When it comes to land, don't mess with Texas. Not only is the Lone Star State the biggest state in the Lower 48 but it is almost exclusively privately owned. Whereas 30 percent of the total American land mass belongs to the federal government, just 5 percent of Texas is public property. The rest is in private hands and sells for as little as $50 an acre in the high desert Trans-Pecos to more than $10,000 an acre for prime South Texas hunting tracts. Rural land prices have skyrocketed over the past decade. Texans not only love their land, but they also invest millions in their property as well as improvements. Once wrangled from Mexico, it was, once upon a time, a short-lived independent republic. Texas is a state with a distinct culture all to itself, with many residents sporting a state pride bigger than a West Texas belt buckle. Southern, Southwestern and Mexican cultures all mesh together in Texas, where shrimp and crab boils are just as common on the Gulf Coast as pit barbeque and chili cook-offs in the Hill Country. Beef cattle ranches are a hot commodity in this fabled cowboy country. Just don't argue over what's in the BBQ – it's beef, of course. And the chili? Leave the beans out please -- unless you want an argument on your hands.
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Listed by
Jason Pettigrew
No Fences Land Company
Listed by
Jason Pettigrew
No Fences Land Company
Listed by
Jason Pettigrew
No Fences Land Company
Listed by
Jason Pettigrew
No Fences Land Company
Listed by
Ben Ballard
Kingwood Forestry Services, Inc.
