That's exactly right Monte, the horses knows how and will drink ifn he wants. But you can't make him do it. You can make it easy for him to do it though.
paden cash, post: 388317, member: 20 wrote: I am currently working on a project that involves subdividing an 80 acre tract into several smaller tracts, reportedly for future sales. The client is a church and ministry, and the owner of the property. The only residence on the 80 acres is rental property and the lady that lives there is starting to be a pain in the butt. I'm really ignorant of her agreement with the record owner. My contact with the owners has told me "she is a renter and shouldn't be any problem".
There is a coded security gate into the property. I should have known something was up when the code provided by the owner worked the first day, and not the second time we were out there. Guess who changed it? The tenant had been noticeably invisible the first day we were there and we were told she knew we were coming and we had free range of the property. After I contacted my clients about the code change on the security gate their rep met me on site and I was finally introduced to the tenant."..Shouldn't be any problem" is not the way I would describe this woman. This fella from the church (my contact) stands around with his hat in his hand and treats her like she's the Queen of Sheba. I can tell he's deathly afraid of upsetting her. When he and I FINALLY had some time alone I explained to him I needed to know if this lady had anything to do with the dealings. If so, we should include her in the process. If not, I may actually have to get brusque with her if she impedes my work. He once again reiterated she was just a tenant and our subdivision of the property should proceed as planned. Okie-doaky.
This lady has a few horses, a barn and stables and a nice pasture pen up by the house. It's really a bucolic and quant place, but per instructions the house is to be placed on a 10 acre tract with a specific amount of frontage per city requirements. Dividing the area per plans will relieve her house site of the barn, stable and pasture. She is not aware of that. I finally figured out why nobody at the church wants to talk to her.
After the fella from the church left the tenant lady came back outside and started explaining how she "really wanted" everything to be laid out. I would have preferred to wrap her mouth shut with duct tape and tie her to her own porch post, but I resisted. I showed her the proposed layout that we were pretty much going to have to stick with and she had a meltdown. I wish her wishy-washy landlords would have explained to her what was going on and not left it up to me.
After she had said "I'm not going to let THAT happen" (talking about relieving her of the barn and pasture)...I asked her, "So you own the property?" No. She's lived there twenty something years as a renter. But she somehow thinks everything should be to her approval. I was actually able to get her talons out of me after a while and continue on with what were doing.
When I left I called my client and asked him if the church had any sort of rental agreement or lease. Probably not he tells me, but it has always been "understood" she just rented the house. In years past the church maintained the horse and stables as a spot to bring young folks involved in their ministry to enjoy horseback riding. Over the years this tenant has become so hard to get along with no one wants to deal with her and the church doesn't even keep any animals there anymore. She has just kind of squatted on the whole place and rules the area like she is the "queen bee".
My "not to exceed" quote on the fees may have to adjusted if we're required to play this lady's silly little games. I really feel it's the owner's responsibility to keep her out of my hair. The church has an attorney that is gathering the title work and I should be talking with him next week. We'll see if he can get a muzzle on her somehow.
Oh, and she changed the security code...again.
Is that the lady from goonies?
I am currently dividing some land for a winery to set up the winery as one tract, the home as another tract and the remaining portion will be in three persons for the children.
In the last 5yrs I have surveyed the East boundary to create access easements into the property from a road 1/4mi to the east.
There is a near road that is easy to access into property and a "son-in-law" whose wife is getting that end keeps locking a gate on me every day and I must exit thru the winery that means traveling about a mile thru the rough woods road with truck and trailer for ATV and be careful not to run over something as I maneuver the maze of vines, buildings, equipment and people wanting a daily update.
My quote for every time the gate is locked on us has been "that's another hundred dollars" and the invoice will reflect that in extra time spent out there.
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Adam, post: 388382, member: 8900 wrote: Is that the lady from goonies?
Yes, and throw momma from the train
Adam, post: 388382, member: 8900 wrote: Is that the lady from goonies?
That's her I believe, Anne Ramsey. I remember her best as Danny DeVito's mother in "Throw Momma From The Train". Interestingly her unique voice and enunciation was due to surgery from throat cancer. She passed away in '87 or '88. Quite a good comedy actress.
Edit: I see some others got a good ID on her also. 😉
