Casey Berley was raised in North Texas with hunting and agricultural pursuits in both Oklahoma and Texas. Hunting, fishing, vocational agriculture, and working for a veterinarian/cattle rancher throughout his high school and college years were instrumental in influencing his love and appreciation for the land, livestock, wildlife, farming and ranching. These interests prompted Casey to pursue a degree in Animal Science from Texas A&M University where he graduated in 1989. Upon graduation, Casey entered into a productive 18+ year career in the animal health industry. As a field sales representative, district sales manager, and key account manager, he sold prescription pharmaceuticals and provided business consultation to veterinarians in private and corporate practice. In 2008, Casey transitioned from the animal health industry into farm and ranch brokerage where he has won several recognition based awards for customer service, sales initiative, and sales performance. Together with exhaustive real estate educational requirements, such achievement was instrumental in Casey earning his Accredited Land Consultant accreditation from the National Association of Realtors affiliate organization – Realtors Land Institute in 2015. Casey is quite dedicated to assisting both buyers and sellers of farm, ranch, and recreational land located in Oklahoma and Texas. Whether assisting a seller by evaluating, maximizing and negotiating the best value for their property, or assisting the buyer with comprehensive due diligence, value assessment, and negotiation, he is impassioned by meeting the needs of his clients. Casey greatly values the trust earned within his client relationships before, during, and after the sale. Consequently, he has numerous repeat clients.

Frank Cole is a Vice President in the Investment/Land Division of Henry S. Miller Brokerage. His career has included working as a real estate lender, developer and consultant. Consultancy clients have been real estate developers, lenders and government agencies including the FSLIC, FADA, RTC and the FDIC. He is also a member of the Texas Alliance of Land Brokers.

Frank started his career in banking as a commercial lender for the largest bank in the south and later as an EVP of a regional real estate financial institution.

Prior to joining Henry S. Miller, Frank worked as an commercial real estate broker contracted with a number of companies. His assignments included serving as the landlord’s leasing representation for a one million square-foot office and industrial company with 21 buildings on 17 campuses that had nine multi-tenant buildings. Previously, for the same portfolio he served as chief operating officer at Twenty Twenty Properties, Inc. Frank was also president of Newmarket Management, which included midrise office, retail, multifamily and self-storage properties.

Jack Fauntleroy was raised in Texas and Oklahoma and graduated from Highland Park H.S. in Dallas, Texas in 1987. He was then accepted to The University of Texas at Austin where he received his bachelors of Science degree in communications, in 1993. Upon graduation, Jack was hired by Clear Channel Communications in Austin where he worked in the radio advertising industry until August 2000. In August, Jack was hired by Cox Radio in Houston, Texas were he continued his work in the advertising field. In September of 2002, Jack joined the family business and moved to Throckmorton, Texas to run The Fauntleroy Hunting lodge and Bed and Breakfast. Jack added the namesake pizza business “Jack’s Pizza” to the family operation in 2003 and continues to work out the old Fauntleroy home to this day. In his spare time, Jack was president and co- creator of the World Championship Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival and BBQ Cook off (Est. 2002), President of the Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture for 3 separate years, and a member of the Throckmorton Volunteer Fire department. Jack now helps raise 3 children (Brad, Ryan and Olivia) with his wife, Angela Fauntleroy. In February 2007, Jack received his salesperson license with the TREC and is a proud member of Hortenstine Ranch Company, LLC, where he helps with, among other things, advertising Texas ranches for sale.

Blake Hortenstine was raised in North Texas and graduated from Highland Park High School in Dallas. Hunting, fishing and assisting a wildlife manager on a Shackelford County ranch developed his childhood interest of wildlife fisheries management into a career. This interest led him to pursue a degree from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Blake graduated from Texas A&M in the spring of 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Management. Upon graduation, Blake was hired as a hunting guide for Dresser Industries’ Mota Bonita hunting operation in South Texas. He relocated south to Falfurrias, Texas in Brooks County to help manage the ranch’s wildlife and to guide business executives on quail, deer, hog and turkey hunts. After living on the King Ranch for a year, he moved to Dallas to pursue a career in commercial real estate. Upon relocation to Dallas in 1997, Blake became the game manager of a low fenced 14,000 acre hunting operation and wildlife management program in the eastern Rolling Plains west of Albany, Texas. As a result of his management efforts, the ranch’s wildlife improved considerably with whitetails scoring over 170” Boone & Crockett. Blake resigned as wildlife manager in 2012 after 15 years of intensive game management due to his busy real estate career. Early in 1998, he officially began managing another ranch property north of Breckenridge, Texas in Stephens County. This hunting operation began as a 3700+/- acre ranch and was grown to include over 11,000 acres of land. The acreage was subsequently reduced to 8200+/- acres which was intensively managed for wildlife. Blake resigned in 2013 after 15 years of service as wildlife manager. In June of 1998, he joined Henry S. Miller Commercial’s Farm & Ranch Division to focus on rural and recreational property sales. After nearly 5 years with Miller’s Ranch Division, Blake decided to start his own company, Hortenstine Ranch Company, LLC. The company was successfully launched in April of 2003. In December of 2011, Blake formed a partnership with Cash McWhorter. Blake and Cash continue to successfully grow and run the business. In 2004, Blake purchased a small property Southeast of Albany in Shackelford County near Ibex. The property has Hubbard Creek running through it and land management has been intensive since his ownership began. The wildlife has flourished and improving the property has been a favorite pastime. Blake currently resides in Dallas and has two boys, Rollins and Hayes. Hortenstine Ranch Company can accommodate Buyers and Sellers of ranch properties in the state of Texas and southern Oklahoma with primary focus being properties within a 3 hour radius of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex.

