I've been going back and forth with this, and thought it'd be helpful to get some local/outside opinions. My wife and I own a 26 acres in Milam county, as well as 18 acres in Burleson county. The land in Burleson county is a vineyard in progress w/ 2 acres of grapes, so far, and her family is planning on building on that piece of property. We've looked at existing homes in the College Station/Bryan area, and didn't see anything we liked, we prefer to be out in the county on 5 acres or more. We're both very conservative, and were raised in the country, so just feels more like home than in town. Right now we're considering building on the 26 acres, but the overall expenses of getting a water well (550' which costs 17k from Brien Water Wells) and septic really push the costs to the top of our budget. We've got bids from a few builders, but just don't know about the overall investment of building in that county versus buying existing in the College Station area. I guess our worst fear is building something, having to move, and not being able to sell it.