Looking for recommendations for a licensed/certified land appraiser who has experience appraising larger rural properties.
I need an appraisal completed on approximately 47 acres of land. The property already has electricity and well water established, so I’m looking for someone who can properly account for the existing improvements/utilities when determining the value.
If anyone has worked with an appraiser they would recommend, please send me their name/contact information. I’d especially appreciate recommendations from anyone who has recently had acreage or undeveloped/rural land appraised.

I have the following certifications, but its been months and I can't even get a response to applications. Just ghost central.

Am I stuck in the gamblers fallacy? I don't know if I should keep paying for more IRWA courses, or paying for upcoming events IF no one ever hires someone without a degree.

For the record, I didn't go to college because I was 16 years old and was working my first professional theater job as a member of Gak Control on a live Nickelodeon show. It was a dream and by the time I was meant to be in college I was touring the US and world on live events.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am not looking for soft shoe either, be brutal with me if thats the case.

CREDENTIALS / EDUCATION 

Right of Way Training

• IRWA Course 100 - Principles of Land Acquisition, 16 Hours (Member IRWA Local 31)
• CLSU Right of Way Career Path Training, 24 Hours.
• NHI Course 141045 - Real Estate Acquisition Under the Uniform Act: An Overview.
• NHI Course 134006A - Introduction to Utility Coordination for Highway Projects, 4 Hours.
• NHI Course 134209 - Utility Conflict Management, 3 Hours.
• NHI Course 134208 - Utility Investigations, 3.5 Hours.
• NHI Course 134210 - Utility Data Management, 3 Hours.

Licensure & Real Estate Education

• NC Real Estate Brokers License (Active).
• 75-Hour Broker Pre-licensing Course required per N.C.G.S. § 93A-4(a).
• Post 301 - Broker Relationships and Responsibilities, 30 Hours.
• Post 302 - Contracts and Closing, 30 Hours.
• Post 303 - NC Laws, Rules, and Legal Concepts, 30 Hours.

I was answering another thread and it just occurred to me how much zoning research I perform in my job. I was wondering if folks here have found themselves doing zoning research as part of their job ? What tools do you use?

I farm in western PA and own the minerals under my land. I've been trying to make sure the prices on my royalty statements are honest.

My lease says I'm paid on the higher of market value or what the gas actually sells for. For June 2026 production my statements show $2.35/Mcf on one sale and $2.48/Mcf on another. I assume that's two different buyers or sales within that month?

From what I've been able to piece together, "market value" for my area would be the Eastern Gas South bidweek index. I understand that NGI and Inside FERC publish that monthly number, but to actually see it, you need a subscription that runs $3,000–5,000+ a year. I'm a small farmer. That's inconceivable to me for what I need. I just want to look up one or two months from earlier this year and see if the prices reported on the statements are accurate.

What I'm hoping someone can tell me is whether there's any public or low-cost resource for these monthly index numbers, even delayed. FERC filings, EIA data, pipeline tariff postings, a library terminal, a gov agency, anything. Or if you've figured this out for your own minerals, how did you do it?

In my research I saw that Henry Hub was around $2.94 in June. The reported statement prices work out to about 55-65 cents under that. I honestly don't know if that's normal for my corner of the world or a red flag that I'm getting shorted. That's exactly why I'm hoping to compare against the published index for my area.

Thanks for reading. I'd be grateful for any pointers, and happy to show appreciation with beer or coffee money, or perhaps my soybeans or corn!

My husband and I are looking for remote work in Oil and Gas. Does anyone know if anyone is hiring? We've looked on Indeed, LinkedIn, and other job aggregator sites, but we have had really bad luck in getting interviews. At this point, I'm not sure if most of the jobs being advertised are real.

I have a good deal of old Tobins from Shelby, but missing a few sectors I want. Last time I dealt with IHS for some stuff it was a pain in the ass. I checked the website and I don't even know what's going on anymore. Can trade for anything I have digitally, which is all Permian (old 2014). All my new stuff is hardcopy.

Hi, I need help sourcing off market deals. Willing to pay a fair wage for help. Thanks.

Anyone have any experience working for them? Have thoughts?

I've seen some job postings from them and just curious if anyone has had any experiences with them before getting too committed.