Cash McWhorter was raised in Marshall, Texas, and developed an appreciation of fishing and hunting at an early age. While growing up in east Texas, in addition to his outdoor hobbies, Cash worked in the oil field gaining knowledge of land and natural resources during the summers. After college and a two-year stint as a recruiter in Kansas City, Cash returned to Texas to work for Colliers International, the third largest global real estate firm. For ten years he worked in corporate real estate, representing numerous local businesses and fortune 500 companies. In June 2010, Cash left Colliers International to start Ranch Capital Group, a fund formed to purchase recreational ranches as investments, all located within two hours of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. During that time, Cash was able to design and construct multiple water features, enact controlled burns, restore native grasses with land clearing and brush eradication practices, develop and enhance hundreds of acres of managed wetlands, work with NRCS on a number of projects, drill water wells and install irrigation piping to wetlands, establish wetland management programs, plant food plots, construct new fences, roads, and homes. His main passion is waterfowl and he has used the previous skills to develop multiple waterfowl properties. In December 2011, Cash joined Hortenstine Ranch Company as a business partner to Blake Hortenstine. Cash puts to use his vast land knowledge, corporate real estate insight, ownership and management of previous properties to provide a level of impeccable service when representing his clients in buying or selling ranches.

Bret Polk was raised on a working ranch along the Bosque River just North of Hico, Texas. He developed a passion for hunting, fishing, and the natural beauty of this part of Central Texas, at a young age. Something he shares with his wife and three children today. In 1999, Bret graduated from Tarleton State University with a B.S. in turfgrass management and was hired by Rough Creek Lodge and Resort as superintendent of resort grounds and a couple years later as assistant superintendent at Lake Fork’s acclaimed championship golf course, The Links at Land’s End. Each of these positions allowed him unique opportunities and invaluable experience working on property development and enhancement projects. With a growing family and intent of raising his children on the family ranch near Hico, he returned in 2002 where he went to work for a land surveying company. After six years working in the land surveying industry, Bret started his own firm in 2008. He has had the pleasure of assisting clients with their land acquisitions and sales surveying farm and ranch property throughout Central Texas, including Bosque, Hamilton, Erath, Comanche, Mills, Lampasas, Coryell, Hill, and Somervell counties. He currently owns and operates Polk Land Surveying, specializing in farm and ranch boundary and topographic surveys. He has also worked with numerous land owners on private lake construction projects and the NRCS on flood control structure rehabilitation projects. In 2012, Bret received his Texas Real Estate License and joined the Hortenstine Ranch Company team. Bret uses his vast knowledge from surveying, land management, and land development to assist clients who desire to sell or purchase ranches for sale in Texas, more specifically in the Central Texas area.

Stephen Schwartz was raised in East Texas, where he graduated from White Oak High School. Most of his childhood was spent hunting and fishing in the woods of East Texas, where he learned at a very young age to respect the outdoors. Following his interests, he graduated from Texas A&M University in the spring of 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Systems Management with an emphasis on rangeland and wetland management. After he graduated he began working in the engineering department at the TXU Martin Lake Mines. He then worked for over a decade in the mining industry. For the first 7 years he worked in engineering as a surveyor and long-range planner, where he designed and led the construction of various projects ranging from initial clearing and mining activities, to permanent reclamation. Along with that he developed a special interest in land reclamation where he had hands on experience with many extensive watershed management projects. He also had a hand in developing many of the ponds, wetlands and reforested acres that are now enjoyed by many. He then spent the next 4 years as an operations supervisor learning the big picture of the entire mining process, further developing his leadership skills in managing people, money and machines. Overall he has gained a unique perspective in the importance of sound land stewardship and how vital it is to a successful ranching operation. His unique skill set enables him to clearly visualize a property’s potential and effectively communicate that to potential buyers. He is dedicated to use that knowledge to better understand the needs of each client and will go the extra mile to ensure they are met. Stephen is a committed steward of the land which shows through continuing his education through the Quality Deer Management Association as a level 2 Deer Steward, which specifically focuses on intensive management for white-tailed deer. He has also been an active member of several conservation organizations such as Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Delta Waterfowl, Quality Deer Management Association, Trout Unlimited, and National Wild Turkey Federation. Stephen is a committed husband to his wife, Lacie of 6 years, and new father to his son, West. He is a deacon at Mobberly Baptist Church in Longview and enjoys spending as much time as he can in the outdoors with both his wife and son.

