Farming opportunity

Randy Thibaut's passion for real estate started early on his grandfather's farm.

Thibaut, the CEO of Land Solutions in Fort Myers, says his grandfather made more money buying and selling farms in Ohio than milking his own cows. “That wore off on me,” he says. “Both sides of my family were farmers.”

The family eventually got out of farming, and Thibaut moved to Florida, where he worked for real estate developers and homebuilders in the Southwest Florida region. He was division president with Beazer Homes before launching Land Solutions in 2000.