Thank you for your advise but, my cousins & myself live in Florida & my brother in Arizona so it's very difficult if not impossible to go to the county court house of the three counties involved. read the reply I made to Eleanor Davis Casler. The one lease we were given an offer for is only 23.50 acres. Could you tell me what happens if we don't sign or only two out of the five of us signs & the three of us don't sign? Does it just go away? Or does someone else pick it up & makes us an offer?
Nancy Mosley said:
If you live in or near one of those counties you mentioned, I'd suggest going to the courthouse and researching your title. I have done this mostly long distance for Ritchie, and can give you ideas on the Ritchie process but I'll put that on that county's discussions.
I don't think much is going on in Gilmer. Ritchie's activity is mainly Clay and some Union. I think Doddridge is active all over. Don't know about Harrison.
Good idea about an attorney, a WV oil and gas one, as suggested below. And read this website.