The Company

Eslabon Properties specilizes in brokering commercial agriculture facilities with commercial livestock facilities and particularly beef cattle feedyards being the majority of our projects. The entity is owned by Richard Bretz. Eslabon Properties is typically working on projects in numerous states either independently or in cooperation with local real estate professionals and, to the best of our knowledge, Eslabon Properties has closed the largest number of commercial feedyard transactions in the US of any brokerage company. Eslabon Properties or its owners have worked on projects in ten US States including Hawaii, and international projects in or with customers from Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Australia.

One aspect of our business that is different from most typical agricultural real estate transactions is the complexity of additional terms. These can involve confidentiality agreements, no-shop clauses, account receivables, account payables, inventories, feed or cattle financing, agister’s liens, hedge accounts, feeding agreements, employee retention, cropping operations, and more. We have extensive experience dealing with each of these and pride ourselves in finding solutions for the most challenging negoitations.

The name Eslabon is the spanish word for “link in a chain”. A link in a chain describes how we see ourselves in a typical transaction involving a commercial livestock production facility or other property. It is our job to fully explore the property for sale, help evaluate the market value of the property, help the owner decide if a confidential or public approach is most viable, filter through potential buyers, and then link the most likely one or two buyers with the seller. We pride ourselves in doing our research first and then showing most facilities only a few times before a transaction takes place.