Bates County Real Estate

We have listed three new farms in Missouri and are working on some more to come soon. I thought I would share some of them with you here.

We are very excited about the increase in the number of horse farms and some crop land we are helping out clients sell.

The first is a wonderful horse farm near Odessa, MO listed at $1,600,000 this is truly and equestrian facility.  There are many barns with a riding arena and 48 custom built horse stalls.

The house is an amazing 3600 Square Foot ranch home, with four bedrooms and a huge three car garage! Located on nearly 50 acres of lush green pastures, it is quite a site to see! You can view more information here; Missouri horse farm for sale. 

Oak Grove, MO farm for sale, just under 18 acres with a three bedroom home. The home has been completely renovated, new roof, wiring, plumbing, roof, windows, doors and floors. listed at $249,000 this is a beautiful home.

The top of the hill would make an ideal building spot for your future dream home!

Click on the photo for more details.

This new home on nearly 28 acres is located just East of Kansas City, MO
Priced at just $580,000 this home is a solid steel Perka building, custom home.

Beautiful home with every luxury feature you could imagine!

The home also has two large commercial steel buildings and custom built horse stalls.

Please click on the photo for more information.

As the only Accredited Equestrian Real Estate Professional in Missouri or Kansas, I get a lot of horse folks asking me for information about horse farms, horse properties and equine event and training centers.

So I thought I'd post some information about available equine related properties in Missouri and Kansas.

Here is a list from Loopnet.com, probably one of the most informative and complete sites on the Internet for farm and ranch real estate.

The FDIC announced December 28, 2009 in a press release, that the Security Bank of Rich Hill had agreed to a fine of $4,000.

Not that long ago, The Security Bank of Rich Hill took over the troubled Hume Bank. More recently the former president of the now defunct Hume Bank was indicted for fraud.

I have added the document below for you to download.

It doesn't really appear that they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, just more like the forgot to cross a couple T's and dot a couple of I's on some damn government form.

Probably just easier to pay off the government thugs than make a big deal about it.

ORDER TO PAY CIVIL MONEY PENALTY
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Bank be, and hereby is, assessed a civil money penalty of $4,000 pursuant to section 8(i)(2) of the Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1818(i)(2), the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.
Pursuant to delegated authority.
Dated this 17th day of November, 2009.
_______________/s/________________
Robert J. Carmona
Deputy Regional Director
Kansas City Regional Office

Well; for the rest of our neighbors in Butler, MO and all of Bates County this was no way to ring in the New Year! Because I live in Kansas City I look forward to my weekends and holidays in the country, away from all the killing, violence and mayhem.

But this holiday season, violence erupted in our tranquil town of Butler, MO.

It seems these days, there is just no getting away from it, as our culture becomes more crass, violent and vulgar; we drift further and further from our Christian roots and our love for one another.

On New Years Day, a under a Blue Moon; 25 year-old Carl Thomas lay dead on a Butler, Missouri street and his sister, 29-year-old Latonya Cooper  was shot inside a house. She was later pronounced dead at Bates County Memorial Medical Center. Another 7 year-old was injured in the fracas also.

This is not the norm for our part of the country and the talk at the local diner Saturday was a mix of sorrow and anger. Sorrow for the family and anger for the fact that our pleasant community should have these trials and worries.

A town where barefoot children ride bicycles to Sam's Hi-Way Hamburger to get an ice cream in the Summer, a town where people still often leave the doors unlocked, a town where helping your neighbor is as common as going to church on Sunday!

Allegedly; Decarlos Newsom was the shooter who later took his own life while parked in his truck. A quick search of Casenet, shows that Mr. Newsom had run afoul of the law before but mostly traffic incidents; that is until August 13, 2008 when he was convicted of a misdemeanor firearm offense and sentenced to 180 days in jail. The sentence was suspended and he was assigned 2 years unsupervised probation and 40 hours community service.

No one knows what could lead someone to do something like this, we can only pray for the families, our community and for our country, that we do not continue this descent into corruption and depravity that seems to be so commonplace in America today.

Merry Christmas to our friends, neighbors, clients and loved ones. May all your family and loved ones be well; and may you rest in the love and knowledge that Jesus Christ was born, lived and died for you and brought you forgiveness for your sins!

Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends may you be blessed and healthy as well.

So here are a few Cheery Seasonal pictures for you to enjoy. After looking at some of these I thought for sure some of them had to come from Hume, MO! hehehe!

