I have a friend in South Montgomery County who leased approx. 2000 acres to a rich Florida hunter from Tampa. The hunter is too old to fly up and hunt and he gave up the lease. I'm helping my buddy decide on a lease price per acre for about ten hunters (friends) that will hunt this land. It has a two bedroom camp on the property and a stocked 10 acre pond that is on the property line that is shared with the adjoining landowner.

24/7 365 access. Property is diversified land and NOT a 2000 acre pine plantation. It has been managed and actually, not enough deer have been harvested off property.

Fair price per acre?

$20-30/acre would be likely

I call dibs for showing this one to Zach.

Paging Zach; Zach to the land and leases forum please...

I leased a place very similar to that in South Montgomery County near Ramer from 2000-2007. I paid $10 per acre at that time.

Hey 3FFarms, it's landlocked from the river so Zach wouldn't want it! Ha.

Besides, it's not for lease... the landowner wants to keep it amongst his friends and now that he's retired, he wants to do a little hunting on it too. It's not a good club piece of land as it's going to be hunted by family of owner. The Tampa dude leased it for himself with the understanding that my buddy's kids could hunt it. Anyway...

Even with a camp it should not be more than $15 per acre. You can still find leases around there in the $10-$12 per acre range.

We have a tract in south Montgomery county without a camphouse that is $12, so I would say $15.

Good enough... thanks to everyone who provided opinions.

$12 land plus club house about $3 so $15 total

A 2,000 acre tract in S Montgomery county with a camp house, pond, and turkey rights could very easily bring more than $15/acre.

EASILY! Would just have to be marketed right. But all land is worth whatever someone is willing to pay. At this point, I wouldn't pay $2/acre for any land while I know some folks that don't blink at paying $20/acre.

That property could sell for $6 million, depending on timber.

What part of south Montgomery

There are some places in So.Montgomery I wouldn't lease from...but others offer unbelievable hunting. Depends on location in guess.
Ramer for example, is full of outlaws.

Glad to have one less Floridian leasing in south Montgomery county

Seems pretty simple to me. First, that's a great hunter/acre ratio so shouldn't have too much trouble leasing it. If your buddy was leasing it to the FL guy, he knows what the land is fetching. Just put it out there for what he was leasing it for unless it was just an insanely low price. Most land in S. Montgomery has great hunting and I'd love to have 2000 acres with a pond to hunt and fish.

2000 acres at $12/acre is 24K. $2400/member plus a little extra for planting. Start asking much more than that and either you will have people killing everything to justify their investment or some of the best members a club could have.

Dr. B

Don't know if you're joking about the outlaw thing or not. There's outlaws everywhere, but probably less in my area near Ramer than most places due to the fact that it's just about all closely watched private land

Half joking I guess. One of my friends FIL who lives in Ramer killed a monster buck off the road at night. 150" plus. Him and his group of friends were terrible poachers, and would brag nonstop about their deeds. Samson was his last name is think. Tried to get my friend to night hunt with him, but he wouldn't do it.

I know a large S Montgomery county landowner that gets around $17-18/acre for similar set ups.

To each his own, but I will not lease from a landowner who wants to also hunt the property. Too many ways that can go wrong. Your friend can find hunters willing to lease under those terms, but they will likely expect a discounted rate for not getting exclusive hunting rights.