Clay Lee
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Planning an Appeal
February 15th, 2009 Categories: Land & Rural, Market Trends
BRYAN, TX — So your property value drops in a shrinking economy. What can
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you do? Make sure that your tax value is decreasing, as well. Brazos County mails out estimates for the year 2009 in June. That’s four months away, you exclaim. Yes, plenty of time to investigate your property’s current market value and to prepare your tax appeal, I say.
Your case for a request to lower the property’s value is not simply based on your feelings about higher taxes. You’ve heard Benjamin Franklin say it – in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. So don’t be shocked to find yourself in a recession and asked to pay Read the rest of this entry »
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How Many Acres Makes a Ranch? Online Poll
June 17th, 2008 Categories: Buying Real Estate, Community Events, Land & Rural
Have you ever been to a ranch? Are you sure it was a ranch? Across the country, people call different sized parcels of land ranches. Dictionary.com says that a ranch is a place where livestock or crops are raised. If that is the case, a lot of people are using the wrong term when describing their land.
In Southern California where land is scare, people call parcels over 20 acres a ranch! In most of the populated parts of Texas, people usually start calling things over 200 acres a ranch. However, when you get into far west Texas, Ranches usually run in the thousands of acres. Forbes.com claimes that anything over 1,000 acres that is a ranch. Ranches are made famous by their owners like Ralph Lauren’s Double RL ranch in Telluride Colorado. At 2800 Acres, Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California is also one of the most well known. In Texas, we have many famous ranches like the Four Sixes Ranch which was named after it was won in a poker tournament with a hand of 4 sixes. The King Ranch in south Texas has become a style icon of ranching throughout the world. So my question is, how many acres do you consider a ranch to be?
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For more information on ranches in Texas or any other type of real estate, feel free to contact me anytime @ rclaylee@yahoo.com
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