Buying rural land in Texas /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Achieving a vision of landownership
- Risks and rewards of rural landownership
- Historical land use in Texas
- Taking risks for reward
- Seeing the end from the beginning
- The need for risk analysis
- Devising an exit strategy
- Understanding contemporary and future Texas land prices
- Historical land market trends
- Searching the state
- Finding that perfect spot
- Useful sources for property searches
- Identifying suitable properties
- Evaluating physical attributes
- Texas AgriLife Extension Service
- Farm service agency
- Web Soil Survey (WSS)
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- Other map resources
- Visual on-site inspections
- Property inspection checklist
- Evaluating economic influences and trends
- National and local conditions
- Southwest regional conditions
- Historical national conditions
- Focus on Texas conditions
- Other resources
- Economic conditions checklist
- Identifying legal rights and limitations
- Verifying ownership
- Identifying rights owned
- Endangered species
- Endangered species checklist
- Water and oil on the land
- Surface water
- Groundwater
- Development water supplies
- Water availability checklist
- Oil and gas
- Oil and gas production checklist
- Closing the deal and enhancing returns
- Property tax measures
- Conservation easements
- Environmental incentives
- The new risks of ownership.