New Land Question
 

My fiancee and I are purchasing some land. This will be our home (once we build) and hunting land. The land is heavily posted by the current owners. However, walking the property it appears that the neighbors are taking full advantage of the owners not living on the property. There are treestands everywhere. Some wooden built and some metal portable. If you were purchasing this land what would you do about the stands?

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put up new datedsigns. probably neighbors taking advantage of old owners. the stands will probably disapear, if not they come with the property

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If they are there when you buy the land then they are your property as far as I am concerned. I would just remove all of them and see who comes to try to get them back. Then you can be nice and say you thought they were the old land owners and hopefully start a good relationship with your new neighbors.

That is all assuming that they are not the current land owners' stands of course.

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The current land owners don't hunt that I know of. I am pretty sure its the neighbors taking advantage of the land. Its a nice chunk 45.5 acres that is in the middle of some houses. Very easy for people to sneak on, especially when the owners are never there checking on it.

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Put up new posted signs about every 30 yards and go knocking on some neighbor doors. Introduce yourself as the new owner who would like stands gone or you'll take them down. Some neighbor knows who they belong to. Heck, the owner of the property might know who's they are. Set the ground rules early..... long before the season starts. I'd have them out of there by the end of spring. I'd do some snooping and patrolling and politely ask people to please not traspass. It's a small place and you bought it for your hunting pleasure.

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Congrats to you! Where in upstate NY? Just curious if I've met you before?

I ran into the same problem in PA on my property. I posted the property line every 30 yards or so, and in addition to this Iattached signs to the trees that the trespassers stands were in. Went back in 3 months with intentions of removing the stands and attaching notes with my contact info if they wanted them back, butall but the permanentstands were gone after that. I still have trespassers on the property, but not frequently at all and only in gun season. I'm probably going to have to prosecute a few of them to really get all trespassing stopped, hopefully by next year.

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Some very good grey haired advice.Grey hairs often come from learning things the hard wayand makes them worth listening to that much more.

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Rick James, I don't think I've ever met you but I am from just south of Albany about 10 miles or so. My hopefully to be property is out in Warners Lake. With the snow there is a ton of deer activity and I'm hoping to put a stop to the tresspassing as soon as we close. Nodog and Davidmil have a good idea. I want to stop the tresspassing without pissing people off.

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If you buy it, consider all those goodies as bonuses. Put up a few new signes and enjoy your new prizes.;)

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Dont worry about a tresspassers feelings. They are scum to start with. Pleasing them is like trying to grab a turd by the clean end. I take great pride in Pissing off tresspassers on my land, even to the point of blocking their escape until the law can get there. I have no use for a P.O.S. tresspasser.

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"Dont worry about a tresspassers feelings. They are scum to start with. Pleasing them is like trying to grab a turd by the clean end. I take great pride in Pissing off tresspassers on my land, even to the point of blocking their escape until the law can get there. I have no use for a P.O.S. tresspasser. "

That's great. I just don't want to get in a situation where someone would feel the need to tamper with stands or what not.

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I know this area VERY well. I havea ton of friends in the East Berne area and I shoot a LOT down that way at the Archery Barn right off Helderberg Trail. I have also have looked for property in this area, my girlfriend (soon to be fiance if I'm lucky [8D]) and I both hope to move to this area and build in a few years when we sell our current place. She's a kindergarten teacher in Schoharie, and the Berne area is perfect for both of us.

We should stay in touch and maybe go to some 3D shoots this summer? Let me know if your ever interested!

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As was mentioned before I would make an effort to introduce myself to as many neighbors as possible, letting them know you will be posting the land, and if they know anybody who has a treestand on the property to please remove it by some reasonable time frame. You never know who has permission to hunt even when things are posted, ie someone's brother in law, etc.

Also be prepared for some people to ask permission to hunt on your property.

Lastly, I would be there for the land survey if possible as well.

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[blockquote]Matt/ Rick James- Yeh I would definitely be in for a 3d shoot sometime. The course that my brother and I used to shoot occasionally closed. That area out there is awesome. I grew up in the "low lands" of the area but venture out there often. My fiancee is a school teacher at Ravena and teaches 9-10 grade english. She actually got into target shooting and then hunting this year and took a huge doe with the shotgun. By the way my name is Josh. Nice to meet someone from the area.

C-str, while doing our initial walk of the property the realtor found all of the corner posts in the ground and the property is enclosed in a stone wall. It's very easy to tell where the line is. [/blockquote]

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:DPost of the day!

Steve

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When my uncle bought his land we had the same problem. 1st thing we did was fix the fence, replaced any bad post, restrung wire and hung signs about every 20-30 yards. Next we took out all stands and hung sings on the trees that we took the stands out of. We also put a gate up with a lock just to finish the look of "your not welcome here". The thing that really stopped people is when the 1st year he owned it we showed up for opening day of gun season, and stayed until it was over. That was when the locals decided to find a new place to hunt.

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id keep em

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i would just take them they should not be on my property putting there stuff up for me to use and/pr take