Vice Grips is the first thing I thought of.

Could you sell his stuff still on the lease to re-coop your money trailer 4 wheeler etc.

Sure why not.

Because he could report his property stolen. Bad idea. Play this out in your head. He reports his property stolen, names you as a suspect, officer asks you if you took, and sold his property, you answer yes and start to explain why you felt that you had a right to his stuff as you are placed in handcuffs, charged with a felony.

"He sold it to all of us on the lease for cash."

OK, steal a couple of vehicles, sell them, then lie about it. More bad advice.

If someone rips you off in a business deal, that sucks and there are remedies. Becoming a criminal to settle a debt with a criminal isn't a good idea.

Just think of all the additional entertaining posting content it would create.

Sounds like enough money to be felony fraud-I'd talk to the DA.

The guy who runs our lease took our money but didn’t pay the rancher. How do we get our money back

Where I come from, things like this are settled off-line and not talked about.

Good luck to you.

A new reality TV show, "Deer Lease Court".

Crabs got to eat too

Yall need to find this guy who took your money and take him to .

The guy who runs our lease took our money but didn’t pay the rancher. How do we get our money back

Where I come from, things like this are settled off-line and not talked about.

Good luck to you.

The person over a lease I was on in Brown County did the same thing. At the end of the season, he told us we had lost our lease and we needed to get our stuff off ASAP after the season. The land owner was a woman that was nearly 80 years old. She showed up when I was getting my blind and told me that he never paid her the money for the season that we had just hunted. She said she knew we had all paid him or we wouldn`t have been there and she didn`t blame us. What a real POS. His name was Ron Day from Burleson.

Or just a vice.

Also, something to consider when going the legal route, it will cost you way more money to get the money you put in back out, if you even get that money back. The lawyers always make the most in any kind of lawsuit, whether small claims or big claims. And just getting an award or judgement against someone doesnt mean squat, getting tangible money out of that award or settlement then costs you a lot more money. Usually you will spend hundreds if not thousands to get a couple dollars back, so factor that into any direction you want to go...

Vise, not vice.

making the check or money order out to the land owner might help lessen the chance of this (yes I know a bit late in this case)

Man, I hate that for you. Really isn’t much on the legal side that you can do to recover what was stolen but worth a shot.

There have been a lot of comments about not posting on the internet and just “taking care of it”. I know some people just talk but I’m 100% positive that is exactly what would happen on our lease. Money wouldn’t be an issue to fight it the legal route but they would have to find the thief because he would be preoccupied and hoping the law found him.

I know this for two reasons…One, a few years back we had a family of morons get off and they stole our outhouse (and not a good one) and at one time there was talk of burning down their camper and house. Two, I am the one that collects all the checks and pays the rancher directly.

I am not an easily intimidated person but I would be terrified

Wonder if simply making use of the "For" line on a personal check could result in courtroom evidence that embezzlement has occurred?

Hey T Rex - how you doing??

JR

If a check was written, I’d call the bank and say it was stolen.

Where I come from, things like this are settled off-line and not talked about.

Good luck to you.

Got our money.

Got our money.

Got our money.