Looking for hunting land, recreational property, a working farm, a timber tract, or a country home on acreage in the Missouri Ozarks? Justin Head and Ryan Record help buyers find the right property, with Franklin, Gasconade, Crawford, Phelps, and Dent counties as home base — whether you’re searching the active MLS, the Whitetail Properties national network, or off-market opportunities only available through agent relationships.

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Buyer Representation for Land and Country Homes

Buying rural property is not like buying a house in town. You may be buying a residence, but you are also buying access, water, timber, pasture, fencing, outbuildings, privacy, hunting potential, and decades of title history. The house and the land have to work together, and the contract has to account for both.

Justin Head and Ryan Record are Whitetail Properties Land Specialists representing buyers of farms, hunting and recreational land, timber, rural acreage, investment property, and country homes in the Missouri Ozarks. Franklin, Gasconade, Crawford, Phelps, and Dent Counties are home, and on the buying side we are not limited to them.

Your Interests Drive the Work

When we represent you as a buyer, the job is not to talk you into acreage. It is to understand what you want, find what would make a property the wrong fit, and represent your interests from the first search through closing.

Sometimes that means moving fast when the right property shows up. Sometimes it means asking harder questions, renegotiating, or walking away. The goal is not to get a property under contract. It is to buy the right property on terms that make sense.

Find the Right Opportunities

We search active MLS inventory, the Whitetail Properties national network, other brokerages, and opportunities that are not broadly marketed yet. Tell us the county, acreage, property type, budget, and how you intend to use it, and we will help separate the properties that genuinely fit from the listings that only look good online.

Walk the Land and Tour the Home

We do not evaluate rural property from listing photographs. We walk the ground, tour the residence and improvements, study the access, and look at how the property actually functions: roads and trails, timber, pasture, water, fencing, food plots, outbuildings, utilities, neighboring land use, and how the house and the acreage relate to each other.

A good house does not fix unusable land, and good land does not make the residence worth what the seller is asking. Both sides of the property matter.

Understand the Value

Rural property rarely fits a price-per-square-foot calculation. We compare it against relevant closed sales and weigh the separate value of the residence, outbuildings, tillable ground, pasture, timber, water, access, recreational features, and development influence. The point is not to find a number that justifies the asking price. It is to find what the evidence supports and build the offer from there.

Prepare and Negotiate the Contract

Once you decide to proceed we prepare the offer, draft deal-specific provisions where they are needed, and negotiate price, contingencies, personal property, possession, inspections, financing, survey, title work, and the closing timeline.

Justin is a Missouri-licensed attorney and the former President and CEO of a Franklin County title company. That tends to matter most when a deal involves easements, access, boundary questions, leases, timber rights, mineral reservations, owner financing, 1031 exchanges, or unusual closing terms.

The contract is where the transaction gets built. Those details should not be left for everyone to work out after the offer is signed.

Run Down the Details

Before closing we work through the questions that matter on rural property:

• Title and recorded easements
• Legal and physical access
• Existing surveys and boundary questions
• Wells, septic systems, utilities, and internet availability
• Timber, pasture, fencing, ponds, creeks, and drainage
• Hunting leases, farm tenants, and possession
• Zoning, restrictions, and your intended use
• Home, shop, barn, and outbuilding inspections

We are not a substitute for a surveyor, engineer, home inspector, forester, or lender. When one is needed we help get the right professional involved and keep the information moving.

Get It Closed

An accepted offer is the beginning, not the finish line. We coordinate with the lender, title company, inspectors, surveyor, and the seller’s side, track the deadlines, and work the problems as they come up.

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What We Help Buyers Find

• Hunting land — whitetail and turkey-managed tracts, food plot programs, water access
• Recreational land — cabin sites, ATV/UTV ground, fishing creeks, kayaking access
• Working farms & pasture — hay ground, row crop, fenced grazing land
• Timber tracts — hardwood ridges, pine plantations, managed timber assets
• Country homes & farmsteads — houses on acreage with shops, barns, and outbuildings
• Horse property — barns, arenas, and pasture
• Creek, river & waterfront property — frontage, springs, and water features
• Recreational estates — combined home and acreage, custom-built retreats
• Investment land — 1031 exchange targets, off-market opportunities for qualified buyers
• Rural acreage & building sites — smaller tracts to build on

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Do Justin Head and Ryan Record represent buyers?

Yes. Justin Head and Ryan Record represent buyers searching for farms, hunting and recreational land, timber, rural acreage, investment property, and country homes in the Missouri Ozarks. Franklin, Gasconade, Crawford, Phelps, and Dent Counties are home, and on the buying side we are not limited to them. We can help with properties listed through Whitetail Properties, properties listed by other brokerages, and off-market opportunities where appropriate.

Tell Us What You’re Looking For

Send us your wish list and we will start watching. We will only reach out when something fits, not for everything.

Justin Head · (573) 308-7376 · justin.head@whitetailproperties.com

Ryan Record · (573) 259-6360 · ryan.record@whitetailproperties.com