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Sell · Lease · Or Keep

Three honest options. Including the one where you keep everything.

Most buyers will only tell you about the option that pays them. Here’s the whole picture — sell, lease, or hold — with the trade-offs of each, in plain English. Because the right answer depends on your family, not ours.

Option One

Sell your minerals

You get
one lump sum, in writing, at closing. Certainty — no waiting on drilling schedules, commodity prices, or an operator's plans.
Best when
you want to simplify an estate, retire debt, diversify out of a single asset under one farm, or turn fractional inherited interests into clean, dividable money.
Trade-off
if a monster well comes in later, the upside belongs to the buyer. That's the honest deal: you trade the maybe for the sure.
Tax note
long-held minerals are often taxed as capital gains rather than ordinary income — frequently a lower rate than royalty checks. Confirm with your tax professional.

Option Two

Lease your minerals

You get
an up-front bonus payment per acre, plus a royalty percentage on anything produced. You still own the minerals.
Best when
your acreage is unleased in an area with active permitting, and you can afford to wait — possibly years, possibly forever — to see whether drilling actually happens.
Trade-off
a lease is a contract with fine print that matters enormously: gross vs. net royalties, deductions, pooling, shut-in clauses. Never sign one without your own attorney.
Our role
we lease minerals too, and we'll walk you through every clause of ours — including the ones other companies hope you won't read.

Option Three

Keep them

You get
to wait, collect any royalties, and decide later. Nothing wrong with that — minerals have been in your family this long.
Best when
you don't need the money, your interests aren't fractured across heirs, and you're comfortable riding commodity prices and decline curves.
Trade-off
royalties from shale wells typically fall steeply after the early years, and un-drilled acreage can sit un-drilled for decades. A “someday” well is not a retirement plan.
Our promise
if holding is genuinely your best move, we'll tell you so. We'd rather be the folks you call back in five years than the ones you regret.

What We Purchase & Lease

If it’s under eastern Ohio, we’re interested.

Producing or not. Leased or open. Whole interests or the one-eleventh share you inherited from an aunt you met twice. Small interests are welcome here — we know how much paperwork a little slice can generate, and we handle all of it.

Ask About Your Acreage

  • Producing minerals

    You're getting royalty checks now. We'll analyze the wells' decline curves and pay for the long tail of production — money you'd otherwise wait decades to collect.

  • Leased, not yet drilled

    You signed a lease, but no well yet. We price the probability, so you don't have to gamble on an operator's schedule.

  • Open, unleased acreage

    No lease, no wells. Depending on the township, this can still carry real value — often more than the letters in your mailbox suggest.

  • Fractional & inherited interests

    Undivided shares, life estates, interests tangled in an unsettled estate. We work with your attorney to untangle title at our expense.

  • Non-participating royalty interests

    You own a slice of the royalty stream but not the executive rights. Most buyers won't bother. We will.

How We Price

Our number comes from data. And we show you the data.

Every offer we make is built from public production records, permit activity, your unit’s actual royalty terms, current commodity strips, and real comparable sales — then discounted honestly for time and risk, not padded with a flipper’s resale margin.

When you get our written offer, the reasoning comes with it. If another buyer beats our number, ask them to show their work too. If they won’t, that tells you something. If they will and it’s truly better — take it, with our blessing. We only want the deals that are good on both sides of the table.

Not sure which option fits? That’s what the first call is for.

Fifteen unhurried minutes. We’ll tell you what we see — including “keep it” if that’s the truth.

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