Booting the tenant off

[OKdon]

I as reading a thread on Brand X forum and they were discussing cash rent. Some thought a greedy land owner was booting his tenant off the land because they were $25 per acre apart in their negotiation. Booting the tenant off was hardly the correct term because the farmer had the option to accept the higher terms. Tenant was acceptable but the offer was not.

I would define the term booting the tenant off as a refusal to allow the tenant to continue regardless of the terms. We negotiate all the time in our business world and a nonsuccessful transaction is no reason to disparage a non yielding landlord. He knows what offers he may have recieved and that may be driving his logic.  

BTW having a lease terminated is no cause for bad feelings. A land owner is well aware that a lease is a temporary agreement. Permanance can only be guaranteed by buying the land. Once you buy your own land you can expect to call the shots on who you will rent to and for whatever reason you choose.

[BA Deere]

Don, do you think maybe the tenants should hire the Teachers Union to negotiate with the landlords?

[OKdon]

Why would you do that?

[Kay/NC]

I may be wrong, but .i used to be a tracher, so I will take a shot at the reference: the teaching associations, ( National, Education Association, as one notable example), are extremely powerful political and lobbying grouos. When I taught, there was heavy pressure to firce teachers to join the " unified profession"...which then meant the LOCAL EA, the state EA, and the NEA.

I elected to pay only local dues, which secured tort insurance fkr me. The rest, I was not always comfortable with, on principle. If you look at the top five lobbying organizations in the US, teaching organizations are usually so ewhere in that rank, along with the NRA, NFIB, etc.