LandThink Contributors

Robert King

2011 LandThink Contributor of The Year

Robert is a Land Agent with AlaLandCo. He’s a native of Clay County, Alabama and has over 10 years experience in marketing and selling property in Alabama and is dedicated to providing the top-notch service to land sellers and land buyers that only a Land Sales Professional can. Visit his site at RobertKing.net.

Jonathan Goode

Jonathan is a professional land agent with AlaLandCo, serving the historic Black Belt of west Alabama. He is a member of the national and Alabama chapters of the Realtor’s Land Institute (RLI), and the only real estate agent in Perry County that focuses completely on rural land sales. Visit his website at JonathanGoode.com.

Marisa Morgan Dallman

Marisa Morgan Dallman, ePro, is a real estate land broker and owner of Kansas Land Brokers. Marisa’s love of the land and passion for rural Kansas along with her experience in land development and marketing, provide the background needed to professionally assist buyers and sellers investing in Kansas land.

Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.

Brooks Mendell, Ph.D. is President and Founder of Forisk Consulting, a forest industry, timber REIT, bioenergy and timber market research firm. Dr. Mendell has over fifteen years of operating, research, and consulting experience in forest business and finance. Mendell has published over sixty articles and two books on topics related to timber and timberland REITs and markets, forest business management and operations, and communication skills.

Andy Gustafson, CES

Andy Gustafson, Certified Exchange Specialist®, is a managing member of Atlas 1031 Exchange, LLC, a nationwide accommodator of Internal Revenue Code Section 1031. He founded the company in 2007, and has since expanded his professional services into Texas and the Midwest. He has spoken to hundreds of investors at Wealth Camps and Real Estate Investment Clubs nationwide and is a sought after speaker on the topic. As an approved continuing educational provider, he has helped hundreds of Realtors, Attorneys, and CPAs understand the application of the 1031 code. To date he has accommodated over 500 exchanges representing $433,000,000 in exchanged value and deferring over $22,000,000 in taxes.

Zack Purvis

Zack is a Vice President with AgFirst Farm Credit Bank in Columbia, SC. He has been involved in numerous land and agribusiness financing transactions throughout the Southeast U.S., and is now AgFirst’s field representative for Farm Credit associations in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. To find the Farm Credit office nearest you, visit www.farmcreditnetwork.com.

Paul Christian Breden

Paul Christian Breden is a practicing North Carolina & Virginia land broker with 40+ years experience. His company, Mountain Land Company, sells only raw mountain land over 50 acres in 10 counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Paul has authored scores of magazine articles and hundreds of newspaper columns on buying and selling real estate, including Carolina Dreaming – Finding and Buying Mountain Land! – a practical guidebook for land buyers.

Michael Downey

Michael Downey is an associate at McKee Carson, an affiliate of Field Sport Concepts. Field Sport is an affiliation of land professionals that seeks to preserve rural land through field sport programming. Michael’s work has focused on investigating the performance of stormwater management systems around the University of Virginia’s campus and the larger Charlottesville, VA community. His distinguished majors thesis, “Edible Rain Gardens: An Innovative Approach to Stormwater Management,” evaluated and assessed the potential for using stormwater management systems as sources of fresh produce in urban environments.

Rusty Hamrick

A lifelong resident of South Carolina, Rusty is a land broker and founded Huff Creek Properties (land division of NAI Earle Furman) where he follows his passion of assisting clients in the purchase and sale of hunting and timber tracts as well as offering input and facilitating methods to make improvements to these properties. Rusty graduated from the College of Charleston in 2003 with a degree in Corporate Communication and earned a law degree from the Charleston School of Law in 2007 and a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development from Clemson University in 2009. An avid outdoorsman, Rusty continues to hunt, fish, and manage for wildlife on his family’s farm. He is also a board member for the Quality Deer Management Association’s (QDMA) Foothills Branch.

Jennifer Beecher

Born and raised in South Georgia, Jennifer has an extensive knowledge of the surrounding areas which is a valuable resource for her clients. She obtained her real estate license in 2005 and has worked for two premier land developers, Bluegreen Communities and Redstone Properties. Jennifer has also worked with K. Hovnanian Homes, a national homebuilder, as a new home sales consultant. In 2010, she joined Innovative Land Solutions based in Brunswick, GA. Jennifer has participated in a variety of real estate transactions, but she specializes in assisting buyers and sellers analyze and negotiate the sale or purchase of land all over South Georgia. Recently, she joined the team at LandThink and LANDFLIP as a Public Relations and Social Media Manager. Jennifer graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2003 with a B.S. degree in Public Relations.

Ryan Folk

Ryan founded LandThink in 2008 to bring together the various components of the land industry and provide knowledge and information to land professionals and investors to create a stronger land marketplace. He is also the producer of the LandThink Summit, an annual event that brings together land professionals and investors from all over the country. He is also the founder and CEO of LANDFLIP.com. LANDFLIP’s ntwork of sites includes FARMFLIP.com, LOTFLIP.com and RANCHFLIP.com.

Tate Reddick

Tate is the Principal Broker of 1031 Land Group. He brings over 8 years of land sales and consulting experience and has sold over $50 million in land investments throughout Georgia and the Southeast. Tate is a highly recognized land investment broker in Georgia and has built strong relationships with land investors from all over the United States.