More than Just a Broker…
Uniquely Servicing as Advisors, We are the Servant Leaders in This Niche
With a servant’s heart, Jon Kohler & Associates started with a passion for natural places and to show they should be in a market by themselves. Jon Kohler & Associates is the leading authority on hunting plantations, ranches, and high-quality properties representing the best land stewards in the Southeast. With three decades specializing in this niche, our real estate brokerage, marketing, and advisor firm is best known as the preeminent source of knowledge of high-quality land, for our unmatched marketing, and for representing the top properties in this niche. Our philosophy about these unique properties is that they are in an asset class by themselves which has led us to sell more than 349,996 acres since 2010 alone. We are more than a traditional broker; our primary focus is to ensure good land stewardship is financially rewarded.
Since 2010 alone, we have closed more than 349,996 acres and $4.8B+ in sales. . Examples include some of the most prestigious quail plantation sales in the Thomasville/Tallahassee and Albany markets, as well as the Alabama Plantation Belt, such as Disston (twice), the historic Greenwood Plantation, Longpine Plantation, Chemonie Plantation, Chinquapin (twice), Heritage, Nochaway, and Shell Creek Plantation in AL. We also hold the title for the largest timberland sale (Rock Creek/Molpus) in the Southeast in 8 years.
In 2013, we co-founded LandLeader, the largest land marketing company in America. With over four billion in sales during its first four years as a startup. Today Jon sits on the board of directors.
We spend 100% of our time representing and advising the high-quality land market. We continue to set records throughout the southeast and the plantation belts. We are extremely well-capitalized and have enormous energy to attack today’s market changes and constant challenges.
We pray every day for the wisdom to best advise people on their real estate goals. We take our role in finding new stewards for the special properties in our region very seriously. Before you list or buy a high-quality investment property, give us a call.
The properties we represent are in an asset class by themselves. Our firm provides a high level of specialty knowledge beyond what a typical brokerage is able to provide. Our team takes our role in finding new stewards for the special properties very seriously. Our staff hold a Juris Doctorate, a Masters, two Bachelors in Real Estate, and an Accredited Land Consultant. We not only love land and broker land, but live the lifestyle ourselves and manage our own timberland, ranch, and hunting lands.
The Leading Authority on High Quality Properties
Over the past three decades, we have developed a specialty brokerage such that we represent the best land stewards in the Southeast. We have changed the way quail plantations and land are bought and sold! Our philosophy about these unique properties is that they are in an asset class by themselves which has led us to sell more than 349,996 acres and $1.48B+ in sales since 2010 alone. We are the Southeast’s high-quality property sales leaders; nothing is a better indicator of future success than past performance. We represent the finest properties in the Southeast and give them a national spotlight. As founding partners of two of the most successful land marketing firms in the country, Plantation Marketing Group and LandLeader, the largest land marketing company in America — no amount of money is spared on marketing our clients’ properties and our sales reflect our strategic approach. There isn’t anyone else in the country who markets high-quality land better than we do.
We Are Servant Leaders to this Niche
Passionately Serving Those that Share the Land Stewardship and Conservation Ethic
The world is increasingly distracted by technology and hobbies we couldn’t dream up a week ago. In order for the lifestyle that we cherish and land that we love to continue to thrive, it is imperative that we demonstrate the financial, intrinsic, and lifestyle rewards of owning such land. Eventually, even the most cherished family properties will be sold. Our job is to be “gatekeepers” and when it’s time to sell, to make sure that the landowner is rewarded financially, and that we have buyers willing to pay a premium who will be good land stewards themselves.
Mark 12:31 (KJV)
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
We Proudly Support:
Tall Timbers, Quail Forever, Pheasant Forever, NWTF, and Many other Conservation Organizations!
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Bruce Ratliff is a retired elected official (Property Appraiser Taylor County). Bruce brings years of experience in ad valorem tax knowledge. His property tax background gives JKA Associates & clients a unique insight into the complicated tax process. Bruce held several positions in the Florida Association of Property Appraisers, including member of the Board of Directors, President, Vice-President and Secretary, and served on the Agricultural & Legislative Committees for the Association. The real estate business has been part of Bruce’s life since childhood. His mother, Shirley Ratliff owned Professional Realty of Perry, Florida and his father, Buster owned Ratliff Land Surveying which Bruce was General Manager of before his political career.
