greybeard
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Or, get 3WayCross to direct his sister's Mal Occhio your neighbor's direction..
highgrit":2i0hwyne said:Dun has a good idea. At the very least I would tell him that's a pretty chicken crap way to treat a neighbor. And then give him his money.
skyhightree1":2f7xtjv5 said:I honestly had never heard of sharing a well.
Alan":w50zmkg0 said::lol: :lol: :lol: That's the best suggestion yet Dave. :lol: While I have never been out to bouy 10 I've heard the stories.
Dave for the land lovers here correct me if I get something wrong since I have never been out to bouy 10. Bouy 10 is the bouy marker for the mouth of the Columbia river, red hot and popular salmon fishing in the fall. It's out past the jetty's and in open water, but between the tides, Columbia and the bar it's gets pretty nasty ........ If there was an accident and a neighbor would fall overboard.........
Alan":2fmdog18 said:We have been here at our place for almost 14 yrs, never a problem with the neighbors. We share a well with one neighbor, never has been a problem, split maintance cost on the well as per the written contract we have. A few years ago he and his wife were divorced, he continues to live on the property. With in the last couple of years he has a new girlfriend and plans on selling his place and moving to her acreage, he is now actively marketing his property. He approached me last summer and asked me to split the cost of a new well house with him, it's not a well house it's a 20x30 storage shed with the well inside. I explained to him that, that building is going to do nothing but increase the value of his property and give him additional storage, it has little benefit to us other than the little space it provides the well pump. So he agreed to put up the well house at his cost. Here's the problem, while doing the well house he decided to replace most of the outer works on the well, such as the pressure tank, pipes, wiring, swithches, etc. He then left me a bill for half the cost of the tank and plumbing for almost $600 in our mail box, with a note stating our contract states we pay half the maintance, you need to pay this. He never spoke to us first before these other upgrades on the well. I don't seem to be cooling down about this after a couple of weeks and I do need to talk to him, but still red hot. The way I see it is, he's trying to sell his place and decided to update the well as a added benifit to his selling price and to the buyer without consulting me. I'm not as concerned about the cost of maintaining the well as the way he did it....
I'm venting and need a sounding board, I really think I he did us wrong.
Celtic Cowman":3nd8cruk said:I too would hesitate to share a well but our situations as far as water depth are hugely different!
I gotta break with the group and say that a totally upgraded outer works, with all the work done and no problems and extra charges may be good value and would be huge piece of mind. How the guy went about it may or may not be too forthright, but an investment in your primary water supply would rarely be poorly spent money.