NLC19 RLI APEX Awards Ceremony: Recognizing the Best in Business
2018 APEX Award Winners
2018 Top National Producer APEX Award Winner
The APEX Top National Producer Award is the program’s most coveted and prestigious award recognizing the applicant with the highest qualifying transaction volume.

Dean Saunders, ALC
Top National Producer
2018 Wrangler APEX Award
The APEX Wrangler Award goes to the applicant with the largest number of transactions sides closed during the year.

Geoff Hurdle, ALC
Wrangler Award
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:

Ray Brownfield, ALC
Ag Land Sales – Crops

Dean Saunders, ALC
Ag Land Sales – Ranches

Kasey Mock
Recreational Land Sales

Chandlar Graham
Timberland Sales

Eric Frickle, ALC
Commercial Land Sales

Marty Domres, ALC
Residential Land Sales

Steve Bruere
Auction Land Sales
2018 APEX ALC-to-ALC Networking Awards
In recognition of the tremendous networking opportunities available to RLI Members, especially those that have earned the elite Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) Designation, the APEX Awards also features two ALC-to-ALC Networking Awards:
- Largest ALC-to-ALC Transaction – Dean Saunders, ALC, Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate, Fla; Ben Crosby, ALC, Crosby & Associates, Fla.; and Murray Wise, ALC, Murray Wise Associates, LLC, Ill.
- Largest ALC-to-ALC Referral – Minor Taylor, ALC, Taylor Land Investments, Texas, to Ray Brownfield, ALC, Land Pro, LLC, Ill., and John Moss, ALC, The Loranda Group, Inc., Ill.
2018 Top Twenty Producer APEX Award
- Ray Brownfield, ALC
Land Pro LLC.
Oswego, IL - Steve Bruere
Peoples Company Of Indianola
Indianola, IA - Matt Davis
Cushman & Wakefield
San Diego, CA - Marty Domres, ALC
Domres Real Estate Investments
Riverview, FL - Bill Eshenbaugh, ALC
Eshenbaugh Land Company
Tampa, FL - Andy Flack, ALC
Homeland Properties
Huntsville, TX - Eric Frickle, ALC
Eric Conrad Frickle Commercial Realty
Corona, CA - Chandler Graham
Larson & McGowin Properties LLC
Mountain Brook, AL - Walter Hatchett, ALC
Jon Kohler and Associates
Bainbridge, GA - Dave Klein, ALC
First Mid Ag Services
Bloomington, IL
- Troy Louwagie, ALC
Hertz Real Estate Services
Mt. Vernon, IA - Kasey Mock
The Mock Ranches Group and Keller Williams Realty
Austin, TX - Robb Nelson
Mirr Ranch Group
Denver, CO - Todd Renfrew, ALC
California Outdoor Properties, Inc.
Vacaville, CA - Frank Roberts, ALC
RE/MAX Landmark
Terrell, TX - William Rollins, ALC
Land Solutions, Inc.
Fort Myers, FL - Ryan Sampson, ALC
Eshenbaugh Land Company
Tampa, FL - Dean Saunders, ALC
Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate
Lakeland, FL - Sheldon Snyder, ALC
Clift Land Brokers
Dalhart, TX - Chuck Wingert, ALC
Wingert Realty and Land
Mankato, MN
2018 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.
- Eric Andrews, ALC, Realty World Carolina Properties
- Brian Andrus, ALC, Stonebridge Real Estate Company
- Matt Armstrong, Chisum Realty and Auction
- Drew Ary, ALC, KW Ary Land and Home
- Daran Becker, Peoples Company
- Rick Bourne, Southeastern Land Group
- Sam Bowers, ALC, Bowers and Burns Real Estate
- Ray Brownfield, ALC, Land Pro LLC
- Steve Bruere, Peoples Company
- Jared Chambers, Peoples Company
- Matthew Clarahan, Hertz Real Estate Services
- George Clift, ALC, Clift Land Brokers
- Matt Conser, ALC, Conser Realty and Associates
- Mark Crews, ALC, Florida & Georgia Inland Realty
- Bill Davis, ALC, KW Foothills Realty
- Matthew Davis, Cushman & Wakefield
- Cal Dickson, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Marty Domres, ALC, Domres Real Estate Investments
- Devin Dye, Ron Spencer Real Estate
- Bill Eshenbaugh, ALC, Eshenbaugh Land Company
- Andy Flack, ALC, Homeland Properties
