Healthy widow, 60+ has 10 acres to share with right woman, man, or couple. On state hwy., free land to put your mobile home , grow food, have pets and other animals....located near Tenn. River, 20 miles from Savannah, Tenn. Great opportunity for someone who wants to homestead, garden, with country privacy , just for help caring for the yard and being a good neighbor to be there in case of emergency and we will be helpful to each other ..... free to do as you wish on the land. No alcahol or drug or abusive problems. You must buy your mobile home but I will have the gas, water, and elec. run to it. This is a platonic offer only, not looking for romance, just affer to help someone who would be a friend and good neighbor. No restrictions so many possibilities for various business here on the highway. Interested? Contact me at angelinwaiting59@yahoo.com

Thanks for your time.... Barbara

-- Barbara Martin (angelinwaiting59@yahoo.com), October 10, 2001

Answers

Be very, very careful on who you choose. Once there, and it doesn't work out, it will be extremely difficult to get rid of them.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), October 10, 2001.

Read my mind Ken . . . and also don't forget that those utilities you mention will require meters for each of them, so include that in the cost. A foundation system or slab would probably be required for the trailer. If livestock were included, might be some fencing involved too.

Other than those cautions, bless you for giving someone the chance to get "beyond the sidewalks". I hope you find a good tenant soon.

-- j.r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), October 10, 2001.

Ken is right. Even though this will be 'free' you should still run a credit bureau check and have a police criminal records check done. If there's ANY hesitancy on the part of an applicant about something like this, move on. The reason for the police check should be obvious. The credit check will give you an idea how the applicants take care of their responsibilities. I hate to sound so negative here, but it's better to be safe than sorry. I'd even suggest you have an attorney prepare your agreement for you so every potential problem is likely covered. I hope this helps.

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), October 10, 2001.

Barbara - do let us know how this works out for you! We have considered a similar arrangement for our place in MO - we have 160 acres but the various concerned mentioned here held us back! It is a wonderful opp. both for you and the right person/couple if the "match" is right for all involved. would definitely get an attorney to at least reduce your agreement into a formal signed document for everyone's protection (witnessed and notarized) With the current situation, this might be a good time to find someone. Best of luck. Keep us posted with the "rights" and the "wrongs" - and why you rejected certain applicants!

-- Dottie Shafer (shaferd@msn.com), October 10, 2001.

Your the kind of person I would be glad to call a friend. This offer is very generous. Good luck. Someone out there has a guardian angel.

-- Dwight (SUMMIT1762@AOL.COM), October 10, 2001.

This string is very depressing. It is a wonderful offer. But, what a shame that so many of us have felt it necessary to warn about the dangers and advise that attorneys should be involved. Yeah, I know, it is good advice but I sure wish that it wasn't like that. Reality, sometimes I could do without it. Barbara, I hope that you can find the right person to share your land with. Good luck, and please let us know when this turns out good for you.

-- Doug in KY (toadshutes@yahoo.com), October 11, 2001.

Please remember, Barbara, that you can't be careful enough with strangers. Check them out, and check them again before you commit to anything. We have a duplex and a house that we rent, and we have to be extremely careful about checking out references. One set of former tenants we had, two women with the children of one of them, rented the house under false pretenses. After they moved in, we discovered they had falsified their application and gave us the names of deceased persons as references. It took us 5 months to get them evicted, and when they left, they owed $5,200 in back rent and late fees, did $10,000 to $12,000 in property damage, and stole almost $1,500 of property from the premises (65 light bulbs, 3 smoke detectors, 2 shelves from the closets, the shower curtain rod and curtain, 2 shower heads from the two bath areas, several 4x4 plastic tiles from the bathroom walls, and other household items). The day after we got them moved out, the light company came to remove the meter from the house because they hadn't paid the light bill and owed over $1,800, and we discovered at that time that they had attempted to defraud the utility company, too, but the fact that we called the utility and gave them the names of the authorized renters saved the utility the headache of trying to figure out who held the lights.

-- Claudia Glass (glasss2001@prodigy.net), October 11, 2001.