Every farm family reaches the day when the legacy generation and the next one need a heart-to-heart. Fear on both sides keeps it from happening. I help you have it, and then I handle the land.
Most families wait for a fall or a nursing-home bed. By then the choices are fewer and the timing belongs to someone else. I start with families much earlier, when the first quiet signs show up.
She has hosted for forty years. This year she doesn't want to.
He forgets something for the first time, or the stairs to the shop get harder.
Everyone is thinking about it. Nobody wants to be the one who says it out loud.
I sit down with both generations and help get the hard conversation started: what Mom and Dad want, what the kids can carry, and what life looks like five to seven days after a move.
Most families want to keep the home place. I work with land surveyors to carve out the closest 5 to 10 acres around the house and prepare the rest for sale.
I work closely with elder law attorneys on trusts, transfer-on-death deeds and timing around the Medicaid five-year look-back. They give the legal advice. I make sure the land side fits their plan.
A lot of farmland never shows up on residential listing sites. I market it to the buyers who actually buy acreage: neighboring operators, investors and people looking for a few acres of their own.
My commission and any survey or split costs are paid from the sale proceeds at closing. You never write me a check up front.
Based in Crown Point. I cover the counties the interstate runs through and their neighbors to the east and west.
Counties I-65 passes through
I'm a licensed Indiana real estate broker with more than 25 years in the business, and I run Flatland Real Estate as a one-man office out of Crown Point. These days I work in land only. Some days I'm more counselor than broker. I've seen what happens when a family waits too long to talk, and I'd rather help you avoid the mistakes some of your neighbors made.