Thanks for the responses thus far and also your advice on face to face communication. When I did a little search for 'contacting landowners for permission', I came across a letter template, so I blindly accepted this was the way to go but perhaps not
In regards to contacting a local reviewer, I will do that in due course but really my question was just a broad thing to gauge people's reaction to this. Do people not like having to pay to log a cache, etc? ).
Thanks again for your help