Wonton Wealth: Insights into Commercial Real Estate Investing & Beyond
Sep 22, 2026 · 24 min · 9 segments
In this episode, John Brenard shares insights into timberland investing, covering property sizes, valuation, timber types, and risk management, making it accessible for new investors. Takeaways Most…
John BrenardGuestTanhHostThat is incredible.
So essentially, you started because of your parents, right? And then that kind of just led the way to forming additional partnerships.
But so Timberland, how large is a parcel that you're buying?
So historically, the way that you could invest in timberland is it was, you know, either you were an individual, right? You maybe had some family land, you know, that had, you know, you've had the family for generations, maybe a couple hundred acres.
And then what started to happen is the asset class became institutionalized and you had big institutions raising hundreds of millions of dollars to buy thousands of acres of this.
So you asked what size acreage, we're typically a couple hundred acres up to about 2000 acres.
So these are still very big properties compared to maybe what most listeners are used to.
But in this part of the country, this rural part of the Southeast, You know, that's a fairly, you know, common size property at that midsize, but it's below the institutional radar.
So we don't have competition from the institutions who are buying 10,000 acres at a time.
And I'll talk about why we like the midsize properties in a moment and what we do with them.
That is incredible.
So essentially, you started because of your parents, right? And then that kind of just led the way to forming additional partnerships.
But so Timberland, how large is a parcel that you're buying?
So historically, the way that you could invest in timberland is it was, you know, either you were an individual, right? You maybe had some family land, you know, that had, you know, you've had the family for generations, maybe a couple hundred acres.
And then what started to happen is the asset class became institutionalized and you had big institutions raising hundreds of millions of dollars to buy thousands of acres of this.
So you asked what size acreage, we're typically a couple hundred acres up to about 2000 acres.
So these are still very big properties compared to maybe what most listeners are used to.
But in this part of the country, this rural part of the Southeast, You know, that's a fairly, you know, common size property at that midsize, but it's below the institutional radar.
So we don't have competition from the institutions who are buying 10,000 acres at a time.
And I'll talk about why we like the midsize properties in a moment and what we do with them.
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