Trying to get away from leasing and the trouble of having to find land to lease.
The obvious alternative in many parts of the U.S. is public land. Getting it takes political skills and you can't count on having the land forever. The two clubs I fly at in the Wash D.C. area fly on public land. On one of them the County gov't also provides the porta-potty, mowing, and driveway maintenance.
The downside is we have to live with plane-eating trees!
