One other thing. Recent residents have civil recourse against any real estate agent who failed to disclose this nuisance prior to sale. I would take a guess that houses for sale in that area are primarily shown on weekday evenings not on weekends.
I had a friend whose family owned an egg farm. They had 30,000 hens in a multistory building on 2 or 3 acres. In the 80s developers bought the other farms around and built high end houses. The houses were shown and sold primarily between November and March.
Then summer rolled around and the chicken farm started to stink like it had for the previous 60 years. People complained. They formed a group. They petitioned the town of Branford, CT to do something.
My friend's dad, being the savvy businessman that he was, asked to meet with the homeowner group. They agreed.
When they met, he showed them photos of the farm from the 1920s, along with all the farm land around it. He explained that the farm had been in the family for 60 years and that its size and intensity had remained constant for that time. In fact the coop was the same building his great great grandfather had built in the 1930s. He also emphasized that the smell was less than it had ever been since they had installed electric poop conveyors to bring the poop out and dump it into a pickup truck, which made daily runs to a vegetable farm in North Branford where it was sold as fertilizer.
This is where my friend's dad was brilliant. He explained that the nuisance of the farm predated their homes. He explained that he had a lot of money (the egg farm was only part of the small empire of businesses he owned) and lawyers on retainer and that he would defend the farm on principal, even if it was not worth the financial cost.
He then asked them if their R/E agents had disclosed this known nuisance to them when they were looking for a home. None of them had been informed. With that, he said that their beef was really with the real estate professionals who sold them the homes, not him.
With that, he pulled out a $15,000 check from his pocket (decent money back in the early 80s) and offered that if they agree to cease hostilities against him, he would provide initial funding of a lawsuit against the developer and its listing agents. They took the check and his problems disappeared.
Brilliant huh?
Don
p.s. But again this is not the case here, as far as I can tell. The analogy here would be my friend's 30,000 chickens are suddenly expanded to 120,000 chickens and a galvanizing plant.
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Hello Everyone, thank you for concern. I am going to try to keep this simple. We as a family want everyone to know that we agree that this "agreement" isn't fair. We don't think that we should be limited to OUR time to shoot, when our neighbors can shoot any day and any time they want. We are trying to keep our calm but it's hard at this time. We will be putting a petition together. Also if anyone has ideas to help such as meet as a group let me know ASAP. We need to help my grandfather. Thank you!
I don't think anyone things your time should be limited.
The issue should be WHO shoots and why. (Paid training by 3rd parties is clearly commercial for example)