Private Drive Sign

[redberankubota]

Yea...what happened!?!

The house we recently moved into is on a dead end road...the LAST house on the road to be exact. There are at least 3 signs in the 1/2 mile or better L-shaped street that tells you there`s no outlet , dead end etc...and we get three people a day EASILY that come ALL the way to the second entrance of our property and turn around. We put up a fence and gates at each driveway before we even moved in...I don`t know how the previous owners never did that! :confused2: I guarantee without the gates we would have people in the yard everyday

...LOL guess I don`t sound like much of a "people person" now , do I

 

[Redgoatea]

Wow! I couldn't believe all of the replies when I logged on this morning! Some great ideas, too!

I'm going to put up a "private drive" sign for the winter. Next summer I'm going to trench for power and some kind of communication line and install a gate. I need some kind of control over who is coming on to the property. My daughter got married a year ago and now the son in-laws family drives in to go hunting and they never call to say they are coming. So I'll come outside only to find some car parked by the pole building and no idea why its there. Talking to them won't help. But installing a gate and not giving out the code will definitely take care of the problem(s).

I don't mind people stopping by. Mainly I just don't want people on the property and I don't know why they are there.

You don't need to wait or trench for power. Mule Gates provides a solar collector that charges a small tractor size battery. Works great for our gate and we have five cars that go in and out all the time. 7

 

[MNBobcat]

Has the Sheriff got there yet???

Yeah, it was somebody whom I had give permission last year to hunt. He didn't have my phone number to call before coming out and I wasn't home when he got here. We got it all straightened out.

 

[Johnbro]

I guess that is one of the perks of living remote, on the rare occasion someone I don't know shows up in my cove I invite them in for a cup of coffee. Never thought about posting it or running people off.
Rick

Uh, yeah, what ever happened to good old fashioned neighborliness? Is America so paranoid we have to regard everyone who happens to come up our road (whether on purpose or by accident) as a home invader???

 

[GGB]

Sad to say, but in today's world, it's very easy to assume the worst in strangers. And apparently, people today can't read signs, so I'm not sure what you can put on one that people will obey.

It just doesn't make me very comfortable when a vehicle I'm not familiar with drives up our drive. Had a couple of times that I thought might be casing our place. On one occasion, our doorbell rang during the day, and it took me a bit longer than normal to answer the door. The young lady seemed surprised when I came to the door, and had some lame story about selling something. Her appearance certainly didn't appear to be very professional, and I said I wasn't interested and closed the door. I then went to another window where I had a view of our driveway, and saw that there were two dubious looking male characters in the car, which sped off before I could get a license plate. Maybe it was nothing, but I really doubt they were up to any good purpose.

I just put in a driveway alarm, the next step is a camera system.

Perhaps I'm just getting older, but with age it's gotten easier to trust my gut instincts about people.

 

[redberankubota]

Uh, yeah, what ever happened to good old fashioned neighborliness? Is America so paranoid we have to regard everyone who happens to come up our road (whether on purpose or by accident) as a home invader???

I don`t consider myself paranoid , just cautious esp. after our last home was broken into in the middle of the day by a bunch of thugs very few people I trust much anymore.

edit...just saw the above post...Thats EXACTLY what happened to us. They go around knocking on doors and when no one answers they kick it in! Luckily my wife wasn`t home who knows what may have happened as she wouldn`t have opened the door to a stranger! We have a driveway alert and a camera system ever since and love being able to see what`s going on outside without going outside.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Yeah, it was somebody whom I had give permission last year to hunt. He didn't have my phone number to call before coming out and I wasn't home when he got here. We got it all straightened out.

That is pretty nice of you to give lifetime huntin rights, course I am sure he recriprocated with some backstrap! Glad you got it figured out.

Rick

 

[MikeD74T]

Don't know if one can charge an entrance fee to enter a private way but know of an owner of a small private airstrip near a lake that had uninvited planes landing just cause they could. He initiated a $2500 landing fee, posted it in NOTAM & airport directory and gets pretty much no takers. Best part it it's inforced by the FAA for non-emergency landings. MikeD74t

 

[jpm]

i use to have people come up my 1800 ft drive when i started building my house all the time.it was great when it wasn't all done and they had to back out down the hill they came up.had one out of stater get stuck in the mud up to his bumper :laughing: he had to get a excavator plus tow truck to get out along with a long walk down the road to a phone because cell phones do not work out here :laughing:.most people were just looking around but a couple were looking to take something .signs slowed it down a little but what stopped almost all was "buddy" a 180lbs mastiff put his head right through my car window at the lumber yard because two old guys parked to close to the car,they had to change their shorts.every one here about it including the local dirt bags.
no more vistors and those that do see him and leave real fast .

 

[Northland]

I had the same problem with people coming in our driveway. Sometimes it may be thieves casing the place.

I added two large beware of dogs signs. When my Great Danes were outside people didn't get too close to the house or dare get out of their vehicles.