Wanting to relocate to Aggieland semi-rural. Suggestions?

[Ioannes]

Howdy! My mom and sister live in Colege Station and my nephew is about to graduate Texas A&M.

I currently live in Arizona and love it, but I’d like to be closer to family, as I have none here. I also have business in Texas and just love being there.

Furthermore, my kids are Jr High and younger and all are homeschooled and I’m trying to raise them right, but the blue state sickness and toxic influence is all around them here. Covid migration from California, Illinois and Washington really changed things seemingly overnight.

I would sure feel better about them going to a university in Texas, preferably Texas A&M, so they can do the corps and have a minimum of indoctrination (besides Aggie indoctrination, whoop!).

If you wanted something about 7-8 acres within an hour from College Station, conservative and unlikely to sell out to developers and/or liberals, where would you go?

I was looking at Navasota and parts east of College Station so far.

My plan is to start the process of looking in about a year.

Thank you in advance for your suggestions.

 

[Lead Belly]

Shoot for 10+ acres and go for the Ag exemption. I'm no expert.

Start here

https://dallas-tx.tamu.edu/files/2018/07/Tx-Ag-Exemption-handout.pdf

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Texas is kinda becoming a land grab sorta speak. You buy what you find before you need it. It's skyrocketing in price is the main reason mostly due to the influx of California, NewYork and Places like New Jersey. People with cash. Houses sell within weeks where I'm at and acreage is all being bought up by Developers.. act fast!

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

Madison County.

 

[seeker_two]

Madison County.

Also Leon and Limestone counties.

 

[deemus]

Brenham.

 

[kbaxter60]

Brenham.

We spent last weekend in the area. The country around Chappell Hill and Independence is gorgeous. Prices are high.

 

[Ioannes]

Thanks fellas! Any undervalued areas that you know of? When I sell my home in AZ I’m not going to have California type of money, so I’m looking to stretch a dollar. I’m okay being an hour from town.

 

[Texasgordo]

Roans Prairie, Shiro, Navasota and Caldwell get my vote. They seem like quiet places to live and still close to B/CS.

 

[Vaquero]

Get a Maroon Tundra.

 

[Sam Colt]

You’ll likely be looking at $15k/acre and up for bare land. More for smaller, 10 acre, pieces.

https://www.landandfarm.com/property/beautiful-property-in-peaceful-country-setting-31462632/

 

[dartsinsa]

Last time I checked, which was quite a while back, land around mine seems to be about 10-12k an acre, which is more than double in last 5 years.I am about 45 min from Bryan, west of Centerville some 12 miles.I think there are a couple of pieces for sale on my CR, 12 acre and 20 acre. Leon County. It is getting harder to find, though.

 

[Tex62]

You can set up alerts for specific geographic areas with this site https://www.land.com


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[Big Green]

We’re about 25 minutes from the university, right outside Brazos Co. Land is getting expensive everywhere. We’ve been in the B/CS area for 10 years now and at our current house for just over seven. We have a few acres and also homeschool. Neighbors behind us have a few more kids than us and a few more acres than us, also homeschooled.

Not many ranges out here, a few on the outskirts, a little disappointing from what I had hoped.

Finding a GOOD church was also not very easy, think we might have figured that one out finally for the most part.

A nice area but growing rapidly. Too rapidly.

 

[Eli]

Shoot for 10+ acres and go for the Ag exemption. I'm no expert.

Start here

https://dallas-tx.tamu.edu/files/2018/07/Tx-Ag-Exemption-handout.pdf

Thanks for that link, I haven't seen it before.

Texas is kinda becoming a land grab sorta speak. You buy what you find before you need it. It's skyrocketing in price is the main reason mostly due to the influx of California, NewYork and Places like New Jersey. People with cash. Houses sell within weeks where I'm at and acreage is all being bought up by Developers.. act fast!

Developers are being to satisfy the housing need, which hasn't been met since before 2008 in Texas!
Rural land, unfortunately, is skyrocketing in price and still increasing despite the interest rate hikes. And so many people are building rural homesteads that most reputable water well drillers are booked 3-6 months out right now.
I just hope I can afford something soon!

Eli

 

[Sam Colt]

Good point on the well drilling. And with the aquifers dropping you have to go deep around there to get good (not stank) water. I’m an hour south of Bryan and we had to go 800 feet.

At $25-35/foot it adds up fast.

 

[Eli]

At $25-35/foot it adds up fast.

I recently had a buyer get an estimate for a 1320' (QUARTER-MILE!) residential water well for about $100/foot!

Eli

 

[toddnjoyce]

As others said, bring a fat wallet. We used to have 5 acres with live, spring fed water off FM2000 outside of Caldwell. In the late 80s, it was affordable and had the Corps of Cadets allowed me to live off-campus, I would have been an Aggie.

Sold that place in 1993 for $9K after pulling electric, drilling a well, and putting in a septic system. Now it’s appraised at $238K in the same condition.

 

[gdr_11]

You might want to look a bit north into the southern parts of Cherokee or Henderson counties.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

You might want to look a bit north into the southern parts of Cherokee or Henderson counties.

Or a little more West even.