The more I thought about it and the more I read your comments, the more shocked by the audacity of the wealth management guy. I knew I would have to bring it to a close.
So, the WM guy was emailed and told that his ideas were not plausible, not only for the amount of disruption that we would end up with, which frankly was the main reason, but the drain on my power, that I pay for and in the end are responsible for. Other things that I was not willing to deal with would be if we were away and their use of gates, lights etc tripped my electrics and caused a power outage that would bring about the death of my livestock, also, if there was a problem with equipment, then they would need me to be there for electrical contractors to fix and for my power disrupted at the same time. If I was away and the gate failed, then no one would be able to reset and get them out, and these were just a few high hurdles that I was not willing to deal with or be exposed to. A single LED light would have been fine, but this, no, no and no!
He was polite about it, as he had to be as I am not beholden to him. He was told at the time that no one was going to do anything with the land, and if he wanted to fix it up then it was on his own head, and with as little disruption to everyone. In the UK (not sure if it is the same anywhere else) commercial rentals are the responsibility of the person who rents them, that is, decor, alterations, repairs etc., basically, whatever you want to do, you have to pay for, which he knew. He was given a rent-free period as he did quite a bit of work to get rid of the crap that was on the land and removal of a makeshift storage building. I say building with the loosest of definitions.
He has decided now to run the cabling from his building and will tarmac all the areas between his place and ours all the way to the rented area (which has a concrete floor), and “make it nice for you”. I think the use of “you” was his way of an apology for the messing about, but in the end, it will benefit him and his workers. The work will be done in March now.
One of the agreed parts is that they have not stuck to was that the areas gates had to be closed and locked every night. So far they have used it three times, twice I have locked it up, but this evening I came home to find it all open and decided screw this, so left it open. M thinks because I locked it all up the other two times that he has not realised that his staff have not done their job and by leaving it open will point to it not being locked and he will kick someone’s arse. I hope so!
Mr Knitter 