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"Talk to your neighbors. Call the Farm Bureau. Call the county Extension office. Ask some local farmers what they are doing in reference to leasing. If you talk about the subject with enough people, you will find a group."

"Janice, Nice but finding a group has been difficult for me.  I am in Columbiana County.  New players would be nice and maybe the groups will form.   Currently,  I wonder if this is not a way for lawyers to make…"

"If a landman did that to me I would contact the local district attorney's office and file fraud charges."

"You should insist on at least photocopies of whatever you signed. That is not an unreasonable request and if they won't honor that request you would be right to suspect something isn't right."

"The problem is, you sign your lease, initial everything, get it notarized, then the landman takes it and you don't see it again until it is filed and a copy is sent back to you. Only then would you see that what was filed was not what you…"

"Tim, I did this and months later, I was just told about this. I also"

"Becca,   I was also told this just two days ago, after months of dealing with an attorney.   If the attorney had been up front with me I would have not wasted time waiting 5 months to close my contract.  I can up…"

"Any material change to a lease after signature makes it invalid."

"Please contact the American Association of Professional Landmen (landman.org) and let them know what happened. This individual might also be a member of the MLBC of the AAPL (Michael Late Benedum Chapter of the AAPL.) You can find them through the…"

"Anyone who let's them get away with it."

"I did finally hear from the gas company; they are going to 'make it right', whatever that means."

"See an attorney."

"This week I signed an Oil and Gas lease with a landman. Every page was at least initialed or signed, and it was notarized. After I signed, the landman rewrote (without my knowledge or consent) the Addendum page (making it far more favorable to the…"

"Becca,   As an O & G professional I can assure you that it common to record a Memorandum of Oil & Gas Lease, with both parties keeping an original Oil & Gas Lease which has all of the terms. Somewhere on the face of your lease…"

"Just an observation, the differences between O&G Companies and the way all of this is handled is very interesting. I wonder if it is just because the all of the companies do business differently, or is it because the industry is fairly new in…"

"A good contract benefits everyone involved. I am new to this type of thing, but think that sometimes folks are just too trust worthy and just go ahead and sign on the dotted line. Thanks everyone for their contribution to the discussion and best of…"