Originally Posted by tbarnhartpga

I am looking for some advice with the following situation.

This past week I fulfilled my dream to purchased my own hunting farm (122 acres in Lewis Co. KY). I was extremely excited and felt that I got a great deal on the land. There is a history of great deer, trail cam pics and the main selling point of the farm is that it is bordered a large landowner that has over 1700 managed acres. The day after I purchased the property, I found out that this large landowner is putting up an 8 foot fence around his entire property. That means that 70% of my property (over 1.5 miles - my property is wide and skinny in depth) is now going to have a high fence running alongside it on three sides basically caging me in except for my road frontage. My great hunting property, one day after purchase is now essentially worthless for deer hunting as the main travel route is from my property to the large landowner. With his property having the majority of the bedding area.

I contacted the local sherriff and he told me that there is no fence height restriction. And if he does fence in the entire property, he even gets to keep the deer on the land. I also contacted the local game warden and he told me basically the same thing, however he is checking with the state department.

I also contacted the real estate company (Whitetail Properties) and they claim to have known nothing about the landowner putting up a high fence. However, the price reductions and aggressively closing schedule seems to me that the owner knew this was going to happen. (I won't name him..but the seller that I purchased from is a well known person in the hunting industry so I think it would be hard for him to not have known this was coming and the reason why he wanted to unload this great piece of land (at least it was great until last week)).

I just found this out on Friday afternoon so I'm still working to secure a real estate attorney. I've also tried to contact the large landowner several times but cannot reach him to see what his plan is and why he is doing this. Below are some questions that I was hoping someone could help with.

Questions...
1. Does anyone know the fence height restriction to put up a boundary fence? Seems that 8 foot is a barrier to stop game movement and should not be permitted. (I am still unsure if he is just putting this up around my portion or if he is fencing the entire property)

2. If he does fence the entire property, wouldn't he have to "drive" the native deer from the land prior to fencing it in? That's what I always thought but the game warden seemed to think he gets to keep the deer.

3. How am I going to be able to prove that the seller had knowledge of this happening but did not disclose it to me prior to me purchasing the land?

4. Any other advice would be appreciated!

I'm hoping there is some remedy for my situation or I may just be the unluckiest sucker in the world. This situation has my stomach in knots and the excitement feeling has turned into disgust.

Thanks for your time!