At this month's Tate County Planning Commission meeting, the Director of Planning mentioned he had been getting several complaints about the condition of a particular neighborhood. Someone is trying to sell a piece of property in this neighborhood and has complained about the overgrown yards, debris and junk on neighboring properties. I am very familiar with the property he was talking about because I had it listed a couple of years ago and had several buyers walk away due to the condition of the neighborhood.
Now, this property is in an area with almost no restrictions. I also live in an area of Tate County with minimal restrictions and it got me to thinking about property owner's rights. My husband is a "gearhead" (likes to work on cars) and so is his brother & dad. We all live on the same street. We do have several (probably more than that) junk cars and parts of cars. We have them in an area that can't be seen from the road. If you can see them, then you are not where you should be. Before we moved them; however, they were in our front yard.
If someone from the county had come to us and demanded that we move them or (gasp) remove them, my husband would have had a fit. A lot of people move out to a rural area so they can do what they want on their own land. From a rural property owner's point of view, I don't want the county telling me what to do or not do on my land but it does present a challange when you are trying to sell.
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Pam Simpson is an Assoc. Broker with Bob Leigh & Associates, LLC in Northwest MS.
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