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Hi, new to the forum and needing some advise. First off let me say that my family and i are very good tenents. I work about 55 hrs a week while my wife can go up to 70 sometimes. We do nothing but work and take care of our children. We moved into a house about 5 months ago. We were impressed with the LL's lease and thought he was going to be a good guy to rent from. Boy was i wrong. We have our rent check ready for him every month on the 15th and its like pulling teeth to get him to come get it. This time he finally came and got it on the 26th. How do you manage money when dealing with a idiot like this? BTW he dont want us to come by his house or mail it to him. And last week he sent this weird teenage girl to my house to mow my yard without my permission. It could only be considered unkept by his unrealistic standards. Our lease says a 25 dollar fee for having him to provide yardwork. He tried to extort me out of 50bucks for the lawn that a 14yr old mowed in a hr. Im getting pretty fed up and i have suspicions that he may have entered the property when nobody was home. He acts like a pervert. He rides by my house when the rent is due and only will stop if my wife is home by herself. He is way to close with this 14yr old girl who is nothing to him but our neighbors daughter. Be has bought her several cows which he put in the field beside the property. This leads to my main question. The lease did not say anything about and electric fence being put up around the house. I have young kids and the oldest has already been shocked. They enjoy being outside on the little time that we have with them. I have seen a cow touch that thing and there is no doubt in my mind that its turned all tbe way up. My oldest only touched it with a blade of grass and it lit him up. I want out. I would never have moved there if it was already surrounded by an electric fence. Is this any grounds to legally break the lease? Sorry about the novel, had to get this off my chest
Can't do much about delivering the rent. If he wants to come by and he's not there when rent is stated to be paid hold on to it until he comes gets it.
As for his wanting to come by only when your wife is home yeah it's pretty unorthodox. He's probably one of those idiots who thinks housewife porn is real.
The lawn mowing doesn't mean anything. As or buying a 14 year old cows could they be related? I know I buy my nephews and nieces and even my friends kids things. There is no nefarious reason. I just know what they like.
The fence is pretty common in farming areas. Maybe it needs to be posted warning it's electrified fence. Tell your kids not to touch it. I don't have farm property,, but I would assume that if you knowingly rent farm/property at dime point a electrified fence may be existing nearby, If you can't stand it then give notice or wait till the lease is up and give notice
i hear ya but no the girl isnt a relative of his. She is a odd one thats for sure. She didnt know my wife was home when she came to mow. my wife came out on the porch and she high tailed it out of their and waited till she was gone to finish. She wont wave or act friendly and she seems to think its ok to pick up my youngest sons little plastic riding toy and throw it as hard as she can into my garage against a wall. It took her three different goes to mow my yard because as soon as one of us would come home she left. I had no reason to think he was going to put cows in that area. Not a single cow field on my road. I have lived in rural areas my whole life and understand why he needs one. I just want a way out and the fence was never agreed on in the lease. As its a potential danger to my kids i feel like i should be able to break lease. I mean if hes allowed to do that, why cant he just build a motocross track in the backyard. i know its a bad analogy but i feel like a renters premise should be as safe for them as the day they moved in. Its challenging as a wore the hell out dad to keep the kids out of the road, now i have to worry about the whole perimeter. I have a boy who isnt even two and tries to get into everything. Whos to say a shock from that fence couldnt do serious harm to him. Everyone is so hard on parents about everything but even the best of them have had kids get hurt by things they may have been able to prevent. the whole situation is stressful.
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Also how is the mowing not a thing to worry about? He charged me double of what the lease says when the grass wssnt grew up and he took it upon himself to send her over there.
Electric fences don't have dials you turn up or down. That's not really how it works. They can vary in strength, but the amount of shock depends on the size of the charger, how much wire they're powering, and how well grounded they are.
I don't know if this is a good place for you or not... it sounds like maybe it's not... and the mowing story sounds weird, but farm kids learn about electric fences pretty young.... they don't keep touching it. That alone would not be a deal breaker for me if the place is otherwise good. I'd rather have an electric fence and cows for neighbors than people!
The fence isnt a dealbreaker for me, he is. Im just looking for an angle to protect myself. It does stress me but its about everything. I dont think its ok for him to not get the rent. If it was, that would imply that he's doing us a favor by renting to us and can bend things to his satisfaction. This is a business relationship, not a favor on either one parts. During my waiting period of holding the rent, i bet if i was to call him and ask for more time, he would say no and be here the next day. We do what most landlords dream of. We pay and we dont destroy the property. His actions show that he has zero respect for us as renters or people. I love the house and most of all loathe moving, i just want him out of my hair.
Btw the electric fence my grampa had up when i was a kid had a dial with 4 setting to modify resistance. Thats my only experience with them so i assumed.
Unless your kids have something wrong with the wiring in their brains, they won't touch that fence more than once. Even special needs kids can learn not to touch the electric fence and learn it really fast. The fence isn't really much of a danger.
Notify the landlord that the check is ready to be picked up and then it is his problem to find a time to pick it up. Develop some sort of system to notify him in writing that the check is ready and each and every time that you write to him that the check is ready, repeat your offer to min it or deliver it to him. If he can't get around to picking it up, he can't evict you for non-payment.
Why is nobody getting what im asking here? The question is: If a landlord puts builds a possible dangerous stucture on the property, is it grounds to break the lease. And they are possibly dangerous. So do kids never have heart problems that the parents dont know about? In that scenerio, does the whole " touch it once they wont do it again" saying apply? Really its the least of my worries with this guy involved. Im looking for legal ways to fight back if i decide I have had enough. Hes already proven to be a problem landlord. Im just waiting to see what bs hes going to pull next.
Was the electric fence there when you moved in or did he put it up afterwards? Unless there is a lawyer on this forum, we aren't going to be able to help much. Maybe check online to see what the laws are in your state.
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