Smallest acreage you would buy in a subdivided ranch?

[Fmjag64]

This is exactly what Im worried about. I keep trying and trying to stay in Texas ( born, raised and have lived within 20mi of here my entire life ), but have been priced out

x2 what they said. Last thing i want to do is buy land and have neighbors all over the place or a management company telling me what i can and cant do. Hate seeing the bigger ranches chopped up.

[joel45acp]

I bought my Slice of Texas in Edwards county 4yrs ago in an older “subdivision” with the intention of moving out there after retirement. It’s under 30ac. but I have fallow(all 3colors), axis, blackbuck, elk, Sika, WT, aoudads and hogs running around out there. And best of all zero issues or incidences with ill eagles. Best of luck in your search.

[friscopaint]

How can a government entity tell me I cannot sell my ranch in parcels?

Exactly !! It's none of their business. Now if it's a water issue, aquifer, wells, etc....that is a little more understandable but then what are they going to do say if it's 50 acres, then tell you what you can and cannot have......slippery slope and more government control is never good

[jjaimes]

We bought 20 acres near Menard in London. LOTS of deer some nice ones are seen during the rut but everyone communicates well on the ranch. There are also a few Blackbuck and Axis running around that a lot of us have off limits in hope of reproduction. A lot of people that have bought there aren’t even hunters so that’s a big plus. Our neighboring ranches are big as well which helps the wildlife

[friscopaint]

If you don't like a place being busted up then buy it all, it's not the governments business to decide on someone maximizing their profit on sale to protect others hunting. Where I live now was 80 acres and we asked owner if he would subdivide and he said yes so we bought the house barns and 29 acres. Other is now in 3 parcels, 24, 14 and 10. I couldn't afford the whole place so I got what I could afford, would I have like to have it all of course but that was the owners decision not the county on dividing it up. We do have deed restrictions of no less than 10 acres but it had nothing to do with county the original owner put it in when they sold a bunch of acreages to protect their grandaughters value 3 places down from me. Some spots are being busted up into 1-10 acres spots on other properties but that' none of mine or the county's business other than maybe the septic and I'm not big on that either.....

[kingranch]

dont buy a place to hunt period..

If you get to hunt it great, but that little property sure gets old quick looking at the same trees

[hoythunter02]

I love the fact that most Texas hunters think the only good hunting land is in south Texas! Y’all stay down their fighting over 10 acre tracts hunting on top of each other! We bought our place 4 years ago in an undisclosed county and paid $328k for 300 acres with fantastic hunting.

Still decent deals in that county.


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[DaBears]

As most know, they are breaking up ranches and selling them off in smaller portions. Have been doing it for a while around Val Verde County etc. Now seems to be happening more in the Menard county areas etc. As much as I hate it, it does open up the possibility of owning a few acres for us not so lucky individuals.

Of course the issue is then there are too many people hunting the smaller properties and hunting quality goes down and the other attending issues.

So, IF you were to buy a piece, what do you think would be the least you could buy to have some bit of control, or to lessen the effects of breaking these places into smaller pieces?

160ac?

More?

Right now I am looking at somewhere around $750k to spend on the right place. Obviously this is an issue these days......

Dont want to go too far west, somewhere around Menard County is about as far west as I want to go.

How far are you willing to travel? $750k would get you over 750 acres in parts of the Panhandle. Not as many deer but quality is definitely there.

[Dave W]

Are there any good subdivision ranches left?
I see some ads for Dominion. I was looking for 100 acres or so
Land prices are sky high

[KoonceCrushed]

agree with many of the sentiments shared already. the places with 10 and 20 acres ranches will become shooting ranges in no time

our place is in junction and i have 175 acres inside a 2000 acre high fence subdivided ranch. smallest tracts allowed are 50 acres with the avg landowner size being about 100 acres. the topography makes a difference too, we have some rolling hills and lots of oaks, mesquites and cedar, so their is a lot of cover and you can have more hunters on 100 acres than you can in say del rio area where it is flat scrub brush. the main things that makes our place work well is 1)strong and open communication lines between landowners, board members of the poa, and committee members that manage the wildlife, roads, fences, etc... 2)we only have 18 total landowners
3)did i mention communication and lots of it.

we have been there for 14+ years now and it is my personal slice of heaven.
other ranches like ours have gone thru a lot of lawsuits and fights due to a lack of communication, so we consider ourselves fortunate and continue to work with our neighbors to protect the ranch that we have.

Definitely a Slice of Heaven........

[dbaio1]

I would not buy anywhere that allowed less than 120 acres size properties.

[Grant2]

I would never buy a ranch where an HOA would tell me what I can and can’t do on my own place.

[jvgaroni]

How can a government entity tell me I cannot sell my ranch in parcels?

By having a commissioners court that passes an ordinance. It's that simple. (Kinda scary)

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