What with tending to my wife at various hospitals over the past month, I haven’t been able to attend to one of my favorite chores out here in rural East Texas – looking after some acreage that a nearby city fellas owns, but doesn’t get out to much anymore.
It is a not uncommon arrangement out here – a fellow who has some property out in the country where I live needs someone to walk the fences and make sure there aren’t any trespassers making a mess, or making meth, as the case may be, and an honest, good-hearted local fellow like myself needs access to a bit of land for hunting, fishing, and generally communing with nature.
So I head out with a box of .22 ammo and a rifle and pistol to do some damage to a boxfull of empty soda cans and as I open the gate to the property and look down the lane, I see a yearling white-tailed deer looking back at me, then bounding away.
Sounds like fun. What’s property with water on it going for down there? We occasionally contemplate a getaway place of our own. Wife would like for it to be on a lake or have a stream going through it.
Steve
For small lots (less than ten acres) near Nacogdoches, the price tops out around $10,000 per acre.
Out in the boonies where I live, well here’s an ad from our local paper:
94 acres, Improved Pastures, crossed fenced, pens, barn, pond, creek, already electricity, water, gas, Beautiful place for homesite. Douglass ISD. $3000/acre.
If I had a quarter million to spare, I’d be all over this one.
The seller would probably take a price closer to $200,000 for a cash deal, I’d wager.