# Gateway Royalty: Who They Are, and How to Check Any Mineral Buyer > Facts on Gateway Royalty from public sources: entity, headquarters, business model in their own words, BBB status, and what they publish. Plus how to verify any mineral buyer, including us. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/gateway-royalty/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Mineral Buyer Directory ## Gateway Royalty Public facts, from their own site and public records, with sources. We are a competitor of theirs, so we have kept this to things you can verify yourself. If you have an offer in hand, we will give you a second number free and tell you if theirs is better. [Get a Second Number](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) [Call 918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Berlin Royalties has no affiliation with Gateway Royalty. We compete with them. Everything below is drawn from their own website, their Better Business Bureau profile where one exists, and other public records, and each item is sourced so you can check it. We have not characterized their conduct, their pricing, or their integrity, and we do not intend to. Where sources disagree with each other, we say so rather than picking one. [Our own entry is in the same directory, in the same format.](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) ## The basics | **Business name** | Gateway Royalty, LLC. A related entity, Gateway Royalty II, L.L.C., appears in Ohio appellate case law. || **How they describe their business** | Direct buyer || **Headquarters** | Carrollton, Ohio || **Address** | 111 2nd Street SW, Carrollton 44615, consistent across its site and BBB. || **Founded** | 2012, consistent between its own site and BBB. || **Where they say they buy** | The narrowest stated footprint in this set: Utica Shale, eastern Ohio, covering Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble, Stark, and Tuscarawas Counties. || **Fees or commission** | No fee statement found. || **Better Business Bureau** | Accredited since November 28, 2017. Rating A+. [View the BBB profile](https://www.bbb.org/us/oh/carrollton/profile/oil-royalties/gateway-royalty-llc-0282-92006489). | ## In their own words Describes itself as a mineral and royalty acquisition company offering landowners upfront payment. [Source](https://gatewayroyaltyllc.com/about-gateway/). Site claims interest acquired in more than 75,000 acres, more than $300 million invested since 2012, and positions under more than 2,400 Utica wells. ## What they publish, and what they do not We check the same five things on every company in this directory, including ourselves, because they are the things an owner can actually use. - **Named people with roles.** Yes, and the most complete in this set. Six individuals are named with roles across operations, land acquisition, and title. - **A physical street address.** Yes. - **How they arrive at a number.** Publishes a page addressing what it pays for mineral rights, which is the closest thing to a public pricing page we found in this set. - **Also worth knowing.** Also publishes a page for owners who have received a letter from the company, similar in purpose to ours. ## Notes - Named as a party in reported Ohio appellate litigation against operators, appearing as the plaintiff or appellee in each. Those decisions are public record and are the kind of thing a royalty owner may reasonably want to read. - Issued a public statement on Ohio House Bill 152. ## How to check Gateway Royalty, or any mineral buyer This is the part that is actually useful, and it works on us too. Run it on every company that writes to you. - **Look them up in the county records where your minerals are.** This is the single best test and almost nobody does it. A buyer who holds what it buys records deeds in its own name in your county. Search the grantee index at the county clerk's office for the company name. If a company has been buying in your county for years, there will be a paper trail. If there is nothing, ask why. Our [well records by state](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/well-records/) page links the public search systems. - **Ask whether they are buying for their own account or reselling.** A direct buyer keeps the interest. A broker or marketplace finds someone else to buy it and is paid out of the transaction. Neither is wrong, but they are different deals with different economics, and you should know which one you are in. Ask the question in writing. - **Ask them to show the arithmetic.** Which wells, what decline assumption, what remaining locations, what multiple, and why that multiple. A number with no reasoning behind it is not a valuation. Any buyer can produce this in a paragraph if they actually did the work. - **Ask whether the offer letter number and the closing check number are the same.** Get the answer in writing, and ask what happens if they find a title issue. This is where most of the real complaints in this industry come from. - **Ask who pays the closing costs, and whether there is any cost to you at any point.** - **Ask them when you should not sell.** A buyer with a real answer to that question is worth more of your time than one without. - **Shop the offer.** Get a second number. A buyer who discourages you from doing that is telling you something. We say this knowing it works against us as often as it works for us. We put our own version of this list on [ten questions to ask any mineral buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/), which we wrote against ourselves before we wrote it about anyone else. ### Got an offer from Gateway Royalty? Let us look at it. Send us the letter and a recent check stub. We will value the interest independently, show you the reasoning, and give you our own number. If theirs is better than ours, we will tell you that plainly and you should take it. If we think you should not sell at all, we will tell you that too. Free, no obligation, and we will not put you on a mailing list. [Get a Second Number](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) [Ask a Landman](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/ask-a-landman/) ## Who we are, for comparison Berlin Royalties is the trade name; title is taken as **Berlin Resources LLC**. We are in Tulsa, Oklahoma, we have been buying since 2014, and we are run by Stephen Clayman, a former Marine Corps officer and career landman. We buy for our own account and hold rather than flipping. We pay all closing costs. We publish [how we value interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/) and [when we think you should not sell](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/when-not-to-sell/). Our full entry is in [the directory](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) in the same format as everyone else's, and our deeds are in the county records under Berlin Resources, where you can check them. ## Related - [The full mineral buyer directory](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) - [Got an offer letter? How to evaluate it](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/got-an-offer/) - [Ten questions to ask any mineral buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) - [Broker, marketplace, or direct sale?](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/broker-or-direct/) - [How mineral and royalty interests are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/) - [When not to sell](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/when-not-to-sell/) Compiled August 2026 from publicly available sources, each linked above. Companies change addresses, accreditations, ownership, and business models, and public records lag. Verify anything that matters to your decision at the source before relying on it, and tell us if you find something here that is out of date so we can correct it. Berlin Royalties is a competitor of the companies in this directory. Nothing here is a recommendation for or against doing business with any of them, and nothing here is legal or financial advice.