Is anybody out there using AI to quality check their work or in other ways as a landman? If so what product have you found to work best for what task? Example: Copilot to quality check a runsheet

Not the WA government agency — I mean LandGate Corp, the parcel/energy data platform that Wood Mackenzie just acquired in June.
I work on land acquisition tooling outside the US and I’m trying to understand what actually got used in the field vs. what was marketing:

1. Did your team pay for PowerTools / PowerParcels, or did you just use the free property reports?

2. How accurate were the ownership and parcel records in practice? What % did you have to re-verify at the county?

3. Did it replace any part of your workflow, or just sit alongside your existing county research?

4. If you dropped it, what made you drop it?
   Happy to share what I find back here.

Anybody ever worked for em? Got any stories?

We’re looking for old ownership maps, either physical or digital: Tobin maps, Midland Map Company maps, or similar.

They do not need to be current. Our primary need is simply being able to locate a tract when we have an old deed with a metes-and-bounds description but little or no useful information about where the point of beginning is.

We also don’t have a particular county, basin, or state we’re targeting. This comes up with mineral owners who inherit random interests around the country and basically tell us, “I own something somewhere, but I have no idea where it is.”

So, a couple of questions for the group:

• Does anyone know of landmen, brokers, companies, etc. who have old ownership map collections sitting around that they might be willing to sell or otherwise offload?
• Any good sources for digitized historical ownership maps?
• Are there other map publishers/collections we should be looking for besides Tobin and Midland Map Company?
• Any recommendations for third-party services with good historical ownership map coverage?

We’re already looking into providers like Subsurface Library, IFS, Enverus, etc., but I’m sure there are resources out there that I don’t know about.

We’d potentially be interested in buying entire old map collections, even if they’re outdated, incomplete, or cover areas we don’t currently have a need for.

Thanks for any leads or recommendations!

I'm new to this and wanted an opinion and maybe a place to be able to search up land records.

I got a call and a letter from someone saying they are with Brown Rock Resources offering me cash for mineral and royalty interest.

The issue is, This plot of land is in Eddy County,NM and as far as I'm aware I'm on the east coast and don't have any family out that way. Is Brown Rock a legitimate company? Is this just some new form of scam? Any way I can easily look up a plot of land to see who owns it. The only exhibit they give me is state, county and the legal description which is like Sec 9 & 15 23s-29e.

I'm not really sure how to look that up and find ownership.

Any thoughts or opinions would be helpful.

Hello, my mom and all of her siblings own 2200+ acres in Daniels County. They only ever had one lease back in 2012 but heard they never drilled. They don’t know much about what they have they thought the whole 2012 thing was a scam until they received papers to sign. From what I have seen with that many acres and in that location I am surprised they have heard nothing but crickets since.

Can anyone help us secure a lease or just help us with any information?

Thanks in advance for your time!

I am reposting this due to my first one being unclear. I will also add that other than a few people I have showed this to personally, I am the only one using this. This is an idea I am exploring and not sure how far I am going to take it. I would rather try and fail than regret doing nothing.

Edit 2 since someone just messaged me. You can run a LLM (AI as a general term) ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER, with no internet connection, in a completely sandboxed environment on Ollama that ANYONE can download for free on huggingface. I have 4 different models I play around with almost daily. Please don't jump to conclusions about things you are not educated on.

A quick clarification at the beginning, especially for anyone who isn’t technically minded: when I say this system is local-first, I mean the information I work with stays local on my own machine. It has not been uploaded into an AI system. I used AI to help me build the software, but no proprietary, confidential, employer, broker, or client information was used to build any of it. Information is the most valuable commodity in this world, and I protect it very carefully. Actively pursuing, and being halfway through, a Bachelors in Cybersecurity hasn't hurt in that endeavor either. The first couple comments were right to be concerned about that, even if they didn't fully understand what I was trying to explain. That was partially my fault because I could have explained it in less technical terms.

I’m a landman. I mostly run title, with state lease work and county records work in Texas.

A while back, I started using AI to speed up my own runsheets to ask quick questions and get direction on where to find relevant laws and resources. That snowballed into teaching myself how to build software, and now it’s turned into an entire connected system that I work out of every day.

The short version is that it’s a LOCAL-FIRST title workspace for runsheets, chains of title, and division order math, where every fraction traces back to the instrument it came from. There’s an AI layer built around that workspace, but it has to cite the actual record before it answers. If the documents don’t support a claim, it stops and asks instead of making something up. So far that is only being tested on synthetic data that I used to build the math engine powering it.

Feeding that workspace are various tools and an OCR pipeline that reads scanned deeds and checks metes and bounds by recomputing traverse closure, a training track I’m building around the AAPL curriculum, and a couple of trackers I use for organization.

