Lease Agreements
Does anyone else still do a verbal lease agreement?
Got one on pasture lease as a landowner.
I look at the pasture lease agreements online and the number of clauses can get crazy or ridiculous. Seems crazy that pasture leases are more complicated than farmland leases that are straight up cash leases.
Hunting rights, recreational use, fence management, electricity,..... A lease agreement for simple pasture land looks like it can get crazy. Maybe I'm overthingking it.
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I am not a lawyer, but if it was me, I would do a written lease simply for liability purposes, especially if it was huntable land. I would put that only the lessee and maybe immediate family members were allowed to be on it for hunting or recreational purposes. If someone is hunting/riding atv's on your land and has a serious accident, they will have lawyers looking for anyone and everyone to sue.
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An old lawyer told me -If it aint in writing,it aint.
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An old lawyer told me -If it aint in writing,it aint.
Exactly right. Courts look at what they call "the four corners" of the contract. Another words what is in writing is what the court will look at if there is a dispute.
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I worked around the county court house for years.....there were always folks trying to get lease issues straightened out....
And as said above if it ain't in Writing......and even if it is sometimes it takes court proceedings to make someone live up to their responsibilities....
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No.........a man's word isn't worth a wad a used chewing tobacco nowadays. Written or it doesn't happen.
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Put it in writing. If they don't agree to the terms... find someone else
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I have a really tough "pre-lease" form I require all interested concerns fill out. Amazing how this filters the good ones out.
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