2017 APEX Production Award Winners
Recognizing The Best In The Business
The APEX Awards Program celebrated its inaugural year with fifty applicants totaling a combined $1B+ in qualifying transaction volume.
We expect to see even bigger numbers this year!
The prestigious RLI APEX Awards Program, sponsored by The Land Report, is an annual production awards program designed to recognize the excellence and performance of our RLI Members — the best in the business — with these prestigious land real estate awards. Winners of our 2017 APEX Awards were recognized at a special awards ceremony at the 2018 National Land Conference (NLC18) in Nashville, TN.
All RLI Members are encouraged to apply for the awards program and all NLC attendees are encouraged to purchase a ticket to attend the awards ceremony live. All awards program applicants will have a ticket to the ceremony at NLC included in the price of application. The application submission deadline is at the end of January every year.
2017 Top National Producer APEX Award Winners (tie)
The APEX Top National Producer Award is the program’s most coveted and prestigious award recognizing the applicant with the highest qualifying transaction volume.
Dan Murphy
Top National Producer
Michael Murphy
Top National Producer
2017 National Broker of the Year (by category)
RLI is also proud to recognize the accomplishments of the APEX National Broker of The Year recipients in each of the following seven distinct land categories:
Troy Louwagie, ALC
Ag Land Sales – Crops
Dax Hayden
Ag Land Sales – Ranches
Dan Murphy
Recreational Land Sales (tie)
Michael Murphy
Recreational Land Sales (tie)
Clint Flowers, ALC
Timber Land Sales
Ryan Sampson, ALC
Commercial Land Sales
Danny Smith, ALC
Residential Land Sales
Troy Louwagie, ALC
Auction Land Sales
2017 Wrangler APEX Award
The APEX Wrangler Award goes to the applicant with the largest number of transactions closed during the year.
Troy Louwagie, ALC
Wrangler Award for most transactions closed.
2017 Top Twenty Producer APEX Award
- Rick Bourne, Southeastern Land Group, AL
- Ray Brownfield, ALC, Land Pro LLC, IL
- Steve Bruere, Peoples Company Of Indianola, IA
- Jason DurJava, ALC, Century 21 M&M and Associates Ag and Ranch, CA
- Bill Eshenbaugh, ALC, Eshenbaugh Land Company, FL
- Clint Flowers, ALC, National Land Realty, AL
- Kyle Hansen, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services, IA
- Dax Hayden, Hayden Outdoors LLC, CO
- Ryan Hostetler, ALC, Agprofessionals LLC, CO
- John Knipe, ALC, Knipe Land Company, ID
- Troy Louwagie, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services, IA
- Kasey Mock, KW LAND, Mock Ranches, TX
- Dan Murphy, M4 Ranch Group a division of Team Murphy Realty, LLC, CO
- Michael Murphy, M4 Ranch Group a division of Team Murphy Realty, LLC, CO
- Billy Rollins, ALC, Land Solutions, Inc., FL
- Ryan Sampson, ALC, Eshenbaugh Land Company, FL
- Dean Saunders, ALC, Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate, FL
- Danny Smith, ALC, Smith & Smith Realty, FL
- Bob Stalberger, ALC, Whitetail Properties Real Estate, LLC, MN
- Minor Taylor, ALC, Taylor Land Investments, TX
2017 APEX Producers Club
All applicants with at least four million dollars of qualifying dollar volume in closed land sales are recognized as part of the RLI APEX Producers Club.
- Matt Adams, Peoples Company Of Indianola, IA
- Daran Becker, Peoples Company, IA
- Rick Bourne, Southeastern Land Group, AL
- Sam Bowers, ALC, Bowers and Burns Real Estate Company, GA
- Ray Brownfield, ALC, Land Pro, LLC, IL
- Steve Bruere, Peoples Company of Indianola, IA
- Jared Chambers, Peoples Company, IA
- Brad Chandler, Buy A Farm Land & Auction Company, LLC, IL
- Bill Davis, Keller Williams Foothills Realty, CO
- Mike Downey, ALC, Hertz Farm Management, Inc., IA
- Jason DurJava, ALC, Century 21 M&M and Associates Ag and Ranch, CA
- Devin Dye, Ron Spencer Real Estate, OH
- Brenda England, First Realty Company, TN
- Bill Eshenbaugh, ALC, Eshenbaugh Land Company, FL
- Clint Flowers, ALC, National Land Realty, AL
- Wendy Forthun, ALC, 1 Stop Realty Inc., MN
- Jonathan Goode, ALC, Southeastern Land Group, AL
- Kyle Hansen, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services, IA
- Dax Hayden, Hayden Outdoors, LLC, CO
- Kenny Herring, ALC, Peoples Company, IA
- Ryan Hostetler, ALC, Agprofessional, LLC, CO
- Marv Huntrod, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services, IA
- John Knipe, ALC, Knipe Land Company, ID
- Stan Lierz, ALC, Hertz Farm Management, Inc., NE
- Troy Louwagie, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services, IA
- Rusty Lowe, ALC, Century 21 Harvey Properties Inc., TX
- Kasey Mock, Keller Williams Realty, KW Land, and Mock Ranches, TX
- Dan Murphy, M4 Ranch Group A Division of Team Murphy Realty, LLC, CO
- Michael Murphy, M4 Ranch Group A Division of Team Murphy Realty, LLC, CO
- Justin Osborn, The Wells Group Real Estate Brokerage, CO
- Calvin Perryman, ALC, Great Southern Land, AL
- Clayton Pilgrim, Century 21 Harvey Properties, TX
- Billy Rollins, ALC, Land Solutions, Inc., FL
- Ryan Sampson, ALC, Eshenbaugh Land Company, FL
- Dean Saunders, ALC, Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate, FL
- Chris Smith, ALC, Hertz Farm Management, IA
- Danny Smith, ALC, Smith & Smith Realty, FL
- Travis Smock, Peoples Company, IA
- Bob Stalberger, ALC, Whitetail Properties Real Estate, LLC, MN
- Jeramy Stephens, ALC, National Land Realty, AR
- Winnie Stortzum, ALC, Farmers National Company, IL
- Tommy Stroud, ALC, National Land Realty, GA
- Kirk Swenson, 1 Stop Realty Inc., MN
- Minor Taylor, ALC, Taylor Land Investments, TX
- Derrick Volchoff, ALC, Trophy Class Real Estate/Sports Afield Trophy Properties, MI
- Kirk Weih, ALC, Hertz Farm Management, Inc., IA
- Jim Wirth, TRI Commercial, CA
- Luke Worrell, ALC, Worell Land Services, LLC, IL
- Jason Ziegler, ALC, Whitetail Properties, MN
- Andrew Zellmer, Peoples Company, IA
