The Family Business
Jeff Soele has been a licensed Realtor and real estate Broker for 25 years. Recently Jeff's sons, Lance and Cody, received their real estate licenses and joined Texas Best Ranches, opening offices in the Highland Lakes area and San Antonio. This family owned and operated business model extends beyond the buying and selling of real estate. Together, the Soeles' personally own four "live water" and game manager's hunting ranches near Medina, Vanderpool, and Utopia, Texas. In addition to owning and operating the four ranches, for years they ran a state of the art Whitetail deer breeding facility and exotic stock ranch near Bourne, with 300 genetically superior Whitetail deer. The Soele's have also owned and sold Zebra, Sable, Kudu, Gemsbok, Elk, Waterbuck, Elan, Bongos, Wildebeest, Bluebook, Blackbuck, Axis Deer, Fallow Deer, Sike Deer, and Wild Hogs.
Lance Soele
Lance Soele has been intimately involved in ranching his whole life. He grew up around cattle in a small Texas town. Lance has been selling ranches for four years and loves both selling property and maintaining the family ranches. Lance has personally raised numerous species of African game, Whitetail deer, and cattle. He has darted and tranquilized over one thousand animals and can help you with animal selection, pen placement, food plots, feed selection, drugs, dart guns, trapping and transporting techniques, etc.
Lance is familiar with all types of ranch equipment including tractors, pumps and other mechanical elements, hay production, etc. He can also provide resources to help with land clearing, road construction, and live water projects like dams and bridges. Lance has been involved in these types of projects of since he was just a young kid, and can give you an idea of what a property can be sculpted to look like, and what your property can produce. As Lance says, "Our ranches aren't just land, they are a lifestyle! And we have a passion for the ranch lifestyle. We enjoy what we do, and particularly enjoy helping others find that same love for ranching."
Cody Soele
Cody was born in San Antonio, Texas. He grew up on and around ranches, living in Boerne managing an exotic game ranch. He has a passion for the outdoors, and a love for hunting, fishing, and the beautiful Texas countryside. From the time Cody could walk he was in the truck showing properties along side his dad. At an early age he realized he did not want to spend his life indoors or behind a desk, he wanted to be out meeting people, and showing and selling land in the Texas Hill Country. Cody graduated from Ronald Reagan High School early with a plan. He immediately enrolled in the Alamo Institute for Real Estate school, received his license at the age of eighteen and went straight to work.
"Getting into the ranch real estate business is not an easy task, I have been blessed because of the name my father has built over the years and all of the knowledge he has given me. I want to carry on the legacy helping to build the reputation we have for selling high-end property."
Cody has spent so much time in the truck, on ranches, around deer, exotic animals, and equipment that he knows first-hand what it takes to own and operate a ranch in Texas. "My goal is to make your buying and selling experience smooth and enjoyable. Here at Texas Best Ranches we don't disappear when the money has been made. We want to be there to help in any way possible: improvement, employees, animal selection, etc. We establish relationships with our clients that go well beyond the sale, and that's why so many client's refer their friends and family, and end up as repeat customers."