From murky farm ponds to pristine glacier-cut lakes and everything in between, Knox Daniels’ expertise stems from a lifelong fascination of water and the creatures that live in and around it. He recognizes and helps clients appreciate the value water features bring to a property. “My goal is to help buyers realize and sellers maximize the value different water bodies bring to a property, not only in a recreational sense, but also for social storm reasons.” After extensively traveling the country for collegiate BASS fishing tournaments, Knox graduated and worked for the Southeast’s finest fisheries and wildlife biologist, Greg Grimes. With Grimes’ company, AES, Knox managed many of the southeast’s finest private lake estate/impoundment properties, and learned the intricacies of upscale property management. Learning from Greg and other biologists, Knox honed in on the specific conditions and habitat needed for optimal gamefish growth in private lakes. He has also worked as a property manager on several thousand acres and for a commercial developer, facilitating the dirt work and builds of several apartment complexes, but his true passion has always been in the outdoors. “I’ve always had an insatiable fascination with ponds/lakes and am grateful to be able to help to place clients on the properties of their dreams and make their personal fisheries/wildlife goals reality with JKA.” – Knox Daniels
As a landowner of his own family farm, Lick Skillet, along with family land that has been passed down and enjoyed together at Keaton Beach for 40 years, Jon knows what it means to be a steward of the last best places. As a third-generation land broker with more than 30 years of experience in advising landowners in this niche, Jon is known for his innate ability to harvest a land’s unique intrinsic value. Touting several notable sales under his belt, Jon personally closed Rock Creek/Molpus – 124,000 acres of premium timberland at $142,000,000 – which was known as the largest timberland land sale in the Southeast for eight years running. He is a co-founding member of LandLeader and achieved the real estate industry’s highest honor, “2022 National Broker of the Year – Recreational Land Sales,” by the Realtors® Land Institute.
Prior to joining Jon Kohler & Associates, Walter Hatchett served for 30 years as a land manager to several of the south’s most esteemed properties, including Rock Creek. As a former property manager himself, and a consistently ranked “Top Sales Producer” nationwide and achieved “APEX Top 20 Land Broker” multiple times, Walter has a keen eye for the best in habitat management.
With Madison County roots, Lori grew up on her family farm at Pettis Springs along the historic Aucilla River. A love of the land was instilled in Lori very early on by her father who was a local farmer. Lori understands the importance of good land stewardship and has witnessed first-hand how her own father, a former 2-term member of the Florida House of Representatives whose district encompassed many rural counties of the Red Hills Plantation Region, with a little bit of sweat equity, so lovingly worked their own family land. These are core values she carries with her today, and nothing gives her more personal satisfaction than to represent some of the south’s best land stewards.
Hailing from a long line of outdoorsmen, Tim learned a great deal from his father and grandfather. He saw first-hand what it means to be a good land steward. He believes land is so much more than a place to hunt, fish, and grow timber or crops. “It’s an identity, a resting place, a safe haven and a way of life, said Tim.” Tim’s family ties to Alabama run deep. During his grandfather’s first term, Governor James was responsible for signing into law Alabama’s first state duck stamp which helped to ensure funding for the procurement, development, and preservation of wetlands for migratory waterfowl habitat. He also established Alabama’s lifetime hunting license, so it is no surprise that Tim is an avid outdoorsman with a keen eye as to how best to improve habitat for the greater good of its wildlife.
Jason has been assisting landowners for the last 28 years in Georgia and South Carolina obtain achievements the owners did not realize were possible. His degree in Biology from Georgia Southern stemmed from the desire to know how things in nature work. His plantation roots began at just 16 years old outside of Albany, GA and the last 20 years were spent in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His entire career has been spent developing a global approach to plantation management. That plan included sales. Sales is in Jason’s blood- his mom had a 45-year career as a real estate broker. After college, he chose to pursue his passion of making properties great. In 2011, Jason sold his first plantation. Since then, he has assisted buyers and sellers with over $20 million in sales while most of that time working as a full-time General Manager of a large Lowcountry plantation. Today, he is committed to using his unique skill set and experience to guide landowners through the many challenges of plantation ownership.