No easements of any kind. There are covenants but it was stuff like "no commercial poultry raising, no mushroom farming, and put some kind of visual block in front of the propane tank’. Silly, more obvious stuff.
We will meet with the farmer Wednesday. One option is to say “we’re not willing to do anything, figure it out.” Allowing someone to tear up the entire length of the property is pushing it as far as being “neighborly”. If he expects us to pay a red cent, it’s a hell-no.
Good lord! They really had the audacity to expect you to pay 50% to UNDO all your hard work (then have to pay 100% to redo it all over again). I can’t. Eff those people forreal.
He can put in a new effing tile a different direction, good god. People are amazing.
I’m so sorry you have to deal with all this. We get along well with our neighbors for which I am grateful. We allow them to hunt on our property and they allow us to ride on theirs. One neighbor even cut a bunch of downed trees on one of the old logging roads that crosses both our properties so he could ride his atv with his kids, which made it more accessible for the horses. I guess you just never know what you’re going to get, neighbor-wise. We got lucky.
Horses spent their first overnight turned out on the pasture. They got fly sheets because the Old Man is super sensitive to skeeters. He took advantage of the new shavings I put down in anticipation of the upcoming thunderstorms at about 1 in the morning. Zzzzz
Here’s the final photos of the tack room. Is it perfect? Heck no. Is it perfect for me? Yup!
And the outside of the tack room. The little bougie sitting area. Eventually I’ll find a big print or something to hang on the t&g wall.
That all looks amazing!! I have black background portraits of all of my alumni behind my sitting area
I love that, and I love those chairs! What is that style called?
They are bar height Adirondacks. These were crazy expensive (I looked all over but you either spend $40 or $400 
) but they took me less than 20 minutes to put together and they are INSANELY comfortable. We liked them so much we bought a shorter set for our patio. The patio ones have been sitting in the sun a few years and haven’t faded yet.
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How cool. I love how they have a little table between them!
Me too! They’re a great place to chill in the aisle (for the two times a month I’m sitting in the barn lol)
I am pleased to see your fire extinguisher. I have boarded in places that had none. Mine is in my barn workshop so I put this sign on the door from the barn aisle. In the event of a fire I might even panic and forget where it is so the label is for me as much as visitors.
They guy left like 6 full size, fully charged extinguishers. I didn’t complain! There’s another in the hay area.
Do not forget to put an extinguisher near whatever door of the house that you would be running out to get to the barn if there was a problem.
One’s already there, but it’s a small one. I’ve got the room to put a full size one though!
So the tile is draining the field of the farmer across the street?
Any chance you can redirect or use that water yourself? I don’t know the elevations or layout, though I think you are fairly flat in terms of elevation (which is sadly limiting) but if you have the space or elevation, I would cut the tile, create a detention basin, and let it spread out.
If you really get creative, you might even be able to get state/federal money for stormwater/wildlife enhancement.
No idea, but I would think out side of the box if you can. Totally outside, so that the neighbor from hell no longer has any say in anything.
It already ends up here (well not anymore, we put the backhoe in the ground to eliminate the problem by installing solid pvc in order to be able to cap it and hold it in the farmers field where it belongs). The tricky part is the drainage districts - across the street is a different county.
Where it floods now is our east side yard. That by itself isn’t an issue - the issue is that it floods the nice neighbor’s yard too. I don’t mind natural runoff pooling there but it backflows thousands of gallons of field runoff. It will backflow for a day or two, ending up several feet deep there.
Eta: the neighbor from hell has no say in this, period. The tile doesn’t run on his property at all. He just wants to insert himself in everything. We’ve been calling him the mayor. The guy is totally full of baloney - told the nice neighbors the tree that intruded on their smaller tile was a silver maple. I was over there helping them clean up the mess they made replacing the tile and looked at the tree - it’s a river birch.
those are some happy hippos.
I told them one of them was supposed to stand guard. They rolled their eyes at me. 
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