Rutledge Investment Company has consulted its client’s real estate projects for many years. These projects include assisting landowners with WRP and CRP projects, assisting with acquisition and financing of large farm tracts, planning and conducting sealed bid auctions, acting as an intermediary of 1031 exchanges, and consulting with a major regional timber company to dispose over 25,000 acres of recreational land.

Gwin Smith is President and co-owner of Rutledge Investment Company. He grew up working in a farm family in Cleveland, Mississippi in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Since graduating from Mississippi State University in 1985 with a Masters Degree in Agricultural Economics and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, he has lived in Memphis and worked in the agricultural real estate business. Starting out as an real estate appraiser in 1985, he and Jim Rutledge founded Rutledge Investment Company in 1989 as a regional agricultural mortgage banking firm. Additionally they originate and service loans throughout the Mid-South.

Gwin is active in all phases of the farm real estate business. His primary focus is loan origination and real estate brokerage. He is a licensed real estate agent and has had extensive education in real estate and real estate appraisal. He has farming interests in Bolivar, Tunica and Yalobusha Counties, Mississippi and Cross and Crittenden County, Arkansas.

Gwin’s interests include hunting, fishing, golf and enjoying the outdoors with his children. He and his wife Crissy have three children. She is a residential real estate agent and their family leads an active life in Memphis.