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RED FEATHER LAND & MINERALS

Owner stories

In their words

Each story below is an owner's, published with permission, with first name, county, and year. Dollar figures are theirs to share or not. Where a detail would identify a tract, we leave it out.

“A cloud on our title had held up a royalty check for more than a year. Two companies told us it would take months to sort out. Red Feather had it cleared at the courthouse and with the operator in five business days, and the suspended money came with the next check.”
[Client's first name] · [County] County · [year] — title cured, suspense released
“I inherited minerals from my uncle and had no idea what to do with the lease offer that came in the mail. Red Feather read it, told me what it was worth, and negotiated it for me. What is amazing is that I now get mailbox money — from the oil and from the gas and everything else that comes up with it.”
[Client's first name] · [County] County · [year] — inherited minerals, lease negotiated
“My family went with a large company that charges more and talks about the millions of acres it manages. I hired Red Feather. We own minerals in four separate properties across three counties, and today I am receiving a larger royalty check every month — and I talk to the owner once a week about strategy for the interests that are not producing yet.”
[Client's first name] · [Counties] · [year] — management, four tracts in three counties

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What the work looks like

Four matters we take, as they usually unfold

Illustrations drawn from the kinds of files a Permian landman sees — composites, not clients, and not quotes. The people are invented; the counties and the steps are real.

Suspense, before escheat · Ward County

The Garza sisters and one bad address

Rosa, Elena, and Marisol's mother had minerals under a Ward County section leased in the 1970s. Her checks stopped when she moved to assisted living in San Angelo. Two operators had been holding royalties in suspense for twenty-six months. The cure: a change of address, a copy of the probate, and division orders in the daughters' names. Released before the money was reported to the state — where the fee anyone could charge would have been capped and the wait longer.

Lease offer · Loving County

Dale Whitfield's letter with the deadline

A retired schoolteacher in Lubbock with 80 net acres in Loving County got a $900-an-acre bonus and a 3/16 royalty, "good for ten days." The plat showed four permits already approved across the road and a unit being assembled. The written opinion priced the offer against what nearby wells made; the negotiation came back with a higher bonus, a 1/4 cost-free royalty, and a Pugh clause so the lease could not hold acreage the company never drilled.

Estate · Pecos County

The Haskell heirs: twenty-two fractions, one account

The minerals under an old Pecos County ranch had split across two generations into twenty-two fractions, several too small for any operator to pay. Heirship affidavits for the two unprobated estates, a family LLC the attorney formed and we administer, and one division order per operator instead of twenty-two. Everyone is now paid, and the family has one number to call.

Pore space · Ector County

Nell Prather and the plume nobody mentioned

A surface owner near Penwell learned from the plat's Class VI overlay that a carbon-storage area of review had been drawn under part of her ranch. The storage company had planned to approach her last. The engagement: what pore space is worth, what the agreement must say about liability and surface use, and a negotiation that started from her number rather than theirs.

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