- Bradford Fletcher, SIOR, Newmark Knight Frank
- Clint Flowers, ALC, National Land Realty
- Wendy Forthun, ALC, 1 Stop Realty
- Eric Frickle, ALC, Eric Conrad Frickle Commercial Realty
- Christine George, Deitra Robertson Real Estate, Inc
- Virgil George, ALC, United Country – Rocking X Land Company
- Matt Glander, Whitetail Properties
- Greg Good, Clift Land Brokers
- Jonathan Goode, ALC, Southeastern Land Group
- Chandler Graham, Larson and McGowin Properties
- Kyle Hansen, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Suzanne Haslup, ALC, Meybohm Real Estate
- Walter Hatchett, ALC, Jon Kohler and Associates
- Jeff Heil, ALC, Whitetail Properties
- Scott Henrichsen, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Kenny Herring, ALC, Peoples Company
- Ryan Hostetler, ALC, AgProfessionals
- Marv Huntrods, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Service
- Geoff Hurdle, ALC, Hurdle Land and Realty
- Darrell Hylen, ALC, Wingert Realty and Land
- Chad Kies, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Dave Klein, ALC, First Mid Ag Services
- John Knipe, ALC, Knipe Land Company
- Michael Krause, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Zurick Labrier, ALC, Mason and Morse Ranch Group
- Eric Leisy, ALC, Great Southern Land Co.
- Stan Lierz, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Eric Lonnevik, Peoples Company
- Troy Louwagie, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Rusty Lowe, ALC, Century 21 Harvey Properties
- Tyler McConnell, ALC, Comey & Shepherd, REALTORS-Southern Ohio Properties
- Clay McCullar, ALC, KW Land, McCullar Properties
- Caleb McDow, ALC, Crosby and Associates
- Chris Miller, ALC, American Forest Management
- Kasey Mock, Mock Ranches at Keller Williams
- Jeff Moon, Agwest Land Brokers
- Dan Murphy, M4 Ranch Group
- Michael Murphy, M4 Ranch Group
- Robb Nelson, Mirr Ranch Group
- Justin Osborn, ALC, The Wells Group
- Calvin Perryman, ALC, Great Southern Land Co.
- Robert Pfister, ALC, Pfister Land Company
- Clayton Pilgrim, ALC, Century 21 Harvey Properties
- Todd Renfrew, ALC, California Outdoor Properties, Inc.
- Frank Roberts, ALC, RE/MAX Landmark
- Deitra Robertson, ALC, Deitra Robertson Real Estate, Inc
- William Rollins, ALC, Land Solutions, Inc.
- Ryan Sampson, ALC, Eshenbaugh Land Company
- Dean Saunders, ALC, Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate
- Chris Smith, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Danny Smith, ALC, Smith and Smith Realty
- Tom Smith, ALC, Tom Smith Land and Homes
- Travis Smock, Peoples Company
- Sheldon Snyder, ALC, Clift Land Brokers
- Jeramy Stephens, ALC, National Land Realty
- Winnie Stortzum, ALC, Farmers National Company
- Michael Strahan, ALC, Eshenbaugh Land Company
- Kirk Swenson, 1 Stop Realty
- Rick Taylor, ALC, Mossy Oak Properties Forest Investments, Inc.
- Minor Taylor, ALC, Taylor Land Investments
- Reid Thompson, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Michael Turner, Whitetail Properties
- Eric Turpen, Clift Land Brokers
- Randall Upchurch, Southeastern Land Group
- Matt Vegter, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Jim Vidamour, ALC, Fay Ranches, Inc.
- Russell Walters, Southeastern Land Group
- Kirk Weih, ALC, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Ben Wellons, Wellons Real Estate
- Eric Wilkinson, Hertz Real Estate Services
- Chuck Wingert, ALC, Wingert Realty and Land
- Jim Wirth, ALC, TRI Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc.
- Tucker Wood, Farmers National Company
- Luke Worrell, ALC, Worrell Land Services
- Doug Yegge, Peoples Company
- Jim Zeller, KW Commercial Midwest
- Andrew Zellmer, Peoples Company
- Jason Ziegler, ALC, Whitetail Properties
- Garrett Zoller, ALC, landandwildlife.com