The REALTORS® Land Institute recently announced their 2022 leadership.
Land Broker Co-op Member Sam Bowers, ALC, was elected National Vice President; and Land Broker Co-op Member Mike Garrett, ALC, was elected At-Large Director.
Making better Programs for Veterans In 2014, Micah Fink, CEO/Founder of Heroes and Horses, was trying to get the program off the ground. He was $24,500 in debt, had invested his entire life savings into his mission, was blindsided by horse thieves (actual fact), and had too many questions and not enough answers. He
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Swan Land Company and Premier Land Company, both located in Bozeman, announce that the Climbing Arrow Ranch has sold to an undisclosed buyer. Mike Swan, owner and managing broker of Swan Land Company, represented the seller. Bryce Connery of Premier Land Company represented the buyer. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. The Ranch was listed in April 2021 for $136,250,000, making it the most expensive ranch transaction in the history of the state of Montana and within the top ten most expensive in the United States.
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Tom Biederman is the owner, broker and principal auctioneer of Biederman Real Estate and Auctioneers. Tom’s passion, since childhood, has been real estate and quality horses. He grew up on a 700 acre farm in Springfield, Kentucky called High Point Farm, where his family raised American Saddlebred horses, Hereford cattle and crops including tobacco, corn, soy beans and alfalfa. Tom’s grandfather, Ben Hale, Sr., was a real estate broker throughout the early and middle parts of the 20th century and there Tom’s passion for serving and helping his friends and customers buy and sell property that fit their needs was born.
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Max Ramsey has been very active in the agriculture and rodeo world from a young age. Along with doing FFA and 4H, Max competed in high school and amateur rodeos across the state. After attending Wimberley high school, Max moved to Stephenville, where he graduated with an undergraduate degree in agricultural economics and later an MBA.
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Growing up in the small farming and ranching town of Winnie, TX it was natural for Chad to gravitate to the agricultural industry. From a very young age, he spent the weekends and summers of his school years working on the coastal prairie of White Ranch. It was there that he learned that nothing is achieved without a vision, sweat, and hard work. Upon graduating from school Chad began farming on his own. First leasing area farmland and then purchasing his own farm at age 21.
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Terry Garmon, Broker/ Auctioneer has 40 plus years experience in row crop land, cattle land, equine farms, produce, poultry, timberland, and 50 plus years as a hunter.
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Russell Hickey has called Southern Colorado home his entire life and has a deep appreciation for the land and culture. The decades of time spent on local ranches, years of mentorship and his continued education in Water Law and Land Use has resulted in Russell being very successful in the local real estate market, where he specializes in Ranches, Large Acreage, and Mountain Properties.
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David earned his B.S. degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois in 1993 and serves as the designated Managing Broker for Illinois and Iowa and Managing Auctioneer in Illinois and Indiana for First Mid Ag Services. He joined First Mid in 2019 through the acquisition of Soy Capital Ag Services. Prior to Soy Capital he worked in farm management at Magna Trust Company and later the insurance industry. In addition to auctioning farmland, David is licensed to sell and buy farmland / real estate. He currently manages over 8,500 acres of Midwest farmland for select clients.
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I had the privilege to speak at a seminar recently on this topic and the speaker before me said that the next endangered species in this is country is the landowner. Was he right! The other proposed tax law changes are (1) the elimination of the stepped-up basis, (2) the doubling of the capital gains tax to 39.6%, (3) the reduction of the federal estate tax exemption to $3.5 million and an increase of the federal estate tax rate to 45%. Every one of these proposed tax law changes can cause potential needless tax burdens on property owners.
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