WE HELP YOU
Maximize the Value of Your Land
Growing passive income from multiple sources, coupled with long-term appreciation.
Your land can do more than sit there.
Whether you own farmland, ranchland, waterfront, timber or recreational ground, your land can be one of the most rewarding assets you’ll ever own, financially and personally.
We have at least 12 potential strategies and tactics in our Old Drake model playbook to generate passive income from multiple sources, coupled with long-term appreciation.
Not to mention the incredible joy that comes with improving a farm to have it become all it can be: a row-crop food producer, and a beautiful, productive sanctuary for wildlife and for those lucky human beings who get to fish, hunt, or steward God’s creation on their very own land.
Lease the bottom ground acres to a quality farmer for row-crop production
CRP (Conservation Reserve Program): lease the hill ground acres to the government
Periodic, precision timber harvesting (black walnut, oak, etc.)
Stewardship: erosion control, controlled burns, clear-cutting, hinge-cutting, food plots, etc.
Sportsmen leases: fishing and hunting, QDMA (Quality Deer Management Association) best practices
Leverage with favorable terms (Farm Credit Services)
Loan portability with favorable terms (Farm Credit Services)
Agriculture exemption for low real estate taxes
Depreciation on all capital improvements
Excess soil fertility deduction/amortization (IRS Section 180)
Long-term capital gains
1031 exchange (like-kind properties)
Not every strategy is right for every property or every landowner. We collaborate with you to determine which ones fit your land, your goals and your tax situation.
12 of Old Drake’s strategies and tactics for improving combination farmland
Almost 50 years of empirical evidence supports what the research says about Midwestern row-crop farmland as an investment, and that’s before its other great benefit to investors is considered.
Farmland has historically had a low correlation with stock and bond markets. Simply stated, it doesn’t tend to zig and zag with them. That can make it a powerful diversification strategy for an equity portfolio, or a stock and bond portfolio.
Farmland marches to its own drum.
We’re simply caretakers passing through.
In the end, it all belongs to the Big Man upstairs. We work to leave it much better than we found it, and we’ll help you do the same.
Your land is your legacy. Let’s make the most of it.
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We have no minimum portfolio size. We serve clients from $500K to $25 million plus.
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We earn a modest FLAT FIXED FEE capped at $5,000/year…paid quarterly at $1,250/quarter. The first quarter is FREE, no charge to YOU our client. Our fees are totally transparent and a fraction of both the typical financial advisor and the value we provide. This is the first area where we can typically reduce our clients’ fees.
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Yes! We are so confident in the added value we can bring YOU that we wave our first quarterly fee so we can start COLLABORATING together now at no charge to YOU. The sooner we start working with you, the sooner we can be building the imperative bond of trust that comes from collaborating as a team.