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Offer them 4x the money....stinks but is reality.
-------------------- "Earth has no sorrow which Heaven cannot heal...." - Baptist Minister Posts: 1285 | From: Pennsylvania | Registered: Jan 2006
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Friend is spot on, We lost some ground in a very similar way after hunting it all our life. Funny thing is, the guy's that leased it without us knowing, lost it in the same manner a short two years later. (Poetic Justice)We took the high road and now have a chance to hunt it again.Funny thing about situation's like these, nothing's permanent. Things can change rather quickly, wise not to burn bridges that you may want to cross in the future.
Rod
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Maybe you can become friends with the guy that leased it and split the cost and work and make it a two man club if enough room.Kip
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Don't burn bridges with the SIL, call or write the landowner and ask for clarification in a non- threatening way and Pray!
In reality, I like the tenor of Friends response, but there are other good ones as well.
Posts: 693 | From: North Dakota | Registered: Aug 2006
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I've decided that I will write a letter to the land owner. This sunday I plan to stop at the SIL house and apologize for being caught off guard and have a contract and checkbook with me. Doubling his money for the next ten years will hopefully ring a bell to him and we can work a deal out. If not I will just say thank you for the years I had out here. If the lease doesn't work out you have my number and if there is anything I can do to help, just let me know. I went out yesterday and re marked all of the property lines for them and pulled the one stand I had on their place. I now plan to hang two on each end of the property line to try and intersect deer that use that little block of timber. The one stand was in a perfect spot where both trails converged in a natural funnel. Now i just have to hope that on any given morning I pick the right trail instead of having the trail market cornered like years past. Oh well what can you do Thanks for all of your help guys
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We love our farm and can not comprehend what life would be with out it. But what happened to Dustin is exactly why we own property. We went off half cocked and mad and a month later we were land owners.
That is what I recommend. Become a land owner. A lease is not forever, an agreement is not forever but ownership has it's previledges. You will be in charge of what food plots you plant. What kind of land management practices you want to tackle.
And at the end you might, "move to the country and eat a lot of peaches".
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