No One Knows More about High Quality Land
Knowledge is power
Quite simply, no other brokerage has the knowledge or expertise in this niche. We invite you to benefit from it as a buyer’s broker. We spend 100% of our time in this field and closing what averages an unprecedented 485 acres a week for the last 10 years, gives us deal knowledge and inside information no one else has. We know why buyers and sellers did what they did, paid what they paid, and have an intimate knowledge of the land. This knowledge can directly benefit you.
It would be rare for a buyer to try to buy a property without contacting us first; we are contacted by almost every buyer looking for a high-quality property in the South. We not only represent the best properties on the open market but have a vast knowledge of properties that may be available to fit our buyer’s needs.
We introduce you
We introduce our buyers to the top experts (managers, foresters, attorneys, surveyors, etc), all of the people that you can trust; we know this better than anyone else because we do this every day and are landowners ourselves. We also introduce our buyers to the community.
Advisors
Furthermore, we are not a traditional broker, we are servant leaders to this niche and its landowners; we are advisors and we continually give our buyers advice after they purchase property for the land forever. Anything to do with land, we are there, just call us; if we don’t know the answer we will know who to call.
We are experts on high-quality land; we not only love land and broker land, but live the lifestyle ourselves and manage our own timberland, ranch, and hunting lands.
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, 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 the “gatekeepers” and when it’s time to sell, to make sure that the landowner is rewarded financially and we have buyers willing to pay a premium and 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, Lowcountry Land Trust, Qual Forever Pheasant Forever, NWTF
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.
Tall Timbers Land Conservancy, which holds conservation easements on more than
127,000 acres in the Red Hills (Quote from Vires Magazine)