When you own a beautiful piece of land, you often get asked by sportsmen if they can hunt or fish on your property. Some farmers and ranchers grow to dread the question. They want to share the bounty of their land, but they also want to know who is using it. Will the visitors be respectful? Will they obey the guidelines and clean up after themselves?
Because he wasn’t sure about the answers to these questions, Nebraska farmer Eugene Holmberg stopped sharing his land. “An outfitter brings guys in, and you never know who’s there,” he says. “They have control of your property.” That’s a key reason he now books through LandTrust.com. “I like getting to know them before they come. I know who’s here.”
With LandTrust.com, landowners decide who can visit and when, and they set the rules for everything from group size to parking locations to which access road to use. LandTrust.com takes care of finding the right people willing to pay the landowner’s price.
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Vetting Your Visitors
LandTrust.com has developed a system to help protect landowners from unwanted guests. The vetting system includes:
ID verification. Before guests can make a booking request with a landowner, their identities are verified. Many landowners have complained that before listing through LandTrust.com, they didn’t know anything about the sportsmen who knocked on their doors or who booked through other organizations.
Pre-booking communication. Landowners can get to know the sportsmen on the LandTrust.com platform during the inquiry process before accepting the booking request. Rules for the visit can be explained again, and the visit can be declined for any reason.
LandTrust.com monitoring. The customer success team at LandTrust actively monitors all conversations happening on the platform between landowners and sportsmen. By monitoring this communication, the team can note any red flags that suggest the sportsmen might not meet LandTrust.com community standards and will notify the landowner. They can also ban anyone who doesn’t meet their standards of respectful sportsmen.
Upfront payment. Because the entire booking fee is paid before the visit, sportsmen place higher value on the opportunity to access the land.
Post-visit ratings. Through LandTrust.com’s transparent, two-way rating system, landowners and sportsmen can communicate any issues about the experience. Groups that don’t follow the rules or disrespect the property are quickly identified. These reviews are posted on the platform so landowners can read them before accepting a booking.
Landowners will be happy to know that 99% of reviews are positive, which shows the vetting system is working well.
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