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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1657663" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>I try to take care of my leased land the same as if it was my own, and I've had most of my leases for many years, but for the most part, they've always been on a year to year basis. I will say, on one that I am hoping to buy someday soon (it's contiguous to my land)..., if it was mine already, I'd be working harder at clearing brush, etc. (it was badly overgrown when I took it over, and I've cleared maybe half of the worst brushy areas so far). I first started renting most of it about 8 years ago for cropland coming out of 20 years of CRP, lots of rocks, trees grown up in the field portions even, was pretty rough. Over time, I got the cropland much improved, spent about $3000 burying rocks, cleared a bunch of trees and leveled out the worst spots so it could be worked much more easily, then converted about 1/3 of the cropland to pasturing, including then some brushy wooded area that hadn't had anything done to it for 40 years. Cleared out the old fenceline, cleared an opening through the woods/swamp on the property line along DNR land (yeah... let's call that "completely abandoned land"), and put in all new fence, now working at clearing overgrown brush in/around the woods. But the more I do over there, the better it will look to "the competition" that I will have to compete with to buy it. So I'm not spending TOO much time on that clearing. We're kind of in negotiations on it though, so hopefully it will come through for me in the near future.</p><p></p><p>Would really not be much fun to have "paid" to do all that improving over the years, and then to have to PAY for it all again when it comes to buying the place! I could be working myself right out of it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1657663, member: 39018"] I try to take care of my leased land the same as if it was my own, and I've had most of my leases for many years, but for the most part, they've always been on a year to year basis. I will say, on one that I am hoping to buy someday soon (it's contiguous to my land)..., if it was mine already, I'd be working harder at clearing brush, etc. (it was badly overgrown when I took it over, and I've cleared maybe half of the worst brushy areas so far). I first started renting most of it about 8 years ago for cropland coming out of 20 years of CRP, lots of rocks, trees grown up in the field portions even, was pretty rough. Over time, I got the cropland much improved, spent about $3000 burying rocks, cleared a bunch of trees and leveled out the worst spots so it could be worked much more easily, then converted about 1/3 of the cropland to pasturing, including then some brushy wooded area that hadn't had anything done to it for 40 years. Cleared out the old fenceline, cleared an opening through the woods/swamp on the property line along DNR land (yeah... let's call that "completely abandoned land"), and put in all new fence, now working at clearing overgrown brush in/around the woods. But the more I do over there, the better it will look to "the competition" that I will have to compete with to buy it. So I'm not spending TOO much time on that clearing. We're kind of in negotiations on it though, so hopefully it will come through for me in the near future. Would really not be much fun to have "paid" to do all that improving over the years, and then to have to PAY for it all again when it comes to buying the place! I could be working myself right out of it! [/QUOTE]
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