Do you own timber, ranch or farmland and would like to explore opportunities on how you too could profit from today’s recreational land market? Today, recreational land values are rising exponentially. The more recreational and Social Storm™ Properties attributes we can show, the more your property is worth. Many times, we can show significant improved value, without the landowner having to do a whole lot, thorough what we call our “Working Lands Program.”
Our firm closes an average of $500,00 a day, seven days a week of land. Our average price in 2022 was an amazing $6,512 per acre over 27,319 acres. We are the experts at showing land value and have a “Rolodex” of buyers both recreationally and working lands. Our buyers are used to seeing lands in the $5,000 per acre range and up. If your property is worth less than this, then there is a great chance that we can use our knowledge to pull your property value up too. Our methodology, our agents, and how we market land is different than other brokers. It’s common for this difference to become a profit center for our clients. For 2022, Jon Kohler received the highest honor the real estate industry awards, achieving the title “National Recreational Land Broker of the Year” and our LandLeader partner, Todd Renfrew, has been named “National Ranch Broker of the Year.” Literally, no one has the record, knowledge, or experience on achieving top dollar for working lands in today’s market than we do.
We are now expanding our successful “Working Land Program” to more landowners, places that we can show intrinsic value, show that if a few improvements were made the land would…should…be worth more now. Our agents can now help on properties as small as 100 acres.
If you own timber, ranch or farmland and want to learn how you too can profit from what we do, simply reach out to any of our agents.
Working Lands That Benefit Most:
• Timberland with some intrinsic value, something unique
• Farmland combined with good hunting
• Property with live or open water
• Social Storm™ Properties
• Ranch land with a good wildlife component
• Lands not yet under conservation easement
• Property that is superior to those nearby
About Jon Kohler & Associates
Since 2010, Jon Kohler & Associates is renowned for closing over $1.3 billion dollars in sales and an average of 598 acres per day – while commanding some of the highest land prices in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. We have buyers that partner with us, buy lands to improve them, enter our marketing program and profit heavily. Essentially, through our help, we assist landowners in “jumping” asset classes into the next higher level.
With our market and habitat knowledge, we are offering a new program focused specifically on working lands. Many times, on ranches, timberland, and small-to-large farms minor improvements can be done to greatly increase value to the next higher-up asset class, whether that be through recreational use, timber management, or promoting Social Storm™ properties. Our “Working Lands Program” allows you to profit from our knowledge while spending a minimal amount on improvements.
If you own a working lands property, you’ve watched the news and thought there should be a way for you and your family to capitalize on today’s opportunity, we recommend you give us a call. Your instincts are probably right – and you may be surprised about what our program can do for you.
How it Works?
Many of the high-quality recreational and high-end properties we have represented in the past were at one-time working lands. Once, arguably unpolished, these lands were sold to folks who improved them and by doing so, made a lot of money. The famed Deep Creek Plantation (sold three times by JKA), Walker Springs (sold five times by JKA), Magnolia Hall (sold two times by JKA), Honey Lake (sold three times by JKA) are all now renowned as a one-of-a-kind asset class.
Our specialty is identifying how a property can be improved with just a little infusion of capital and then taking it to the next level. We have closed over $300M for investors who we showed where and how the land could be worth more, that did just that. With our new “Working Lands Program” you can profit from this knowledge yourself.
Why
What do you have to do? Simply trust us to do our job like over Xxxx acres of other landowners have. If we don’t perform, we not only don’t get paid, but we lose a lot… much, much more than a typical broker. We have major “skin in the game” on the listings we accept, from the short films we make, to our full-time marketing staff, and LandLeader infrastructure. The reason we can do this is because of our “Rolodex” of buyers and our proven marketing machine.
Who Will You Meet?
Dedicated servant leaders, and landowners making their living by helping similar landowners:
Jon Kohler
Walter Hatchett
Cole Schwab
Lori Weldon
Tim James
Brett Bryan
Bruce & Donna Ratliff
Scott Sumner
Jason Hewett
Chip Byrd
Knox Daniels
What Type of Property Works Best?
Land that has historically been balanced between good stewardship and income through timber, farming, or cattle works best. What we do is use our experience and weigh the costs and time of improving your property to the next higher asset class. We then advise you of your ability to capture some of this added value – which may mean you do nothing but rely 100% on our marketing – or may mean a balance of implemented improvements combined with our value add. Either way, it costs you nothing to see if our program would benefit you.
What You Get
An opportunity to capitalize on our knowledge and ability to market these lands, to take advantage of our Social Storm™ Properties asset class and achieve prices and sales that outperform even what we saw during “irrational exuberance,” but this time, to other like-minded folks who most often share a love for the land and the legacy of it.
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.