The ones I've been seeing are averaging $8,000
That's it, awesome to shoot 90 lb deer! I am gonna write a check tomorrow!
Tell your friend he can make alot of trips to GA, buy an out of state license ($295), get on a lease ($800), hunt GA WMA's with very little regulation and long seasons (Free), Gas, let's say ($1000) for 10 trips -weekends back and forth, hotel and food, lets say another ($2000) for 10 trips -weekends (2 nights hotel per trip) and he'd have ($3500-$4000) left over at the end of the season.
$8000 ASKING price for a Lykes lease, yeah right, they've lost there damm minds......
There's plenty who pay $11,000 too. Haha it's the convenience of being 1.5 hours from the gate man. I can sure appreciate that. I know realistically I wouldnt be making more than 1-2 trips up to GA if I had a lease and was driving from Miami!
I checked around too and found it hard to justify such high price.
I was looking at it in long term view and realized that if I join a lease for 5 years I would be $40k into it and at the end of 5 years all you have left is memories. For a little more than $40k you can buy a small property where you can hunt and grow vegetables and flowers, ride ATV, etc. so that's what I did. We found a 11+ acre in a ideal location off a dirt road but still within 2 hour drive from my house. It ain't a large spread but ther's enough space to do everything we want. Somewhere down the road we may build a house on it but for now it's our little "farm".
If you had $11K to drop on a lease, you could buy 100 acres in GA for $1000-1500 an acre ($150K) and have your own private place. The corporate boys are paying that kinda of money for a lease with a company check, not out of there own pocket!
For me GA (Savannah is 3 1/2 hrs) and well worth the drive up there. I just found 101 acres with a newer (2008) double wide on it 50 miles south of Augusta GA, about 6 hours from my house in Orlando with an asking price of $149. Could probably buy it for $125!
KC-your 11 acres sounds awesome, and you actually own something... There isn't a lease in the world worth more than $1500 a year just for access....
