What are the best sites to find land for sale in Texas? Looking for 10ish acres on water in the triangle of Houston, College Station, and Schulenberg. Thanks!

Har map search

Lands of texas

Har doesn't pick up everything but it is pretty slick

Lands of Texas also has a map feature that works pretty well

Www.andrusfarmandranch.com

How about 43 acres in Brazos county with a 13.5 acre tournament waterski lake?

I used homesandland.com before. It allows for filtering property and seems fairly up to date.

Txls.com

Put in county, parameters


Good site

I have found that land in Texas is just too expensive anymore. I am currently looking at 80 acres with a 1700 square foot log house on the Michigan UP or $225,000. Apple to oranges I know, but for an average guy there is no way I could afford that same setup in Texas.

Also looking at a 40 acre forest area with no house for $29,000. Great for putting a cabin on for summer trips.

My wife lived in the UP and 40 years later she is still cold from that place. As beautiful as it can be in the summers, those winters make their land deserve a hefty discount.

pfo, I have spent a couple of winters in Vermont, and one in Korea, so I have a little understanding of cold winters, but yes the U.P. is on a different level.

Only thing really keeping me from getting serious about that property is lack of jobs in that remote area that it is located in on the U.P. When I retire here in a couple of years, I want to keep working, not sit on my butt. Toys don't pay for themselves.

We ran into the same problem with Texas land prices. Our decision was to purchase land and build a cabin in the Ozarks on the Arkansas/Missouri border. In Arkansas we can fly fish for trout and hunt bear, whitetail and Eastern turkeys. Land is by far less in costs than Texas has to offer unless you purchase West Texas scrub.

OP, don't get discouraged. We bought 160 acres last June and could not be happier about it. Just keep in mind the further you get away from metropolitan areas the lower the price per acre. But don't buy too far away that you won't use it

hopeandrealchange said:

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How about 43 acres in Brazos county with a 13.5 acre tournament waterski lake?

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Where is this located?

I'm sure there are an abundance of reasons for why this is dumb but I'm tempted to call and make this happen
Sorry, it's in Colorado and doesn't help you.


http://m.landwatch.com/colorado/costilla-county/farms-and-ranches-for-sale/?id=289030774

I think those photos are somewhat sketchy and at least several are not of the property. If you click the map link and then look at the satellite imagery there is certainly no water on the place, so that river photo is from somewhere else.

So I think for $13250 you're getting 10 acres of desert scrub with no water, no utilities, no nothing.

Irish_Man said:

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I'm sure there are an abundance of reasons for why this is dumb but I'm tempted to call and make this happen
Sorry, it's in Colorado and doesn't help you.


http://m.landwatch.com/colorado/costilla-county/farms-and-ranches-for-sale/?id=289030774

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That's desert. Lots of options better

Irish_Man said:

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I'm sure there are an abundance of reasons for why this is dumb but I'm tempted to call and make this happen
Sorry, it's in Colorado and doesn't help you.


http://m.landwatch.com/colorado/costilla-county/farms-and-ranches-for-sale/?id=289030774

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No. Don't. As others have said, it's desolate scrub. Look just north of there on the map, you'll find the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. It was formed by eons of prevailing wind blowing the gypsum dust off of this property and millions of acres like it.

The hundreds of miles of roads carved out in the area vs. three actual houses should give you a clue.

And the thousands of little dots on the satellite photo? Prairie dog holes.

Average rainfall for the nearby town? Eight inches a year. That place is in the dark orange "under 10 inch" band at the bottom center of the map.

Well with all that in mind, yeah that doesn't look good at all.

The more I look around at that, explains the price.

I'd bet that list price is 3x higher than market value.