Purchasing land for personal climbing

The Carolina Climbers Coalition has purchased land or developed leases at well-known crags but there's bound to be plenty of undiscovered or little known crags that are not part of State or National parks and owned by some random non-climber.  Do people ever purchase land specifically for personal climbing and if so do they tend to share it with friends, partner with other climbers, etc? 

I did this in RRG. I  know of about 10 different climbers that have bought land with climbing on it around the Red. Surprisingly there is a ton of cheap land with good rock around here. 

People do this. When I lived in Arkansas we had access to Busby ‘holler’ that was adjacent to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch and we climbed at Busby before HCR was developed. Busby was owned by a farmer at the time. A climber bought it, and shut off all access except for his homies. I’ve even heard that he patrols his border with HCR on a four wheeler, toting a shotgun proper Arkie style. Ironic and disappointing 

John Ryan wrote: People do this. When I lived in Arkansas we had access to Busby ‘holler’ that was adjacent to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch and we climbed at Busby before HCR was developed. Busby was owned by a farmer at the time. A climber bought it, and shut off all access except for his homies. I’ve even heard that he patrols his border with HCR on a four wheeler, toting a shotgun proper Arkie style. Ironic and disappointing 

Locals Only, nawmean?!

The better move would be to buy the land and then open it up to climbing so there's never an access issue. After you've got all the 4 star sends of course...

One of the little short walls on my lot. I have a sweet finger crack also I’ll see if I can find some pics. 

John hogge did it twice in the Austin Texas area.  He previously owned what is now the north shore portion of Reimers ranch and also currently owns Monster Rock a property he bought for climbing and lets people climb there free.