I have one guy sign the lease agreement and what he does after that’s on him but his butts on the hook for any and all issues should any arise. I’ve never had a issue other than a few being slow to pay at times so make sure the main man’s a good one and you’ll be fine.

My take after dealing with it in various ways is to eliminate me having to deal with a bunch of different people, if they have a problem they go to man #1, if I have a problem I go to man #1, if man #1 has a problem he can’t resolve we all have a problem.

For those land owners who lease for deer: Do you have only the main contact person sign the lease agreement, or do you have each person on the lease sign it?

I’ve never been on a lease with a “lease boss” we always had our individual handshake with the owner. Never had a single problem that way.

Does the owner charge you a certain amount per person or a certain amount for the place? If the owner is charging a certain amount per person they basically are acting like the lease boss dealing with everyone and collecting the money. That is fine but is a lot more work for the landowner.

You run into the age old problem like when three college buddies rent a house and they each pay $500/month towards the $1,500 rent. Joe and Bob have their $
500 this month but Steve doesn’t. If the owner has a deal with Joe that the rent is $1,500 he is getting $1,500 or he can kick them all out. If he has individual deals with the three of them it looks like Steve is getting the boot but the owner is only getting $1,000 until a new third person is found.

"However, I have a power line crossing my land with 2 unlocked gates. I’m not allowed to lock or control access on those. I have no idea how to protect myself from injuries sustained by trespassers under the Attractive Nuisance situations."

How come or why no locks on your 2 gates? Does not seem right to me. Gates would be plastered with signs and cameras

Dave Davidson

The unlocked gate situation is BS, whoever’s telling you it can’t be locked is an idiot. We have numerous power lines running through property and every carrier has their own locks attached to our locks and we have 4 different companies in 2 states. I wouldn’t have an unlocked gate if Jesus himself owned the land around me because I’m not concerned with him, I’m concerned with who they give access to their property that might opt to wander around through an unlocked gate and then who’s to blame? You are because your going to get the “Well I Didn’t Know” excuse because the gate was unlocked. That’s not happening without cutting a fence or lock off period on us.

As far as everyone signing a waiver that comes through the gate, that papers worth about as much as toilet paper if something should happen because a first year lawyer could wipe the floor with it unless somethings recently changed. It’s more of a make everyone feel all warm and bubbly document until something bad happens and the POS that got hurt decides to blame you for their own bad decisions and sue. If your concerned about accidents regardless who they are just take out a insurance policy, there pretty cheap.

From everything you said the biggest concern I’d have was letting people use your equipment on your land, that’s got disaster written all over it if they get hurt on it and your not insured. I let people use our stuff but I’m insured through the roof with various policy’s these days. We had that issue many moons ago and it ended up costing a fortune over a mechanical issue and the operator not skilled enough to overcome the situation. In short we have to cover our rears and it’s sucks we have to be worried about so called friend coming after us for letting them on our land but people suck these days and so many want a quick paycheck. It’s sad,,