We work the chain of title from the deed records up to a producing well. County by county.
We negotiate and acquire oil and gas leases directly from mineral owners and their heirs — standard Texas form leases, with bonus paid up front and royalties on production.
We work as principal. When NechesLand presents a lease offer, we are ourselves the lessee — not a broker shopping your minerals to a third party we won’t name. The lease is between you and us, in writing, mailed for your review, signed at your kitchen table on your own time.
Lease bonuses in the four-county area currently fall in line with regional averages for the Haynesville and Deep Bossier formations. Specific terms depend on tract size, depth severance, existing lease overlap, and whether the interest is a fee mineral or a non-participating royalty.
Before any lease, we run the chain of title.
That means deeds, probates, wills, tax rolls, mineral severance instruments, releases of prior leases, division orders, and any court orders touching the tract — pulled from the deed records of the county where the minerals sit and reconciled into a working chain of title. The title work is on us, whether or not it leads to a lease.
We use a hybrid approach: physical visits to the courthouses in Centerville, Fairfield, Palestine, and Franklin, plus modern digital access where it’s available. Some of these counties have indexed records back to statehood; some have gaps from nineteenth‑century courthouse fires that have to be worked around with affidavits and corroborating instruments.
When the chain of title has gaps — missing heirs, unrecorded deeds, old probates filed in the wrong county — we resolve them.
Most commonly that’s an Affidavit of Heirship under Texas Estates Code § 203.001, executed by two disinterested witnesses who knew the deceased and the family. We identify the right witnesses, prepare the document, run the signing through a Remote Online Notary so nobody has to drive to a courthouse, and file the executed affidavit in the deed records of the county where the minerals sit.
We also handle stipulations of interest, ratifications, corrective deeds, releases, and quitclaims when those are the right tool. The goal is always the same: a clean, recordable title that a title attorney can sign off on.
We’re not a brokerage. We don’t shop your minerals to unnamed third parties. We don’t charge fees, take retainers, or sell your information. We don’t work outside Leon, Freestone, Anderson, and Robertson counties.
If your interest is somewhere else in Texas or a neighboring state, we’ll tell you so plainly and, where we can, point you toward someone who works that area.
Tell us a little about a relative who may have owned land or minerals in one of these counties. We’ll research the title at no cost and let you know what we find.