Why do you have to insist on a lease? We here in Clarksburg have had our field for over 30 years. It is a recovered coal strip mine on the top of a hill. We have no lease. What we do have is the good graces of the owner that has lasted over 30 years and 2 generations. There is another club in our area, Fairmont, that has the same arrangement and have been there almost as long.
WHEN it works... then not having a lease is OK...
When it doesn't:
http://www.268skykings.org/lost.htm
Without any warning, the owner of our field property has decided that we no longer have a flying field. Notices were posted sometime late yesterday stating that we are no longer allowed to use the property and that violaters will be prosecuted
No lease.. and one of the guys does some STUPID LITTLE THING that ticks the landowner off... your field is HISTORY. You could have been there 2 weeks or 20 years... No lease... its his land and he can boot you.