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It isn't that I can't afford to feed the ponies, it's that in spring and summer good hay isn't available. I have big horses too, and I explained to her from the beginning that the ponies that I mow for either couldn't be in the pasture because they are escape artists or in the case of one of them it's because he is a stud pony. He used to be in the pasture until I saw this little 40" pony bring a 15 hand gelding to his knees. He can't be around the geldings period.
As for the profit line of thinking... the people that used to own our property sold a small chunk along the edge of our property and right beside the neighbors to the local grain elevator and they put up a storage building. The chunk they sold was 170' x 33'. Somehow the neighbor bought the excess property behind the building so now our property line goes west 170', north 33', and east 30' before it heads north again. The neighbor called me this morning and has offered to do a quit claim on part of it if I pay the legal fees which she said will probably be a couple of hundred. But she isn't talking about the whole section behind the building (which would be roughly 100' x 33' after you subtract the land that the building is on), she wants me to pay a couple of hundred for the 30' x 33' section that cuts into our property. I think the going rate for land up here is around $2000 an acre if it's ideal property. Her property is just a field and most of it has a pretty steep slope. And yes, her property is probably worth a little bit more now that it has been cleaned up but it still wouldn't be worth even $2000.
I asked her about 5 years ago if she would sell it to me. She didn't want to. I asked if she would consider leasing it so I could let my big horses graze it, she said only if I put up electric fence (never mind that there wasn't electricity out there and a charger that would handle that amount of fencing would have been very expensive). After we started cleaning it up, I was glad that I didn't fence it and turn the horses out because there was a LOT of downed wire out there, most of it barbed, and I found it all with my mower.
I guess until the ponies sell I'll just do what I used to do before I mowed her field... run some electric fencing in my front yard and turn the ponies loose on it. Makes the yard look pretty bad, but I'll do whatever I have to do...
As far as 'the easiest way to make an enemy of a friend is to loan them money, live with them. or get involved in a business transaction.' goes? I have bent over backwards for this woman doing clean up there that was of no benefit to me, I have taken her home made jelly several times, the gallons of Juneberries, home processed chickens, a big bag of gizzards because she loves them. I have done some clean up work in her yard just to help her out. And what she did doesn't exactly make me want to do anything else for her. I will remain polite, but that is it.
As for the profit line of thinking... the people that used to own our property sold a small chunk along the edge of our property and right beside the neighbors to the local grain elevator and they put up a storage building. The chunk they sold was 170' x 33'. Somehow the neighbor bought the excess property behind the building so now our property line goes west 170', north 33', and east 30' before it heads north again. The neighbor called me this morning and has offered to do a quit claim on part of it if I pay the legal fees which she said will probably be a couple of hundred. But she isn't talking about the whole section behind the building (which would be roughly 100' x 33' after you subtract the land that the building is on), she wants me to pay a couple of hundred for the 30' x 33' section that cuts into our property. I think the going rate for land up here is around $2000 an acre if it's ideal property. Her property is just a field and most of it has a pretty steep slope. And yes, her property is probably worth a little bit more now that it has been cleaned up but it still wouldn't be worth even $2000.
I asked her about 5 years ago if she would sell it to me. She didn't want to. I asked if she would consider leasing it so I could let my big horses graze it, she said only if I put up electric fence (never mind that there wasn't electricity out there and a charger that would handle that amount of fencing would have been very expensive). After we started cleaning it up, I was glad that I didn't fence it and turn the horses out because there was a LOT of downed wire out there, most of it barbed, and I found it all with my mower.
I guess until the ponies sell I'll just do what I used to do before I mowed her field... run some electric fencing in my front yard and turn the ponies loose on it. Makes the yard look pretty bad, but I'll do whatever I have to do...
As far as 'the easiest way to make an enemy of a friend is to loan them money, live with them. or get involved in a business transaction.' goes? I have bent over backwards for this woman doing clean up there that was of no benefit to me, I have taken her home made jelly several times, the gallons of Juneberries, home processed chickens, a big bag of gizzards because she loves them. I have done some clean up work in her yard just to help her out. And what she did doesn't exactly make me want to do anything else for her. I will remain polite, but that is it.
