are you a mineral owner?
We Buy Mineral Rights, Thoughtfully.
Owners
Like You.
People who own mineral rights are as different from each other as the lands the minerals are found under. We love talking to folks from all walks of life, ranges of experience, and knowledge about the industry. You may be a lifelong investor or industry professional. You may have inherited a sliver of your grandparent's property out in the country. Or you may have only just discovered you are the proud owner of something called "royalties." Whoever you are, we start by getting to know you, hearing your story, and building an authentic relationship. In fact we're not very interested in doing a deal without doing so. We even wrote a blog about mineral owners like you that you can read here if you'd like to go deeper.
You need to do something different, but what?
At Maevlo, we’ve been talking to mineral owners for decades. There are some common themes we’ve heard that might resonate with you. Monthly checks dwindle over time, you feel like selling might be a good idea but how can you know what your assets are worth? Big companies are hard to get through to with basic questions about selling. When you do get in touch, you encounter a big machine and all of your agency and negotiating powers are quickly swept off the table.
IT’S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE, BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN:
Who is trustworthy?
What are my minerals worth?
What are the next steps?
OUR PROCESS
Trust
It can be hard to separate the crooks from the honest players. But there is a gut-level feeling of trust that you need to arrive at when making a significant decision. We understand, so let’s start at the beginning. Let’s get to know each other, first. We’ve found that the phone is the best way. We can all tell pretty quickly if it will be a good fit or not.
Traditional negotiators only care about being the winner at all costs. We’re not that way. Real, meaningful value happens when all parties feel respected and treated fairly. This is how trust is built.
Let’s sit on the same side of the table. Or even better, stand on the same side of the truck.
Value or Worth
We dive deeper into the question of valuation and worth down below. It’s a topic that is loaded with expectations and presents the largest opportunity for conflict and hard-line negotiation. But, it doesn’t need to be this way and we are emphatically unique in how we honor peoples’ histories while applying common sense and logic to the questions of pricing, value and worth.
Most importantly, we know how to be creative, and rarely do we believe there is only one or two solutions. Ask us about the time we made a partial payment for minerals in the form of a brand-new pickup truck.
Working out the details
Once a shared value is established, we have a simple guide that will help you understand the transaction process. You sign some papers, the title gets filed at the courthouse, and we wire you your funds. Need something special, have a unique concern (we’ve heard plenty!), or have a question? We enjoy exploring this process with you. Just ask! Not every fund delves into opportunities in this way, but we do.
We’re eager to make this experience an open and transparent, simple, and ultimately satisfying one for everybody involved.
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Value or Worth?
Of course, the final number
is the first and last thing on everyone's mind.
We work a bit differently.
Only once we establish a base level of trust can we then start work on valuation. For us how we get to that handshake at the end matters as much as the number. We’ll come right alongside you to work towards a shared understanding of the real value of your assets. Once we're sitting on the same side of the table we can start looking at the more objective measures that give us a view on what the likely cash flows from your acres will be over the years.
We look at the wells that have been drilled on your land already and how they've performed. We'll look at wells in the area that are similar to yours. We consider who the well operators are and what kind of drilling activity they've been up to recently to measure the likelihood of new wells going in on or under your acres. Decline curves from other assets in the same geological formations can tell us what performance might look like down the road, and how it will decline over time. All of this gets mixed in with the much less certain questions of market pricing. It's not magic, and we'll share our thoughts transparently on that topic.
Many fear that the values of mineral assets are purely subjective and speculative numbers plucked out of the sky to benefit the buyers only, but that’s not the case! There are reason and data-based industry standards for assigning value to them. We’ll walk through this logic with you, and empower you with your own tools for research (if you want them!)
If we can’t find terms that work for everyone, that’s no problem. We’ll step back from the trade as friends, but it’s rare that we don’t move forward together.
Nuts & Bolts
This is exactly how it’s going to work
Buying your first car or house. Starting a new job in a new city. New endeavors can always feel shaky at first. Don't worry it's a straightforward process and we've walked this road with hundreds of sellers. But just to give you a sense of how it works, here's a one-page guide to the nuts and bolts of selling mineral rights.
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WHERE TO START
Everything starts at the exact same place: Your acres have a story.
That’s where we’ll begin, with our mouths closed and our ears open. We want to know you as a person, we want to understand your context.
Schedule that first call here.