Upset and hurt...

[SourRoses]

I'm sorry

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Well... a couple hundred dollars extra doesen't seem like that much if you really want the property to keep your ponies...

If not... then yeah.. why don't you up your 'herd' with some even more annoying animals LOL! What makes a lot of noise, and or big stinky poo (cows? Emus? Bison? Something!) that could be housed as close as possible to the new owners property line?? Then you could just offer them the amount they paid for it to take it off their hands.

Also, since your neighbor is offering to do something that might be embarassing or maybe feel dishonest to her.. quiting the sale.. for you.. it sounds to me like she does feel really bad about it. Some people are just really forgetful, you know. We can't expect everyone to have the same kind of memory or thought process that we do. 5 years is a long time ago.. especially if shes not a young person anymore.
I'm lucky if my fairly young mother remembers what I spent an hour telling her about yesterday

I know it hurts though

 

[carolinagirl58]

Now might be a GREAT time to add a few pigs to your little farm! Be sure to put the pen near the fence. And THEN talk to the new owner and see if they might want to sell. I'm just sayin...........

 

[NYboy]

$2,000 a acre wow thats cheap!!

 

[violetsky]

I think it's best to not comingle land/animals with neighbors. I was letting my neighbor cut
hay on my property letting him take the bigger split of bales. No problem at first. One day he hit an
steel fence post some other neighbor, probably a kid left in the field doing $500 of damage
to the baler. Now who pays? I didnt but am sure there is hard feelings. The same neighbor also put his horse in my field without asking and
now neglects it. Now I'm paying for a farrier I don't want to spend money on and have a horse in my field
that I'm not proud of its condition. It has foundered and needs to be dry lotted, but is a fence buster
and clever about escaping and my horses don't beat it up like the neighbors. I think we are both good
people but things just get sticky after awhile. He is probably irked with me for not fertilizing and using herbacides.

 

[Frosty]

She is in her eighties, but trust me, she is as sharp as a tack. I also have to wonder if they saw the place in the winter. Not only will they be living on the south east end of a large open field where prevailing wind is from the north west, but that area is also where the county piles snow from the roads in the winter. I just really am not sure they know what they are buying. And that section of road is really HORRIBLE in the winter. It drifts up really bad and the county doesn't come that often to clear the roads.

I am not really 'flogging' her, I just really have no desire to maintain the 'friendship'. She would come down and see what we were doing and would practically be bouncing up and down as she said how nice it was looking. Last year was the first year most of it could actually be cut with a riding mower and I was actually thinking of having my son smooth out the rough spots that a mower can't handle with our big tractor, and as soon as it was looking really good it was sold. There are a lot of folks in this town that don't like her, and they said she can't be trusted. I chose instead to give her the benefit of doubt because I thought we were 'friends'. I got kicked in the teeth and actually feel like we were used. I gave her all of that stuff to show my appreciation, she gave me the grass that we cut.

I doubt the new owners would be interested because a) we cut some every day, not the whole field at once so it wouldn't look nice and even. I did make sure that I kept the level part that you could see from the road mowed often so it always looked nice from there. And b) I sell stuff at a local farm market, including bread. I insist that my bread has to be as fresh as possible, so I stay up the night before market baking. My bread is still warm when I get there, and my reputation is based on that. Then when I come home, I have to get sleep so sometimes it's around 11 PM when I am leaving the field. Not a problem if nobody lives there, but who wants somebody driving a pick up truck around in their 'yard' at 11 PM?

I have to add... she is NOT quitting the sale for me. She ended up with the property behind the elevators building that the previous owners of our property sold to the elevator. So part of the 170' x 33' tract cuts into my property as in 33' x 30' is surrounded on 3 sides by my property. That is ALL she is doing a quit claim on and it will cost me a few hundred to get that. It's all weeds and brush right now.

Amusing as the thought is, I will not punish the new neighbors because of what she did. It isn't their fault. I don't think she knows them because she referred to him as 'this guy' and not by name. And who needs more noisy critters when I already have peafowl? Unlike guineas, peas are noisy at night, too. And I have had these guys for about 2 1/2 years, so I didn't just get them to annoy anybody. Though the though of getting annoying critters does amuse me... at least the thought of it gives me something to laugh about!

 

[cackydoodledoo]

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Glad you are taking the high road!!! Maybe with a little time and hard work this piece she quit claimed to you will be planted with some nice hay. It sounds like you are a hard worker and I am sure you will make the best of it. Good luck to you!!

 

[Frosty]

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No, the piece that she is quit claiming is 30' x 33'. 990 square feet. It sticks in and our property is on three sides so it would be pretty worthless to anyone else.

I'll get over it, but I won't trust this woman again.

 

[newfoundland]

As this lady is in her eighties, it is entirely possible that she has forgotten that you were interested in buying the land 5 years ago. You don't mention paying a rent to her so perhaps the help you have given her was in return for the use of the land? Surely noone would think in terms of punishing new neighbours, or making their lives uncomfortable? That would be most unking.

 

[Frosty]

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As I said earlier, she is still sharp as a tack. I don't believe she forgets anything! As far as use of the land? I thought it was a win/win situation. She wanted it mowed (her son kept telling her he would do it but never did. For years.) So basically I was mowing it for her and cleaned up a lot of junk even around trees where it wasn't mowable. Yes it helped me to get the grass, but it also got her field mowed and cleared at no cost to her. Gas or labor. The stuff I kept taking to her was above and beyond not only to show my appreciation, but also as a gesture of friendship. The work I did in her lawn was just to help her out and had nothing to do with the field. For example, I have a really nice trimmer and knew that she did something to her back so I edged stuff in her lawn for her. I really did enjoy talking to her, she told really interesting stories like about during prohibition. Now all she wants to talk about is the land sale and frankly, I don't want to hear it.

As far as punishing the new neighbors, you must not have seen my earlier post. I find the idea amusing, but it isn't something that I would do. Though at the same time, I won't get rid of the birds that I have or move them because somebody decided to put a house there. The only way to move them farther away would be to put them closer to existing neighbors or out in the pasture. Neither is an option so I can only hope that the sound of geese, roosters, turkeys, and peafowl doesn't bother them.

Amusing as the thought is, I will not punish the new neighbors because of what she did. It isn't their fault. I don't think she knows them because she referred to him as 'this guy' and not by name. And who needs more noisy critters when I already have peafowl? Unlike guineas, peas are noisy at night, too. And I have had these guys for about 2 1/2 years, so I didn't just get them to annoy anybody. Though the though of getting annoying critters does amuse me... at least the thought of it gives me something to laugh about!​

 

[Rammy]

I think she should of informed you of her decision to sell the property and given you first shot at it considering all you have done to keep it maintained for her. I would be hurt, too.

Rammy