As I mentioned here before we own about 80 acres with two of Neil's brothers. This land consists of about 20 acres of woods, we rent out about 45 acres or so farmland, there is a barn that we all are working on restoring and rest of land well just there. We are slowly working on clearing the fencelines of trees that of grown up on them.
We found out about this land as it was a BIL's uncles property. It is hard to buy a good parcel of land for a good price and he rents the farmland from us.
We allow two of his sons to deer hunt (if they want) on the property as they own the adjacent property. They also let us borrow random items if we need it when working on the property and give us a hand if needed.
One of Neil's brothers had a daughter has a boyfriend and they are "supposedly" engaged. A ring was given to her about a year ago but no wedding plans have every been mentioned. This boyfriend (who BTW is about 12 yrs older than my niece) is not well excepted by his potential in laws! We rarely see him at any family gatherings.
Well he has been asking, almost to the point of demanding that he be allowed to hunt on our property. A couple of years ago he brought this up and then went on and on about if he was hunting on our land no one else could be on the property -he was acting like this land was his and that we wouldn't be allowed to go on it!! No mentioned of any compensation or offer to help when we need it was brought up.
None of Neil's other two brothers or Neil does not hunt. This is not why we bought the property. We know we could lease out the hunting rights and make some money but that this not the purpose of the land. If we want to walk through the woods in the fall we will without the fear of being watched by a hunter.
Since this is now bow hunting season here and gun hunt starts in about 6 weeks the pressure will be increasing on Neil's brother from this boyfriend to allow him to him.
He just doesn't seem to accept the word no. Any advice that we can give to bolster the "no" would be great!!
Thanks for any ideas??
We found out about this land as it was a BIL's uncles property. It is hard to buy a good parcel of land for a good price and he rents the farmland from us.
We allow two of his sons to deer hunt (if they want) on the property as they own the adjacent property. They also let us borrow random items if we need it when working on the property and give us a hand if needed.
One of Neil's brothers had a daughter has a boyfriend and they are "supposedly" engaged. A ring was given to her about a year ago but no wedding plans have every been mentioned. This boyfriend (who BTW is about 12 yrs older than my niece) is not well excepted by his potential in laws! We rarely see him at any family gatherings.
Well he has been asking, almost to the point of demanding that he be allowed to hunt on our property. A couple of years ago he brought this up and then went on and on about if he was hunting on our land no one else could be on the property -he was acting like this land was his and that we wouldn't be allowed to go on it!! No mentioned of any compensation or offer to help when we need it was brought up.
None of Neil's other two brothers or Neil does not hunt. This is not why we bought the property. We know we could lease out the hunting rights and make some money but that this not the purpose of the land. If we want to walk through the woods in the fall we will without the fear of being watched by a hunter.
Since this is now bow hunting season here and gun hunt starts in about 6 weeks the pressure will be increasing on Neil's brother from this boyfriend to allow him to him.
He just doesn't seem to accept the word no. Any advice that we can give to bolster the "no" would be great!!
Thanks for any ideas??