RE: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

Yes there are deals in the Terlingua area but be advised that your land may be subject to Terlingua Ranch maintenance fees. http://www.poatri.org/
http://westtexasweekly.com/terlingua...operty-owners/

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

Some people like the desert, just like some people don't mind the cold and snow of the Rockies or Alaska. The annual rainfall there is 10"-15". If those folks there can build a self-reliant, self-sufficient community there, then more power to them. We need more to see more self-reliant, self-sufficient communities developed.

That land is cheap for a reason. I have a friend who develops land out there in west Texas, much of it there in Brewster County. He buys large ranches and cuts them up into 60-250 acre tracts as recreational land (hunting). Therefore I have an idea what the developers paid for that land, and I doubt it was more than $75 an acre, based on what my friend tells me he buys land for.

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

I used to own land west of Terlingua. Terlingua Ranch is NOT the place to own land, lot's of people offer their land for $10 an acre, buyers must pay overdue landowners fees. The landowners association is packed with busybodies.
You can't hunt that country on 65 acre parcels. You need at least 300 and be away from small parcels. The rainfall is more like 9-10" a year, sometimes 8" of it in one day. It snowed there one time when I was camping there in February.
The desert is fun, especially if you like hiking, geology and Indian artifacts. If you don't love Mexicans it's not the place for you to live, though. I doubled my money on the land I had but don't expect to do that nowadays. I don't know about now but a few years back you could buy a section of land (640 acres) for 100 to 150K in SW Brewster County. I saw one ranch in Presidio county, it was about 25,000 acres going for $20 an acre. Practically none of the land has mineral rights. Definitely don't buy in Presidio County if you're not Mexican.

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

If and when people decide to put buildings on those parcels, you'll find out how small 10 acres is. You'll probably be able to hit at least one neighbor's house with a rock.

Sorry, clusters of 50 small parcels is just too crowded for me. The farm I lived on for a couple years before I graduated was 46 acres, split almost evenly by the road. When the old farmer next door called it quits, he sold his 100 acres to a developer who divided it into 5 - 10 acre ranchettes. After the first house went up, I couldn't legally hunt on our land across the road. The third house went up right next to the tree line on the other side - no more hunting on my property.

And as already mentioned, it sounds like you'll be at the mercy of the whims of some form of a HOA. No thanks....

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

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This is a round Southwest style home situated on 18acres in the Terlingua Ranch community. Great views of 9 Pt Mesa, Santiago Peak & other surrounding mountains. Home is currently occupied but is in need of some work such as drywall or tonguegroove wood in the ceiling, dry wall in the bathroom,& other. Solar home w/ water catchment. No well.
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Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

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many 40 acre parcels for sale in nevada for $4000
sink a good well and you would be set.

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

There are many places where the cost of a well would exceed the value of the land. If you drill a well and istall a pump in the Terlingua area, be sure to make it theft proof. They will steal a few feet of wire for the copper if you're not careful. It would be a shame to have to pull the well pipe just to access the wire and splice it.

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I have friends in Alpine and Terlingua, and though they are happy because it is an unusually artsy community, there are serious shootouts between drug cartels and the Border Patrol not that far away, and I would really not like the homeowner's association.

Wells aren't cheap and the water table is dropping from ridiculous overuse. People not only water lawns, but fields of alfalfa and pecan orchards. In a desert. :banghead:

OTOH, a lot of underground water is streams fed from the mountains, so it would depend on what water was under your particular piece of land. If you tapped in upstream from the gargantuan spring at Balmorea (sp?), you would have plenty of cold delicious water.

In general, unless I had one of the experts on the aquifer tell me I was over a good mountain feed, I'd go with a cistern for roof water myself, and if I bought in the area, it would not be where any association could boss me around or run me out of my home with rising fees in a sinking economy.

If the mineral rights are all gone that would call for some serious research as well. I'm not sure I'd want to risk it if only price has kept drilling away.

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

WTF $49,000 in Terligua?

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

QWAK,Just a SCAM -- selling "BLUE SKY DREAMS":smokin: to people with $$$ and no real UNDERSTANDING!:thumb.aspx:

CONDOES gone TEXIN SIZE and on land NO ONE in there right mind would actualy want:confused_ma::452: -- because it is virtualy just DRY DESERT with real good reasons no one lived there for eons other than a fiew NATIVES who were adapted to the harsh conditions!:thumb.aspx::thinkey:

the DUCK :15_1_70v:

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

Duck, if you understand desert living it isn't such a negative: great soil fertility, low population density, and if you put in a big bunch of roof for house and barn, that 8 inch rain can be enough for your house and garden all year. Though you have to put in a big cistern to store it. Personally I would gray water irrigate my orchard picking my soaps for the kind that are fertilizer. And I might use an outhouse to not flush away water in low rain years. (Regular toilet when the cistern is full.)

Swamp coolers work great and use very little power, and while native american adobe fireplaces are beautiful, passive solar heating is a snap in such sunny places, so going off grid is easy.

It is the border skirmishes I want no part of. But deserts actually feel as spiritual as they are referred to biblically to me. There is a quality to the silence and the distance from so many people, power lines, cell phone towers, traffic stink, etc, that somehow opens the spirit.

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

About 50 years ago a couple shysters went around Brewster and Presidio Counties buying mineral rights for pennies on the dollar on speculation that someday oil or valuable minerals would be found. Back then desert land was worth practically nothing anyway. The jerks mucked up a lot of titles for nothing. There is little risk of any oil/gas drilling, just that now there is a legitimate excuse for someone to be on your property.

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If you buy land anywhere near any mineral (Oil and Gas) area be assured the minerals have been severed from the surface estate. Title research in this area is easy since minerals severed are usually not transferred around as much as surface so determining the owner or transferee is easy. Sorry, but in any Oil and Gas producing province (Province means area in oil talk) mineral rights are usually severed, Louisiana however mineral rights return to the surface owner after 10 yrs (if not used or held by production) which is the exception to the rule.

Secret trick, sue the mineral owner if you are the surface owner and if he does not respond, judge awards minerals to surface owner. This is used on areas where mineral owners are dead or non-existant and the mineral estate has the potential to harm the the surface estate (a version of adverse possession).

I am in the Oil Business and a Louisiana Land Guru (Real Estate AAgent and Notary as well as stints as a Louisiana Oil Landman).

Re: Texas land 10 acres for $3,300 in Terlingua
 

Brewster and Presidio counties are not really oil and gas areas.

Never heard of that trick, thanks.