Our experience looking to Buy a Ranch/Farm -

[Kdog]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I won't be in the market until they take my lease away. So hopefully never.

[huntman933]

That is great information! Thanks for all the info! I have been looking for
1 1/2 years and have not found the right place yet. I have looked around and driven out to many places. Like you say, when you go look at the property it can be completely different than a picture or what someone is telling you! I have seen places that are still for sale after a year and a half. Like I said in another post, deer have driven property value through the roof! It's crazy that land you can only hunt is 2500 to 3000 acres on the low end! And that doesn't include any minerals! If your lucky enought to get any minerals the price goes up! If your looking west of Ft Worth the old timers from the oil booms have all those minerals and most likely the property owner doesn't even own them! I will continue to shop around and someday the right place will come around! I just hope by then it's not $10,000 a acre on the low end!! The longer you wait the higher it will be!
My wife and I also have talked about buying some lake front property. I just feel property is a good investment at this day and time.
I think I would get more use out of rec. land for hunting than waterfront??
Thanks for sharing your info!!!

[Burnadell]

Foot Patrol...some great info. Thanks for taking the time to post.

In my former banker days, back in the 70's and into the 80's, I had a customer in San Antonio that bought 2000-3500 acre ranches in the Hill Country; Leakey, Rocksprings, Campwood, Del Rio, etc. He sold off the ranches in 20-100 ac ranchettes, advertising them as hunting land, and he would carry the notes for the buyers. These were beautiful ranches, and would have been excellent hunting/recreational places as they were, but they were broken up into many small pieces. Buyers were looking for a piece of land in the country to hunt/camp on, and my customer, who is since deceased, made a lot of money doing this. I used to get to hunt on these properties before they were split up, but I hated that these beautiful ranches were getting split up, never to be put back together! The prospective buyers saw the pretty property and signed the contracts, only to find 20-50 other hunters on adjacent ranchettes next to them during hunting season. Any animal that passed through got shot. This type of property has proliferated in the Hill Country and other prime, pretty spots in Texas.

For you buyers out there, just be careful to find out what is around you. It would be disheartening to learn that your dream ranchette is in the middle of many other 50 acre ranchettes, each being packed with hunters waiting for an animal to pass through.

[Foot Patrol]

Thanks everyone for your kind words. I hope this helps you all.

Berandel your words ring true. There are less and less large properties out there that people can afford. I am afraid that the higher the land prices, more and more small ranchettes will be carved out as the everyday hunter cant afford 100 acres anymore. It will be the back forty!!!

I was told that with the recession, land and housing prices in the Hill
country should trend sideways for a while. This could be a good thing for us.

[armadillophil]

FOOT PATROL,

Can you shoot me an email at js27n0b@yahoo.com I had a few questions about land in kimble county. thanks phil

[Foot Patrol]

Email sent Armadillophil.

[az2tx]

Great info

I have been there and done that. I was looking for property a couple of years ago and have since bought a couple of ranches. Without a doubt the one and only best thing I did was get a buyers agent. In fact I was working with another agent and found a piece of property listed by Jim Mullen in the Hondo area.
I talked to Jim a couple of times and did not purchase the property he had listed but I did jump ship and he became my agent. Jim is also a wildlife bioligist and he is awesome to work with.