That's a tough one. I have been on the other side of that coin. I purchased land 5 years ago that had belonged to an elderly lady and was rented for decades by a local farmer. My acreage was maybe 10% of his total farmed land. The estate had tried to get him to buy it, but he declined. Same with the neighbors. I spent two years off and on working a deal with the estate until I finally bought the place. Tough negotiations. I let the tenant stay on the place for three years, but I did raise his rent from the 1970's era amount he was paying. Third year I took one field and did it myself. Next year I took the rest of it over. We parted friends and I could call him tomorrow and he would be out in the Spring if I decided to stop. I was not thrilled with putting him off land his family had farmed for so long but times had changed, and a new generation with bigger equipment was having trouble working around my old tree lines. Took some heat from the neighbors but that has settled down. Actually had a guy stop by a few weeks back said "thank God you bought this place...".
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