Property Description Question

[surfcowboy]

Hey everyone.

I was looking at some property listings and I got a question about the description.

The main 146 acre features a live creek that run through the property, large open areas and heavily wooded sections. Property currently holds a wildlife exemption with large whitetail bucks and a large number of hogs that run through the property. This section has a combination of lower land and upper land. The lower section will hold water during heavy rains, and would make great duck ponds! The second tract is a 10 acre tract that is fully wooded all upper land. There is currently an unlivable mobile home on the property with Power and a field line septic. Remove the mobile home and build your next hunting cabin, clear the wooded area around the home site and have a large open view of the hills around you.

My question is what is yalls take on this statement of the description? "The lower section will hold water during heavy rains, and would make great duck ponds!"

[sticks]

It floods

[CabezaBlanca]

Sounds like it wouldn't take much to have a nice pond down there!

[Carpe_diem]

Dammit!

[BigWes]

Seems like most of it floods. If it's 146 acres and the upper is only 10 acres, sounds like 136 of it floods with a heavy rain.

[Sleepy]

Sounds like a nice chunk of land with good hunting possibilities and less upkeep!

I’d much rather have 10 acres be livable and maintainable rather than 130 that you have to keep up with on a tractor!

[The Crippler]

My suggestion would be to make the seller remove the mobile home. Trust me, you do not not want to deal with the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.

[Pintail45]

My suggestion would be to make the seller remove the mobile home. Trust me, you do not not want to deal with the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.

It's not an abandoned mobile home Officer, it's a raccoon wildlife habitat

In all seriousness, what could TDHCA do and how would they even know about it?

[WCB]

Two tracts. One 10 acre and one 146 acre. How much of the 146 floods?

And only would make a good duck huntin place if'n it rains during duck season...

[surfcowboy]

thanks for the input so far. would any of you be interested in looking at this or just click the next button?

[sir huntsalot]

If you have the property boundaries, you can get on the national wetlands inventory and see what parts (if any) on the property are mapped, you can also do a web soil survey for upland/wetland soil types, and see how it's categorized on a FEMA map.

[BrianL]

Flood zone...

[DUKFVR]

thanks for the input so far. would any of you be interested in looking at this or just click the next button?

More than likely means it floods at times. As far as going to the next place, you have to decide if it is what you want. For a duck hunter or someone wanting a good lake it would be great. That alone wouldn't stop me at all.

[surfcowboy]

If you have the property boundaries, you can get on the national wetlands inventory and see what parts (if any) on the property are mapped, you can also do a web soil survey for upland/wetland soil types, and see how it's categorized on a FEMA map.

Thanks I used this and saw the classification PFO1A

[sir huntsalot]

Thanks I used this and saw the classification PFO1A

That will mean that it's probably a hardwood bottom area that's only temporarily flooded during the growing season.