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uppityperson

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35. I've been on both ends of this arrangement and thank you for bringing this up and doing this.

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 03:23 PM

Jun 2013

Our wonderful house/pet sitter started as a recently unemployed homeless person who moved in with us like that for a while, now is house sitting all over and still feels owes us and we feel we owe them.

Trying to come up with $ for rent, I stayed in a trailer of a stranger for a while. I had 1 person later who stayed in mine and stole my bedding and dishes, but oh well. It made me distrust people for a while, but then the good pet/house sitter happened.

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was talking to a friend about my allowing a guy to put his trailer on one of my river lots. [View all] loli phabay Jun 2013 OP

Can you get it in writing? Baitball Blogger Jun 2013 #1

Good point treestar Jun 2013 #5

yup charge a dollar a year or something, hell even give them the dollar on their birthday if you wan loli phabay Jun 2013 #8

if they are in your home then yes i would do a lease of somewhat loli phabay Jun 2013 #6

Adverse possession is all about land. Baitball Blogger Jun 2013 #7

honestly i dont really care, i was not using or planning to use yhat lot loli phabay Jun 2013 #10

There can be easements too treestar Jun 2013 #12

yup i believe that was what my land lawyer set up, i already got the local hoa loli phabay Jun 2013 #13

Sounds very reasonable. Baitball Blogger Jun 2013 #25

i got to say the county and hoa were all easy to work with as well, they all seemed to get it loli phabay Jun 2013 #26

You're not nuts. blueamy66 Jun 2013 #2

not really, the guy just needed somewhere to go when he couldnt afford the rates where he was loli phabay Jun 2013 #4

I still think you're an awesome person. blueamy66 Jun 2013 #9

You are doing a good thing. Jenoch Jun 2013 #18

yup im not up on this side of the law but my lawyer did paperwork for it loli phabay Jun 2013 #20

Kudos! Faux pas Jun 2013 #3

Letting an unknown person with unknown problems into your house isn't always safe REP Jun 2013 #11

yep i dont mean people with serious mental issues, they need more specialised resources loli phabay Jun 2013 #14

I do; and they all either have substance abuse and/or mental health issues REP Jun 2013 #15

well if you have room, it needn't be a guy, what about a homeless mother and kids loli phabay Jun 2013 #19

You are welcome to do that! REP Jun 2013 #21

then you are not the person the question was aimed at, but there have to be duers who have big house loli phabay Jun 2013 #22

kudos to you. as for the homes--there was a wonderful hallmark movie about that very thing, niyad Jun 2013 #16

Allowing someone to put their trailer on a lot is one thing. And I applaud you for it. But totodeinhere Jun 2013 #17

You are not alone... SomethingFishy Jun 2013 #23

now you are a better person than me, though i grew up surrounded by family and friends loli phabay Jun 2013 #24

No better than anyone else. Just in a position to SomethingFishy Jun 2013 #27

yup, though we dont have a large house there are cultural rules that kinda curtail people living loli phabay Jun 2013 #28

When I bought this place, 40 years ago, it had 2 houses on it. No one ever paid rent for the other 1-Old-Man Jun 2013 #29

i just tore down a house that was down in the pasture in front of my house loli phabay Jun 2013 #30

I have a question. We own 12 acres of land. My in-laws use to have cows on the back fields around southernyankeebelle Jun 2013 #31

talk to the county, or a lawyer. internet legal advice is always iffy due to local laws loli phabay Jun 2013 #32

Good solution. I don't want any trouble either. His family owns lots of land. southernyankeebelle Jun 2013 #33

you could talk to him, draw up a land use lease that allows him to graze loli phabay Jun 2013 #34

If you're still paying the taxes on it and its still in the deed book in your name, then its yours. 1-Old-Man Jun 2013 #36

Yes we are still paying the taxes on it. southernyankeebelle Jun 2013 #37

I've been on both ends of this arrangement and thank you for bringing this up and doing this. uppityperson Jun 2013 #35

Sounds good, but ... david13 Jun 2013 #38