NEIGHBORS FARM ANIMALS GRAZE ON WEEKEND HOME PROPERTY. A buyer from Brooklyn was buying a weekend house up in Greene County. The house was surrounded by farm with fields of horses and cows. He paid for a survey to insure what he was buying. He found there were all kind of “funny” lines through the survey. It turned out there was an electric fence put up by one of the farmers to keep his cows and horses from roaming onto others property, but the electric fence was on the buyer’s property. The buyer told Jamie that he loved seeing the horses and cows and didn’t mind! But, she said what happens when you are here 20 years, you have not had a contract written up, and they claim that property is theirs. What happens if a cow comes onto your property and destroys things? So, they had a contract written up between the farmers and the buyer that the buyer is aware that the fencing is there and in order to consent to having it there, the farmers must totally take care of the animals and replace the fence if it breaks. Additionally, if the arrangement becomes cumbersome, the buyer could give 3 months notice to rescind his permission and the farmer would be responsible to remove the fenced.
Owning a Weekend Home
