 years ago. It was originally subdivided into 8 lots. Any building would have 3 back yards and houses 50 feet from my house.
Then they tried to get it rezoned to 15 lots. Luckily that failed and it reverted to original zoning of 1 acre lots.
Then another shock. A church was trying to buy it. Nothing against churches but the beautiful field next to me would become a parking lot. The runoff would kill me.

 

[mandelyn]

I would start scrapping for old tin roofs and such and build quite the monstrosity of a fence... like what they put around scrap yards. A couple of cans of spray paint for some home made No Trespassing signs... you'd be all set. Perhaps I would take up shooting practice as well, surely you can do that on your hundred acres.

It's terrible really... but they really do throw down some cheaply made McMansions right in the middle of prime farm land. If they keep this up, what in the world are we going to eat?

We used to have corn and soy beans from here to Dayton. Now it's all mini malls and houses with a couple of farmers hanging on in the fringe areas. The construction is so poor, it doesn't take much a storm or tornado to shred it down to the foundation. I went to a "Home-A-Rama" development, a showcase of sorts (if you want to call it that) of new homes. Base price $1.3 million. I wasn't impressed.

My mom used to do Wetland Protection for the Sierra Club... biggest issue? Developers buying cheap land, building cheap houses, and lawsuits from the home buyers for cracked foundations and other issues related to the build site. We did a lot of soil testing. Sometimes we were able to negotiate and the developer would install a pond and build 3 houses fewer than he was thinking. Other times... we had to rescue wildlife off the natural pond so that they could drain it, fill it, and build a house on top.

Greedy.

 

[twentynine]

As previous poster mentioned....

If you are acting out of spite, don't do it.

At the price of fencing a 12' fence cost a lot of spite per foot.

 

[frostbite]

It's always sad when things change, this way. But we don't have the rights to property we don't own. Just because property changes hands and new owners choose to develop it doesn't mean they are evil. And when people move into those homes, it doesn't mean they're conspiring. Our population is expanding and people have to live somewhere.

By all means, if you'd rather see a fence than a housing development, put up a fence. But don't do it out of spite and anger. Do it because it would give you peace.

Who knows, some of your new neighbors might be really wonderful people that you would be blessed to know if you had the chance.

 

[7L Farm]

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I don't understand it. Perfect farm land deystroyed. Your right what are they gonna eat I'm gonna eat what I harvest off my land. Eggs, venision, my quail, & whatever I can grow in my garden.

 

[Royd]

Depending on which side of the property you are putting the fence, you could be limiting the sunlight to a few acres of land. If it's on the north side, I'd say, roll with the project. Otherwise, I'd consider the limitations to your use of the land.

A gardener who wishes he had 12 hours of sunlight, everyday.

 

[frostbite]

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Royd, you are one practical fellow. Good point.

 

[7L Farm]

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I've thought this your right no doubt. Change is always hard. Its hard for me to ride into my pasture & look back & see this. The fence will solve the problem. I don't want someone being able to see me through their window that's why I live in the country. Isn't the whole concept of living in the country is to have your privacy. I mean if you want neighbors stay in the city. Why spend god knows how much money only to have more neighbors doesn't make sense to me. I don't understand why someone would want to do this. Guess I'm brain dead.

 

[Marthab1953]

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If it was my property and a new development built next to me and i did not want to look at all the new neighbors I would do it, after all it is your property!