| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Whether the prospective buyer is a farmer or rancher looking to expand operations, a sportsman seeking to preserve habitat for wildlife, or a nature enthusiast trying to conserve native flora and fauna, acquiring rural land can be a rollercoaster of exciting and stressful experiences. In Buying Rural Land in Texas: Taking the Right Risk, Charles E. Gilliland demonstrates that buyers can and should arm themselves with knowledge-of the land-buying process, of the potential problems involved, and of the resources available to them-to ensure a successful and satisfying outcome. In this practical guide, Gilliland outlines four phases of buying rural land: identifying what you want, in terms of both land and property rights; locating a suitable property; valuing the property; and completing the transaction. He then covers everything the potential landowner should know while progressing through these steps: how to identify and manage risk, plan an "exit strategy," interpret present and future land prices, find the "perfect spot," evaluate the property's physical attributes, gauge economic trends, understand legal rights and limitations, protect natural resources, and, finally, close the deal. Incorporating real life examples from a career spent in land sales, Gilliland takes readers step-by-step through the process, also providing checklists, maps, professional tips, and information about how to tap additional sources of information and advice. With the knowledge gained from Buying Rural Land in Texas, new landowners will find themselves not at the end of a journey but at the beginning, as they learn to manage their land and to deliver it intact to future generations |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Real property -- Ownership -- Texas.
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Land use, Rural -- Texas.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. |
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Land use, Rural |
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Real property -- Ownership |
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Texas https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJj8XjVR9hP7dPxwVtRqcP |
| Genre/Form |
Reference works
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Reference works.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gilliland, Charles E. (Charles Edward). Buying rural land in Texas. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2012 9781603447959 (DLC) 2012016410 (OCoLC)791683760 |
| ISBN |
9781603448222 (electronic bk.) |
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1603448225 (electronic bk.) |
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1283584271 |
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9781283584272 |
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9781603447959 |
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1603447954 |
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