Brian Smith, an Accredited Land Consultant, Certified International Property Specialist, Broker/Associate, Ranch and Country Property Division, of Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate - 45 years of farm and ranch real estate.

Brian is as passionate about country and ranch real estate as he is knowledgeable. He holds degrees in Earth Sciences and in Business Administration from the University of North Texas. He has been selling Ranch and Country Properties for over 45 years and is very well versed with knowledge of soils, grasses, pond construction and stocking rates, the creation of wildlife/waterfowl habitat and an understanding of minerals having worked as a drilling fluid engineer for Halliburton.  Other related experiences include being a breeder of race-bred quarter horses. He also has received the Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) and Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) designations in 1990 from the National Association of Realtors after years of study. Brian is known to give back to his industry and share his interests with others.

The Smith’s 730-acre ranch won the Lone Star Land Steward Award in 2011. This award is given by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Association for wildlife habitat enhancement of which Brian oversees at their ranch, “Trinity Bluff Wildlife Ranch” under a Level III Managed Lands Deer Program (MLDP). The Smith’s also share their love of the outdoors with school children, grades 1-7 and their teachers, through the L.A.N.D.S. courses (Learning Across New Dimensions in Science) in cooperation with the Texas Wildlife Association. Ranch and country properties have the ability to excite the senses, “The sights, the sounds, the wildlife in their natural habitat are all exhilarating.” What Brian loves the most about this category of real estate is seeing that excitement of the senses come to life by helping buyers and sellers realize what they can do to improve their land and how to optimize their resources.

In 1992, Brian was President of the State of Texas’ Realtor’s Land Institute.  He currently is serving on the National Association of REALTORS Land Use Committee (protecting private property rights), and was 2014-2015 NAR Presidential Liaison to Argentina. Brian has served as an expert witness for court cases involving mineral rights.  At the Texas Association of REALTORS, Brian has also worked with a task force to re-write the mineral reservation addendum. Additionally, his wife Leslie Rouda Smith, served as the 2012 Chairman of the Texas Association of REALTORS and recently as the 2022 President of the National Association of REALTORS.

For more information, contact Mr. Smith at 972-588-8300 or email brian@countryconnection.com. Photos of property listings may be viewed at www.countryconnection.com. Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate is an Ebby Halliday company.

 

Born in Austin, Texas, Tyler Thomas lived there until graduating from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in 2001. After graduation, he moved to Dallas to help launch SmartShield Sunscreens. Over the next 14 years, SmartShield grew into an industry leader within the safety and industrial market including clients such as the U.S. Military and niche retail markets focusing on active outdoor lifestyles, primarily fishing and hunting. Tyler operated as an owner and COO for SmartShield, and he consulted for numerous outdoor related and unrelated companies along the way. Then in 2015, Tyler decided to pursue his passion in land sales. 

 

At the beginning of 2020, Tyler founded TT Ranch Group on the principles of treating each client as a top priority and each property as their own. With a deep business background, his vast farm and ranch knowledge, and an extensive network, he proves to be a leader for his team and an asset to his clients. Backed by the world’s most powerful and prestigious realty brand, Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty and TT Ranch Group combine the industry’s best technology and marketing with innovative methods and expertise within the ranch real estate market.

For more information, visit www.ttranchgroup.com.

BERNARD (BERNIE) UECHTRITZ             

Icon Global | Founder

Icon Global designs and implements strategic,
tactical marketing and sales campaigns for unique, high-end properties globally.

Icon Global was founded by complex deal maker
and International real estate advisor, Bernard Uechtritz.
—
The Australian native most notably led the global marketing

and sale of the 535,000± acre W.T. Waggoner Ranch in Vernon, Texas.

Listed at $725 million. The largest ranch in North America under one contiguous fence,

in a world record sale that still stands today.

The group's marketing and sales success is unquestionably unparalleled.​