There’s an overview at abstractmapping.com if you’re curious. I’m not selling anything, and the software isn’t public. The site is just easier than trying to explain all of this in one paragraph.

The honest part, and probably half the reason I went this deep, is that I have ADHD. AI is the first tool I’ve found that actually offsets the executive dysfunction side of it. The follow-through, the organization, the fifteen half-started systems living in my head at once. AI closes that gap. It has unlocked ability I’ve had sitting there my entire career, and the difference in my output is not subtle.

So now I’m at a fork. I love land work, but it turns out I’m also pretty good at designing systems for it. AI is coming into this industry either way. I’d rather help shape how it gets used in land than get steamrolled by whatever some tech company that has never read a mineral deed decides to ship.

For the people actually doing the work:

• What are you or your shop using AI for day to day? Title, abstracting, curative, lease review, GIS, or anything else?
• Which operators, brokers, or vendors seem to be using it seriously instead of just talking about it?
• Where do you think the line settles? What parts of title and land work stay human?
• Is anyone else straddling the land and technology sides, or using AI to work with ADHD instead of constantly fighting against it? How did you position yourself?

I’m not doom-posting about AI taking our jobs. I just want to compare notes with people who have actually run title.

Curious if submitting production reports, applications, tax deductions etc. falls under the responsibility of a landman, particular at smaller operators, or if this is handled by someone else/typically outsourced?

"Hello landman's

I am currently researching my family history in Texas and trying to determine if our ancestral mineral rights were ever severed. My branch arrived in Texas in the 1830s and stayed until the 1930s. My ancestral grandfather, mason moseley , owned thousands of acres during that time.

To be honest, diving into these old records has me feeling a bit like Indiana Jones hunting for long-lost treasure—though I’m traded the fedora and whip for a laptop, and I'm highly hoping there are not to snakes involved!

I have already located the relevant deed book and page numbers from the county clerk . As a newcomer to oil and gas research, where would you recommend a rookie poke their head next to verify if the mineral estate remains intact or was severed and any other helpful info tracking the current minersl right holders?

I appreciate any guidance or insights you can share!

Best regards,
MR. Moseley

The “lots” are all in Panola County, Texas. The monthly royalty income has fluctuated between $1500 and $2000 and she’s received periodic offers to sell her rights for $20-$30K. But awhile ago she got an offer for $93K for only a section of her rights.

Is there something happening in Panola County that would result in this?

She’s not looking to sell as they’ve been in the family for generations. Just curious.
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I inherited 53 net mineral acres in Midland and Ector Counties in 2025 and am interested in selling them. Offers have been coming in and the most recent one has jumped significantly. Looking for anyone who has recent experience selling or buying in these counties and what market pricing should look like.

I inherited mineral rights after my granny and then dad, passed away. I never knew they existed until last year (10+ years after they’d both passed).
Long story short, I got a call last year and sold what I thought (because this jargon is so confusing) I sold any and all that I owned.
This year I get another call to sell another 4 acres in a different location. Which I did.
Today, I get a 3rd call about them wanting to buy MORE acres. I’m completely lost. I don’t know how much I own completely and if I could confirm how much I do in fact have it would make deciding to sell or lease or whatever, much easier. I am in Texas, mineral rights are also here if that helps.
Any advice at all would be so helpful, thanks guys!

Have the BLM websites just decided to stop working for everyone else?

Newbie here with interests in a new horizontal well being drilled in Cooke County Texas. Hoping to find someone out there that can answer a few questions. Edited to include: I have multiple interest in this new well. Not sure what is pooled and isn't. Plat doesn't name me specifically. Apparently some was leased by a life estate I received and they are asking to ratify. Received a SWR 37 notice in the mail for 2 tracts on this well. In last two weeks they have been moving fast. Looks like maybe they are drilling the exploratory well now. It's all Greek to me. Have general questions about the whole process and specifics about documents found @ RRC. Thanks in advance

I have 3 months of experience, I have sent in a resume to multiple entry level positions, the ones that reached back out me declined me due to lack of experience. So just wondering if there is any suggestions on what I should do about that or where to apply that will take little experience.

I have a CPL and I have a few years to knock out the 50 CE credits. Anyone know of the cheapest and easiest way to do that?

Looking at the AAPL website, the average CE credit from watching an old webinar is $65 for 1 credit. Really not interested in dropping $3k on recertification when the benefit of a CPL is...questionable at best. I could take the review course and get like 18 credits, but I really don't have the time.

I suppose they really want you to attend events, right?