piller wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:09 pm
Looks like a fun place to be. You are obviously putting time and effort in to keep it a good place. Hope you have lots more fun times waiting to be experienced there.
Thanks piller!
Luckily, something that was very stressful and upsetting, worked out in the end for us.
My dad and I built a camp about 25 years ago a little further north in the hills on 40 acres we owned. There was nothing for miles. It was V-match inside with open ceilings. We had a lot of good times there hunting over the years.
After almost 20 years, next thing we know, we get caught up in one of those communist windmill projects.
We went to a public hearing and I pretty much let them have it. Luckily, I've worked in the power industry all my life and asked some questions they didn't want to answer in a room full of people.
The next day they called us at home and asked what they had to do to make us happy. I told them it would be expensive.
Then started an almost 3 year ordeal of searching for property that wasn't stripped off or worthless. We had one lot lined up, surveying all done, and agreements signed, then the holder stripped it. We started all over again.
We finally found the lot we now have. It was owned by a large land company. The windmill corporation acquired it and swapped us even for our holdings.
Lot of sleepless nights throughout this ordeal, but in the end it cost us nothing. Zero. That little camp and 40 acres was the best investment my dad ever made.
The camp has sat empty ever since. It was two years before they even asked for the keys. Shame. It was a beautiful camp. I avoid the area at all costs now.
They offered to move it but we would have to take less land so we didn't.
I'm sure it will bother me when dad is gone, but he is very happy with the property we have.
"Oh bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round.