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"Welcome to Outdoors Owners Network"
Network Overview It's a Hunt Club...plus a Whole Lot More The Outdoor Owners Network is a new company organized with the purpose of sharing private rural land for sportsmen's recreational use. The members are both landowners AND non-landowners. The primary purpose of the Network is to improve access to quality hunting property. As we grow, however, we intend to provide access to pretty much any outdoor activity you can think of, from floating an Ozark stream to operating deep sea charters. Future plans even include an opportunity for property ownership for all non-landowner members! We plan to provide all you've ever wanted in an outdoor experience from one service. We anticipate our company will most directly complete with other hunt clubs. It will also pull from a range of outdoor oriented markets including hunting lease arrangements, hunting and fishing outfitter services, corporate retreats, and maybe even some of the timeshare resort industry. Reservations are Simple, Easy, and Fair for All MembersLandowners receive "credits" based on the value of their property. Non-landowners may become members by purchasing "lifetime credits" in the Network. The members have access to all of the Network's property through a reservation system that is based on the use of member owned credits. The reservations are set up in three or four day blocks. Check-in and check-out days and times will always be on Mondays and Fridays at noon. Peak demand reservations will be auctioned off through the Bid on This page on this site to ensure a fair system for booking these times. The credits renew annually and are deposited in the member’s account every year on January 1st. Non-landowner credits will also carry forward to future years allowing you to accumulate them for future use. There also is a credit rental program that allows members to potentially profit from their membership in the Network by renting their credits to other Network users. We Do All the WorkManagement of the company will primarily strive to maintain a proper balance of property and people. We'll operate and maintain the reservation system and lodging accommodations. Improving the quality of wildlife habitat, especially for whitetail deer, will also be a top priority for us. A two dollar ($2.00) property management fee will be assessed per credit booked through the reservation system for these services. We'll do our best to work with property owners to allow us to emphasize what's best for the recreational use, such as leaving standing crops for wildlife.We plan to provide a wide range of sleeping accommodations at each site. These should range from rustic tent-only campsites to luxury full services lodges. A reasonable lodging charge (i.e. $10.00 per night for campsites with a tent) will also be collected when reservations are made. We'll provide all the resources for a great hunt/trip including: topo maps and aerial photographs; patterning the game and suggestions on how to hunt them; setting up well placed stand sites; utilizing trail cameras so you know what's on specific properties; and a lot more. By combining resources with other outdoorsmen, you're ability to hunt trophy deer and other game will significantly increase.All property in the Network will have reasonable regulations enforced by us to ensure proper management. These rules will cover a range of areas from quality deer management to cleanliness. Our focus will be to ensure every person using the Network will have an equal opportunity to enjoy it, whether it's on the first day of the season or the last. It's About Privacy & SustainabilitySportsmen prefer a private place where they are able to fully enjoy the outdoors without the worry of bumping into others on public land. Hunting leases provide this benefit, and are great, but they are typically renewed on an annual basis. Hunters who manage leased property themselves for wildlife, and are successful at improving the habitat, have likely also increased the value of the lease, potentially costing them more later! We believe our approach will provide benefits to landowners on a larger scale that will help control long term cost increases. The natural demand market will dictate those cost increases as we successfully improve the quality of their property. Our long range goal is to provide shared ownership in land to non-landowners. Leasing land was a strange notion 20 years ago in the days when knocking on doors and a hand shake were all you needed to hunt on quality private land. Today, hunting leases are standard across the industry, but they also bring uncertainty to the sport. We believe a more sustainable view of the future of the sport will need to include pooling resources with other outdoorsmen that should help stabilize costs of land access in the long run. This will lead deeper into the conservation and preservation of land, and your ability to hunt and enjoy the outdoors for generations ahead. Even if you can afford it, a lot of outdoorsmen and women don't want the responsibility of owning your own land. If you can count on both hands the number of days you're able to spend in the woods, does a substantial investment in exclusive ownership make sense? Shared ownership is a logical choice for most outdoorsmen without the headache, or at least concern, of renegotiating leases annually.
Please visit their website for full details of this great opportunity.
OUTDOOR OWNERS NETWORK, LLC
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