Getting permission scenario - What would you do?

[Frankn]

Well Look at it this way. Neither one of you have anything from that property now so set up an agreement with him for a 50/50 split. Hay if you found a jar with 4 $20 gold coins each of you would be over 2 grand grand ahead of the nothing before. Don't mention money when talking to him or greed will take over. Just offer the 50/50 split on any value found.
When I search a yard, I show a picture of previous finds in that area and offer a 50/50 split on anything of value found. The thing is be honest with him. It pays off in the long run. Frank...-

 

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[thebirdflu]

Thank you all for your comments. I think I'm going to give up on this property. There just isn't anything there for me to find. I will take piegrande's advice and tell the owner I don't want to dig deeper more noticeable plugs since he's trying to sell the place. I don't get much free time to detect so I don't want to waste it by digging up old nails etc.

To Tom_in_CA's point, I have had more success in 30s-50s homes and I have dug a few silvers there - my only ones to date. I just didn't get a good feeling from this one. I just started on a vacant lot yesterday. A quick hunt by the old clothesline gave up a 1929 wheat so this one shows some promise. I'm going to focus my time on this one for a little bit.

Thanks again everyone for your input. It really helps us greenhorns with the learning curve. I hope to gain some of the knowledge you have and be able to pass it along to the new members of this hobby.

thebirdflu

 

[BigWaveDave]

reading this.. I'm on the side of bailing.....lots of places to hunt, cant get them all, but why spend too much time on one spot

 

[Frankn]

Thank you all for your comments. I think I'm going to give up on this property. There just isn't anything there for me to find. I will take piegrande's advice and tell the owner I don't want to dig deeper more noticeable plugs since he's trying to sell the place. I don't get much free time to detect so I don't want to waste it by digging up old nails etc.

To Tom_in_CA's point, I have had more success in 30s-50s homes and I have dug a few silvers there - my only ones to date. I just didn't get a good feeling from this one. I just started on a vacant lot yesterday. A quick hunt by the old clothesline gave up a 1929 wheat so this one shows some promise. I'm going to focus my time on this one for a little bit.

Thanks again everyone for your input. It really helps us greenhorns with the learning curve. I hope to gain some of the knowledge you have and be able to pass it along to the new members of this hobby.

thebirdflu

Have you heard the expression "Sower Grapes"?
You have an opportunity to search an old lot that nothing has been found on and you back down! Hay, suppose the new owner stumbles into a fortune while planting some roses. How would you feel. When opportunity knock,answer! That house was around when people didn't trust banks, if there were any. That sure beats the hell out of a wheat! Just my opinion. Frank...-

 

[Boatlode]

Give him half of the $1.89 you found and ask him how much he wants for the property. Then watch him go out and buy a metal detector and dig up his whole yard thinking that something good is buried there that you didn't tell him about.

That'll teach the basturd.

 

[dholland02]

This is why when I hunt I carry two coin containers, one always has clad in it and the other is for my good finds. When u find something good put it in the other one and when someone comes up u pull out the boring clad and show them what u found. Lol

No one needs to know what I find other than my hunting buddy's. Way I look at it is, I spent all the money on the equipment. My finds are mine. I've walked away from properties because the owners wanted my finds.

 

[Bum Luck]

.................. I suspect that someone detected the property already 20-25 years ago. ....................

Sure sounds like it to me.

Move on.

 

[beachdjdigger]

Put yourself in his situation and think of what you would do. You may want to make this offer, he can pay you half the items value or you pay him half. Most people think letting someone detect on their property will find something of significant value and lose out on some money. They fail to realize that before you asked them for permission to detect on their property THEY never thought of doing it or ever imagined something of value would be on his property. You sound like an honest person so just go by what your standards are and remember, no one enjoys other people getting rich off them.

 

[beachdjdigger]

Put yourself in his situation and think of what you would do. You may want to make this offer, he can pay you half the items value or you pay him half. Most people think letting someone detect on their property will find something of significant value and lose out on some money. They fail to realize that before you asked them for permission to detect on their property THEY never thought of doing it or ever imagined something of value would be on his property. You sound like an honest person so just go by what your standards are and remember, no one enjoys other people getting rich off them.

 

[TampaTroy]

Give it another shot. There has to be some more spots you haven't passed your coil over yet. No telling what's there.