The Easiest Way to Set Up a Hunting Lease
This goes with an article I wrote a while back on 3 steps to finding a hunting lease. These are the things I do and constantly in order to find access or an actual lease. I recently secured a lease and want to share a couple notes in finalizing your next years memories in the field.
Hunting Lease – Seal the DEAL!
Good News! – Now that you have put in the work in actually finding a landowner to agree to let your hunt, the actual lease and liability paperwork is very easy. Knowing that the step of getting liability insurance can actually help you in sealing the deal with landowner as well. I have have multiple conversations with landowners who are afraid of the liability piece and just do not want to deal with letting hunters on their land.
American Hunting Lease Association – Easy setup of Liability and Hunting Lease
From experience – you can really put a landowner at ease AND put yourself ahead of all the other hunters who have asked to hunt a property by showing them they are protected. American Hunting Lease Association (ALHA) even has a front porch kit, which gives you sample Lease paperwork and liability insurance coverages to prove how they would be protected. This builds trust right away!
Once the landowner agrees, the rest is easy and can be done all online within a matter of minutes. Here is the link to get a quote for the insurance and build your lease document.
- The first step is to sign up for the insurance.
- The second step is to prepare the lease which is easy to build right inside of your ALHA account. They have made it so easy by just filling in a few details and you have a lease that has been proven for over 15 years!
- Finalize the agreement! You’re done. Hunters and Landowners sign the agreement and you are set.
My Story – ALHA Review
I am constantly looking, asking and writing letters to find land to hunt or access to land. The work never stops. With my move to NC, I has the same approach to finding hunting land as in the Midwest. Using all the tools listed above, calling, writing letters and simply not settling. I came across a lot of landwners hesitant to grant hunting access due to liability and poor experiences with hunters in the past. The liabilty is put to ease if you can get to the tools in front porch kit and show ALHA hunters insurance policies and the lease template. I did recently ask my personal insurance agent I use for vehicle and home insurance about hunters / leasing hunting land insurance. He pointed me right to American Hunting Lease Association. Just another note to really seal the seal the deal.
One other note that I thought was easy for landowners. Once the landowner agrees to let you hunt, the hunter still does most of the work (maybe 15 minutes) signing up for the insurance through ALHA and drafting the lease from their template. All that’s left is for both hunter and landowner to sign and date.
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