The perils of renting!

[blackpowder]

Ive had landlords refuse caveat.
Ive had landlords completely ignore a lease. How big before legal action pays??
Ive seen landlords get Alzhiemers and the family suffer from dumbshits.
Ive seen landlords want their share of the box corners and a little screenings.
Ive seen landlords take all the ad hoc payments.
Ive custom seeded and pulled calves for no thanks to have the land rented to somebody else. Ive seen wives worse than bat shit crazy.
Never had this happen quite yet although I was evicted during fallswork once (senility).
Feel sorry for you as there is no fix for spazzy, haywire, chickenshit stupid.
Landlords are in a way a partner and you cant always control what youre getting into.
Getting tired of hearing from the I own everything dont have to be stupid and rent **** all crowd. The post was about renting not stroking your own esteem.
Is there a correlation between wealth induced isolation and zero understanding of the other guy??? Hey my landlords got that too.

[vvalk]

Landlords have their share of bad shot crazy tenants

[helmsdale]

Sumdum. Think he honestly thought he was doing me a favor. I prefer to curry my own favor. Payment post harvest is pretty much the norm here.

How does one go about registering the rental with titles?

[Ronski]

I'm not saying this is what happened with you Helmsdale but I got caught up in the middle with no idea about 10 years ago.
I used to rent a piece right across the road from a neighbor/friend, he got hired on at a feedlot about 3 miles away and they started farming the land. I was disappointed (picked rocks, chopped straw, tried to build fertility vs previous summerfallow etc) but I understood he got to farm his own land for them with shiny green equipment so no hard feelings on my part (maybe a bit of jealousy in my MF1505 with no AC).
Near the end of year 4 he called me and asked if I'd cut and bale some greenfeed for him, I said sure (cause thats what neighbors do) and he pointed me at the piece I used to farm. I started cutting without a care in the world and after about 2 hours pickups started flying into the field. They'd park, watch me for a minute and leave in a huge cloud of dust. Nobody got out of the trucks or even waved at me (3 or 4 different trucks).
Turns out the local BTO hadn't paid rent for 4 years or wages for the last 6 months and this was the landlord/employees way of getting squared up with them.
It was a sign of things to come and there was a bankruptcy in the next season or so.
I wound up with a bit of custom work that year and rented the land for another 10 until he started seeding it down to grass for his horses. I can sit back and chuckle now but I felt like an asshole when I found out it wasn't technically his crop (until I heard the full story, wish I had a picture of my face when I heard the first part though, definately an "oh shit" moment).
Its not always the landlord

[freewheat]

A guy like that MUST have shown signs of shadiness before that?

I rent from certain neighbors and we have nothing but verbal contracts. I have no qualms about it. We all have reputations and good faith in eachother to back it up. I suppose if you never really knew the guy? Several years back, I had put an ad in the paper looking for a bit of land to rent or buy. Had several phone calls, and turned down some land due to distance, but turned down some, due to the owners reputation, and some with another guy who asked such stupid questions that I knew he could not be trusted.

A guy who tries to steal your crop, does not just suddenly decide one day to do so. They are shady through and through. I wonder how much grain he has sifted off you over the years.

Avoid those types. Maybe that is why I farm less today? There are many of those shady sort of people. On both sides of the fence. I have talked it over with my wife who would be good tenants of our land in the case I was suddenly taken from her. Let me tell you, it ain't as simple as who would be the highest bidder. I got my guy picked out, and he will be surprised if something happened to me! Thankfully, there are many of the completely trustworthy types as well.

You gotta sort them out. Preferably ahead of time.

[blackpowder]

Absolutely agree that there can be as many lousy tenants. Must also add that by far the majority of my landlords have been salt of the earth morally even tho occasionally silly.

[Klause]

I think your landlord may have alzheimers? Sounds like something that happened in my In - laws family thanks to a senile old coot...

[helmsdale]

Freewheat. No prior indication, which is what bothered me the most. I need to get the hell out of this pete and back home to have a proper sit down about this. The only thing that makes sense to me with past behavior, and the brief long distance phone call last night is that he honestly thought he was doing me a favor. I would HOPE that a bale cheque minus rent was coming my way, but without any prior discussion about it, your gut tells you to protect your crop by all means necessary.

[helmsdale]

Klause. It has been burning at me that maybe i should be asking some other ppl close to him if theyve noticed anything of late. He called me my brother 3 or 4 times when Dad talked to him yesterday, and did the same on the phone a few times last night before he corrected himself. Option 1 was a misplaced attempt to help, Option 2 could be very much as you say. If 2 is the case it could get ugly going forward.

[pourfarmer]

Good thinking, talk to his family as well. You seem like a pretty level headed guy, I don't know if I would be taking this as well you are. Good luck