Just Another Old Geezer's posting made me remember one pulled on me a few years ago. There is a hundred acre farm just a half mile down the road from me. Between myself and my Grand father we had rented the farm for over thirty years. Never miss a rent payment and treated the ground just like our own. Keep the fences repaired, water ways mowed, The gates all working etc. Like I stated just like we owned it. Kept the fertility level up too.
A woman owns it. She is about my age but has not lived in on the farm for years. She lives in town but always liked coming out the the farm and complimented us on how good we kept the place.
Local BTO some how talked her into renting to him. He offered her a big rent. She just sent us notice in Sept. saying we did not have the farm for the next year. I went and talked to her about it and she just was fixated on the big rent she was going to get. This was four years ago.
So the BTO started farming it. The first thing to go was the gates and fences. He would just take his loader and push them into a pile of wood/wire/gates. He has to have real wide gates to get his equipment through. There is not a water way left. He has plowed out every one of them. This last fall when we got that big four inch rain they all washed out four feet deep. He just had them all pushed out and billed the old lady owner for the repair. There is not one good fence left as he just drives where ever he wants and if the fence is in his way it gets cut. The trees are falling out into the land and he just shoves them back. The whole place looks like he!!. He has not had any lime or fertilizer applied this year as it is the last on his contract. He just put on anhydrous. He does this all of the time he never leaves any fertility in any farm he is thrown off of.
The current owner came to me last fall to see if I wanted the farm back. I quoted her a price that was about 75% of what I had been giving. She could not understand how come it was worth so much less than it was. I told her I could not run any cattle on her farm now and that made there be a lot of wasted acres. She said the BTO had cut her rent too as he was paying her for just the acres he could grow grain on. She did not know about the tore out fences. I took her on a ride around her farm. She was crying after just a few minutes. She does not know what to do. She needs the rental income but it is going to cost a bunch of money to fix and repair things to the level they where four years ago.
I just got the soil test back and sent them to her with a copy of the ones I had run the fall before we quit the farm. The P and K levels are half what they where.
I would not mind having the land back but it is not worth what it was a few years ago. She now knows that any of the BTO are not going to maintain her farm like she wants. So how do you be fair about the rent. The farm is worth less due to her actions. I can't pay a big rent and then fix the place up on top of that. I was paying her $300 per acre on the tillable ground and a $100 for the pasture. He came in and offered $400 for the ground did not mention the pasture. He paid her the $400 for all the acres the first year. Then he just paid her for the tillable gound he farmed. He left out any pasture and small fields he could not turn a 36 row planter around in. So her actual rent is now below what I was giving her four years ago. Her lawyer is an idoit too he did not get a written contract between her and the BTO. So she has little recourse against him. She says one thing and he another. I don't even think I can make a profit at the rents I was paying. It is going to take time and money to fix the fences and gates. I am thinking of renting it for the old price but she has to pay for all of the materials to repair the fences and gates. I would provide the labor and machinery to rebuild the fences. I also want a ten year contract. With damages if She want out before the end. It is going to take a lot of work to get things straighten out.
Side note. The BTO had his finisher break the frame right in front of my house yeaterday. It chewed up a hundred feet of road before his dope head son could get stopped. The BTO had the nerve to come and ask me to weld it for him. I told him I would charge $250 per hour with the first hour paid bfore I moved out of the shop. (He is a known cheat) He stomped out cussing me. I told him the minmum just went up. I also called the county road dept.They sent out a man right then. The BTO is going to have to pay for the road to be repaired. The BTO came back about an hour later to have me fix it. It took me two hours to get it straighten out, re-welded, and re-enforced. He paid me cash and stomped out again. LMAO His hired hand let it slip that no else would come out to fix it for him. He owes all of the local dealers old repair bills. He is trading equipment over a hundred miles away now.
A woman owns it. She is about my age but has not lived in on the farm for years. She lives in town but always liked coming out the the farm and complimented us on how good we kept the place.
Local BTO some how talked her into renting to him. He offered her a big rent. She just sent us notice in Sept. saying we did not have the farm for the next year. I went and talked to her about it and she just was fixated on the big rent she was going to get. This was four years ago.
So the BTO started farming it. The first thing to go was the gates and fences. He would just take his loader and push them into a pile of wood/wire/gates. He has to have real wide gates to get his equipment through. There is not a water way left. He has plowed out every one of them. This last fall when we got that big four inch rain they all washed out four feet deep. He just had them all pushed out and billed the old lady owner for the repair. There is not one good fence left as he just drives where ever he wants and if the fence is in his way it gets cut. The trees are falling out into the land and he just shoves them back. The whole place looks like he!!. He has not had any lime or fertilizer applied this year as it is the last on his contract. He just put on anhydrous. He does this all of the time he never leaves any fertility in any farm he is thrown off of.
The current owner came to me last fall to see if I wanted the farm back. I quoted her a price that was about 75% of what I had been giving. She could not understand how come it was worth so much less than it was. I told her I could not run any cattle on her farm now and that made there be a lot of wasted acres. She said the BTO had cut her rent too as he was paying her for just the acres he could grow grain on. She did not know about the tore out fences. I took her on a ride around her farm. She was crying after just a few minutes. She does not know what to do. She needs the rental income but it is going to cost a bunch of money to fix and repair things to the level they where four years ago.
I just got the soil test back and sent them to her with a copy of the ones I had run the fall before we quit the farm. The P and K levels are half what they where.
I would not mind having the land back but it is not worth what it was a few years ago. She now knows that any of the BTO are not going to maintain her farm like she wants. So how do you be fair about the rent. The farm is worth less due to her actions. I can't pay a big rent and then fix the place up on top of that. I was paying her $300 per acre on the tillable ground and a $100 for the pasture. He came in and offered $400 for the ground did not mention the pasture. He paid her the $400 for all the acres the first year. Then he just paid her for the tillable gound he farmed. He left out any pasture and small fields he could not turn a 36 row planter around in. So her actual rent is now below what I was giving her four years ago. Her lawyer is an idoit too he did not get a written contract between her and the BTO. So she has little recourse against him. She says one thing and he another. I don't even think I can make a profit at the rents I was paying. It is going to take time and money to fix the fences and gates. I am thinking of renting it for the old price but she has to pay for all of the materials to repair the fences and gates. I would provide the labor and machinery to rebuild the fences. I also want a ten year contract. With damages if She want out before the end. It is going to take a lot of work to get things straighten out.
Side note. The BTO had his finisher break the frame right in front of my house yeaterday. It chewed up a hundred feet of road before his dope head son could get stopped. The BTO had the nerve to come and ask me to weld it for him. I told him I would charge $250 per hour with the first hour paid bfore I moved out of the shop. (He is a known cheat) He stomped out cussing me. I told him the minmum just went up. I also called the county road dept.They sent out a man right then. The BTO is going to have to pay for the road to be repaired. The BTO came back about an hour later to have me fix it. It took me two hours to get it straighten out, re-welded, and re-enforced. He paid me cash and stomped out again. LMAO His hired hand let it slip that no else would come out to fix it for him. He owes all of the local dealers old repair bills. He is trading equipment over a hundred miles away now.
