Signing bonus checks

Can anyone comment on the signing bonus checks? I know some groups are offering large signing bonus promises, but to date only Wishguard has paid anything out....they sent out the first round of checks Friday, 3/23.

Has anyone gotten a signing bonus check from ALOV, NELA, or another company?

My check was due from Wishguard in Sept. They failed to pay. On the day the check should have arrived I got a request for extension. I did not grant the extension. When I called Wishguard they told me my property did not meet their criteria and then told me that many properties in Ashtabula County had existing leases. I asked if that was the case with my property and they said they would not tell me. I asked what criteria the property did not meet. They said I would never know that. I have since checked and there is no existing lease on the property.

Draw your own conclusions.

Just found out (from reading a 'Utica Shale Group' entry that I take it posted last Thursday) that Chesapeake is looking to hire some Landmen in Ohio.

Check it out.

Let us all know what you think / if you've heard anything more relative to new Ashtabula County leasing activity.

3/19/2013

gib shanley said:

My check was due from Wishguard in Sept. They failed to pay. On the day the check should have arrived I got a request for extension. I did not grant the extension. When I called Wishguard they told me my property did not meet their criteria and then told me that many properties in Ashtabula County had existing leases. I asked if that was the case with my property and they said they would not tell me. I asked what criteria the property did not meet. They said I would never know that. I have since checked and there is no existing lease on the property.

Draw your own conclusions.

It's impossible to conclude anything pertinent beyond what you already know to be fact.

All I can conclude (as related) is what I concluded many years ago and that is that it's a landowner hostile marketplace out there - landowner be smart - landowner beware - misinformation and trickery continue their supreme reign.

Good luck to all of us - we need it.

Joseph E. Powell said:

Just found out (from reading a 'Utica Shale Group' entry that I take it posted last Thursday) that Chesapeake is looking to hire some Landmen in Ohio.

Check it out.

Let us all know what you think / if you've heard anything more relative to new Ashtabula County leasing activity.

3/19/2013

gib shanley said:

My check was due from Wishguard in Sept. They failed to pay. On the day the check should have arrived I got a request for extension. I did not grant the extension. When I called Wishguard they told me my property did not meet their criteria and then told me that many properties in Ashtabula County had existing leases. I asked if that was the case with my property and they said they would not tell me. I asked what criteria the property did not meet. They said I would never know that. I have since checked and there is no existing lease on the property.

Draw your own conclusions.