AirBnB is a well-known travel website that allows private homeowners to open up their homes to renters. Sometimes a customer rents the entire house, other times one takes a single room. Now this concept is coming to the deer woods, as landowners can sign up their properties for hunting access. This unique concept will allow hunters to use private land and make hunting access much easier to acquire. Here’s the latest on this unique process that may spread across the country.
Next month, a Richmond-based startup will take the sharing economy into new territory — deer hunting territory. Outdoor Access, a website that matches hunters with private landowners, will launch during the first week of September — the start of the state’s urban archery season — in James City, York and Chesterfield counties.
“We wanted to let landowners know that there is a viable, legal option to bring order to the chaos caused by deer,” said Buck Robinson, the site’s co-founder. “Some people make us analogous to AirBnB, but we have a homeowner who has an issue, who has deer in their yard.” … [continued]
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