I looked all over but I could not find any pictures for a redneck Hanukkah.
If you have some please let me know.
Surely there are some loud and proud Jewish rednecks out there.

News reports are all over the place about the latest marketing ploy by yours truly!

Here's what I've found, The Kansas City Real Estate Examiner is reporting that yours truly is offering a free gun to anyone who buys or sells real estate in Kansas through his company.
Here is the article:
Buy a house get a free gun!

The article links back to Bates County Real Estate and mentions Max Motors of Butler, MO.

Go check it out, the article is actually really good!

States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Matt J Whitworth announced that the former president of the Hume Bank; Jeffrey W. Thompson, was indicted by a federal grand jury for bank fraud.

The Hume Bank was closed by the Missouri Division of Finance and the FDIC on March 7, 2008, and later assumed by the Security Bank of Rich Hill, MO.

Mr. Thompson aged 39 of Hume, MO became the president of the Hume Bank in 2001, he is accused of defrauding the bank and making false statements concealing problem loans. He is also accused of abusing the bank's credit card, using it for personal expenditures. (according to reports).

Some of the allegations involve loans to Brad Laning, a relative of Mr. Thompson's wife.

I have been helping the FDIC evaluate some of the property currently in foreclosure in Hume, MO; and from the properties I've seen the damage has just begun.

I did a BPO for the FDIC a few weeks ago that showed the actual property value to be drastically less than what was loaned against the home.

This is just another example of lenders and appraisers over-valuing homes and buyers walking away with a huge debt that cannot be recovered by liquidating the assets.

Thanks for visiting Bates County Real Estate.

Now you may not think of Bates County or Rich Hill, MO as a capital of culinary arts, but if you have ever eaten at Swopes drive Inn, Cruisers Pizza or The SouthSide Cafe you will soon find out there is one thing we do well here and that's eat!

I stumbled across a blog today about a Mennonite style chicken casserole... Did I mention the Mennonite Bakery (Koehn Bakery) in Butler, MO? Wow, you gotta check that out and pick up a pie or two.

Oops! I stumbled off the path here; seems this here Purple Pony Art person, liked this caserole enough to blog about it. Now having eaten my share of Mennonite cooking I can just imagine the goodness contained in this Chicken Casserole from Mrs. Ben Barker of Rich Hill, MO.

Here's the link to the Recipe! Chicken casserole, Mennonite style!

Y'all come back now; and thanks for visiting Bates County Real Estate.

I do a lot of blogging as time allows, sometimes time is not on my side. I manage a number of blogs, many of them real estate related. Some are just places to rant and rave about whatever.

I usually use this space  for good stories and real estate related posts, but I have a bone to pick.

If you are a regular reader of this site, you may remember my Fishing on the Marais des Cygne story with my grandson and my granddaughter. That was a beautiful Saturday, we spent paddling our little 'ol aluminum John boat down from the farm near the haymaker bridge to the water pumping station near Nyhart, MO.

The Grand kids had a ball watching the wildlife and attempting to help me navigate my way around the dead-fall without the aide of a motor.

Well, a few weeks ago some miscreant snuck onto my father in-laws place down there by the old Haymaker Bridge and made off with my boat.

So this summer, I will not be taking my grand kids on anymore memorable trips down the river. The children will be deprived the joy of a day on the water with Pop, because some worthless, tweaker, meth addict stole my boat. I didn't pay a lot of money for it, but it was mine and I hate a damned thief.

So if your son, meth-addicted boy friend or lazy-ass thieving husband has come home with a used V-Bottom aluminum boat, he stole it from me!

You can reach me at 816-807-1841. Or you can just have him return it to where he found it. But if I catch you on my land; I will put a slug in you!

It disappeared during deer season, which means he was probably out hunting in the Rich Hill or Virginia area when he decided to steal my boat.

Mary Redmond South and John Mac South were both killed in a horrible accident on Route Y in Bates County, MO. 

Mary Redmond South was an equestrian performer and trainer, at 49 she was well known in the Hunter-Jumper circles.  Some reports say that her husband John South was not wearing a seat belt when the accident occurred, Doubtful, after seeing the vehicle (below) that it would have done any good.

There beloved dog perished with them in the accident which occurred on Saturday October 17, 2009.

You can sign the guest book in her memory here: Mary Redmond South .

Our hearts go out to our neighbors and fellow horseman and the family of Mr. and Mrs. South.

You can read the report of the accident here at Fox 4