OT- Land lease question

You have some rights in this. Certainly worth persuing. I would.

Beyond that, would need to know the state you live in for the exact rights. In many cases you would have the right to farm 1 more year if you had a contract after Sept of the previous year - this is a legal contract & was sold along with the property. It was for the buyer to be aware of it, title searches & such - if they didn't bother, still their fault.

As to the remaining 4 years of your contract, or if push comes to shove who you need to push for damages (seller or buyer) that will probably need real legal experts to get any meaningful opinion.

For some ideas from farmers who run into this more, you could try posting on http://talk.newagtalk.com

Ultimately, internet help is only some opinions & 'I heard this' stuff. You'll need a real lawyer on this, I'm sure you know that & are just looking for opinion.

Good luck with it, you are getting the short end and need to go get what is yours on this. They are cheating you, and law has been on your side in the past. It's up to you to collect on it.

--->Paul

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"Disputes that come up every year in Indiana and, I'm sure, across the country, are that new farmland owners think they bought a farm free of the lease -- or the farm goes into an estate and maybe the heirs don't want the current tenant. The fact of the matter is a lease is good against a decedent's estate or a new owner, if indeed a tenant has a valid lease. Many times, particularly in oral leases, a tenant has a right to a notice to terminate, and December or January of a current crop year is probably too late for a timely notice to quit."