

By 2009, Dana had fully launched his real estate career in East Texas, earning a Texas Broker’s License and starting his own firm, Red Stag Real Estate, LLC.ĭana’s time as a land surveyor and petroleum landman equipped him with a strong understanding of real estate from top to bottom. Along with K and M Resources, Dana co-founded KMC Oil and Gas, LLC, a Texas-based independent exploration firm that evaluates and invests in oil and gas plays throughout the state and co-founded Eighty-One Royalties, LLC, which buys and sells mineral interests throughout the country. As a landman, he ran title, negotiated oil and gas leases, and managed oil and gas properties from central Louisiana to eastern New Mexico and throughout the state of Texas for some of the largest firms in the country.ĭana went on to earn the designation of Certified Professional Landman through the American Association of Professional Landmen and co-founded his own land firm: K and M Resources, LLC. While in college, he worked as a landman in East Texas. In 2003, he moved to Tyler and earned his degree in Surveying and Mapping from Tyler Junior College and The University of Texas at Tyler. In 2003, Dana began his career in real estate as a land surveyor. By age seven, he had no doubt that milking cows was not for him – he was going to need a career change.

Dana grew up in East Texas and began working at the age of five, milking cows and hauling hay with his father.
