Personal Data

• Born and raised on a livestock/crop farm in Northwest Kansas
• Actively engaged in Farming and Ranching Business
• BS Degree from Kansas State University in Agri-Business

Experience

• Licensed Real Estate Broker in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and New Mexico
• Certified General Real Property Appraiser in Kansas and Colorado
• Thirty-three years experience in land and farm machinery sales & appraisals
• Full time real estate and machinery auctioneer
• Owner/President of Farm & Ranch Realty, Inc., Colby, Kansas
• Firm Established in 1977
• Farm & Ranch Real Estate Broker since 1975, specializing in rural real estate
• Been associated with sales in excess of $300,000,000 in farms, ranches, residential & commercial properties since 1980

Continued Education

Courses completed include:

Real Estate Analysis; Basics of Appraisal; Sales Comparison; Approach to Appraisal; Cost & Income Approaches/Valuation of Partial Interests; Appraisal Standards & Ethics; Appraisal Report Writing; 2.0 Financial Analysis; Soils; Business Law; Statistics; Ag Economics; Principles of Farm, Ranch & Rural Appraising; Financial Analysis of Income Properties; Contracts, Closing and Pitfalls; Risk Reduction: Agency; and the New Uniform Residential Appraisal Report (1994 Version), The Limited Appraisal Report Seminar; The Kansas Brokerage Relationships in Real Estate Transactions Act.

Professional Organizations

• Member, Kansas Society of Rural Appraisers
• Past Member, Mayor's Economic Development Committee, Colby, Kansas
• Member, Colby Board of Realtors
• Member, Kansas Association of Realtors
• Member, National Association of Realtors
• Member, National Auctioneers Association
• Member, Kansas Auctioneers Association

 

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