For landmen & land brokerages

Move faster. Take more work. Skip the drive.

There's a shortage of Texas landmen, and you know it. County.Land is the leverage layer underneath your day-rate work, we pull every recorded instrument in the county before you ever open a tract file, so when the project lands you're abstracting, not photocopying volume indices in Centerville at 4 p.m. Day-rate or document-fee billing, with a receipt shaped however you need it.

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Two ways landmen use County.Land

Different work, same leverage.

Independent landmen and land brokerages run differently, one's a day-rate operator carrying their own book, the other is a shop assigning crews. The County.Land service plugs into both, but the conversation and the billing model look different. Pick the one that matches you.

Independent landman

Working a tract, or a handful of tracts. Probably for more than one client.

You took the project on a day rate. The seller wants the report Friday. Your other client wants you in Fairfield on Wednesday. The records you need are at the courthouse 4 hours away. County.Land collapses the records-stitching part so you can keep both clients happy without the windshield time.

  • Section & abstract runsheets, name the county, the survey/abstract, the section. We filter our full-county index to your polygon and return the Foundation workbook (Limited_Runsheet, Index_Plant, Index_DI_TT, Summary). Typically inside 48 hours.
  • Custom document pulls, name the vol/page or instrument range; we dispatch a Texas field abstractor with a copy stand. Captures land in your secure folder same-day.
  • Flexible billing, your day rate, or a per-document fee, or a flat per-section price. The receipt can be itemized however your client needs to see it for reimbursement.
  • Even if it's not reimbursable, the time savings clear weeks off your calendar, weeks you can spend on more billable tracts, or just not driving.
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Land brokerage

Running a crew across one or more counties. Multiple landmen, a project deadline, a client on the phone.

You assign tracts; your landmen run them. The bottleneck isn't ability, it's the same courthouse trip multiplied by every landman on the project. The full Foundation gives the entire crew one shared, normalized records layer for the county, so everyone is abstracting against the same indexed source and nobody is re-doing the same volume pull.

  • Foundation (Light or Premium), full-county OCR'd records, normalized instrument table, well/permit overlay, GLO survey grid, mineral severance traces, shared across your crew on a brokerage license.
  • Surge capacity, when you take on a project that needs 6 landmen for 3 weeks, we slot in AAPL-member senior landmen and landtecs on day rates to flex with you.
  • Pre-engagement scoping, before you bid the project, we'll size the county's data depth and surface known curative pain so your bid reflects reality.
  • Invoice formats, itemized by tract, by section, by crew member, or as a single monthly retainer. Whatever the client's procurement system expects.
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Billing & receipts

However you need the invoice to read.

We've worked with enough landman accounting teams to know that the right receipt format is half the battle. Tell us what your end client's reimbursement policy looks like and we'll shape the invoice to match.

Day rate

Standard senior-landman or landtec day rates. Itemized by date, work performed, and tract / survey / abstract reference. Easiest to roll into your own time sheet.

Document fee

Per-instrument, per-vol/page, or per-section fee. Reads on the receipt like a courthouse document fee + abstractor's transcription, which is what many client expense policies expect.

Flat scope

Section runsheet, abstract runsheet, or full-county Foundation at a fixed price. Easiest to bid into a project budget; no surprise overruns.

Monthly retainer

For brokerages running multiple projects, a flat monthly retainer plus per-tract overflow. Predictable for finance; flexible for ops.

Whichever model you pick, the underlying work is the same, we deliver the records-and-analysis foundation; you deliver the title work that needs your name on it.

The math the landman shortage created

Even if your client won't reimburse it.

The Texas landman bench is tight and getting tighter. The work isn't slowing down. The math any honest day-rate landman runs is this: an hour spent at a courthouse photocopying a volume index is an hour you didn't bill on a tract, and an hour you didn't spend with your family. County.Land's section/abstract runsheets typically save a senior landman two to five working days per tract on counties we've already indexed. Over a year that's weeks of recovered time, time you can spend taking on more billable tracts, or just doing the parts of the job that brought you into it in the first place.

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