JasperFrank
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How one designs their rural property is key. We can't predict the future, but there are things one can do. For instance, it was a hard learned lesson that we should have set the house much further back from the easement road. When I got the property in '94, there were very few other persons on this road. So, maybe, 6 cars a day going past the drive way. And some days, no cars at all. I never imagined more than this. Yet now, there are well over 40 cars a day on a gravel road.... lots of dust, and each year it just gets more traffic and more dust. The prevailing winds were once mitigated by a mature forest, that I had an understanding with the owner, that he was doing select cut, and that this was his business plan to pass down to his sons. That didn't work out as, when he passed away, one of the sons did a clear cut and changed that all up, then divided the property up into lots. I did not think this was even possible, given Oregon's F2 forestry and land use laws. Land Use Laws mean nothing. And if your view is spectacular, which ours was, understand the trees you own and the ones you do not. We have no view now as my, lower on the hill, new, neighbor, from California, doesn't what to cut any trees: And that is their right, even after I offered to pay for their trees at market value to improve the value of our property. I had an agreement with the older owner, One of the few people up the hill I liked, since we built our houses at the same time, and shared tools. The understanding was that I would hold off on cutting trees down, cause his wife, that had cancer, loved walking in that area, very near to their pet cemetery. Me cutting, would have messed this up. He died very soon after she did, ending our verbal agreement about cutting and creating a view again for us. The kids, just sold that property off, to the new Californians. So verbal agreements mean nothing. This is rural living.