Hometown: Ramona, Oklahoma
County: Washington & Rogers Counties, Oklahoma
Family: Wife, Melinda, daughter, Lauren and son, Nate
In Town: Chuck is a broker associate with the Arrowhead Land Company of Tulsa, Ok., where he guides buyers in expanding their own property while simultaneously, helping sellers to grapple with the emotional challenges of parting with their lands.
“This isn’t a job. This is my home, where my story begins,” Chuck explained how and why working with those who are buying and selling properties is such an essential part of his daily life, as he, too, is a landowner. “I’m proud to help others begin their dreams as I am also living my best life here.”
In 2023, Chuck was named the APEX Region 8 (Oklahoma and Texas) Agribusiness Broker of the Year by the Realtors Land Institute (RLI). In 2023-24, he was honored to be the Arrowhead Land Company Top Agent. Chuck is one of only 800 accredited real estate consultants for the National Association of Relators in the United States.
When he’s not contracting feed, burning pasture or managing cattle, Chuck is walking lands with buyers and sellers, negotiating real estate deals, and working the land he loves.
In the Country: Chuck grew up around the 6500 acre Cobbs Ranch, named for his maternal great-grandfather, Roy E. Cobbs when it began in 1930. Today, that ranch stretches across two counties in Oklahoma – Washington and Rogers.
In 2016, at the age of 50 plus, he and Melinda decided to make the big move back to the ranch, renting a house there to go home again.
From 2017 to 2019, he worked with a local neighbor, Robert Hughes who mentored him in the work of ranch management. Chuck learned the basics of a life he had always enjoyed as a youth. In all of that, he realized he still missed the fast-paced world of business. From there, under the tutelage of Sherman Shanklin of Shanklin Farm and Realty, Chuck began to learn the real estate trade.
Chuck added. “As a young man, the big cities of Dallas and Ft. Worth were really attractive. Everything moved fast and was all shiny. As my kids moved on as adults, both involved in the arts, it was great for them but it was time for us to go back home in a sense.” Melinda continues as a communications professor at Tulsa Community College. The Bellattis have been married for 36 years.
In 2020, Chuck officially became the ranch manager of the family ranch while still working as a real estate broker. He has a dependable ranch foreman and is himself the fourth generation of his family to work the family ranch. Today, Chuck runs stocker steers on the ranch, maintaining a herd of approximately one thousand.
