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Before I bought my first expansion parcel, I assumed a permitted domestic well was a permitted domestic well. The paperwork looked fine. The seller had a completion report. I didn't push further. Wha...
I see buyers get excited about deeded water rights and completely ignore the ditch company shares attached to them. Those are two different things, and conflating them cost me dearly on my second land...
When I bought my Hill Country property, I was so relieved to see paved road frontage that I barely scrutinized the recorded easement connecting my back twelve acres to that road. Huge mistake. The fro...
I spent eight months looking at parcels listed as 'agricultural' before I understood that designation is nearly meaningless without reading the county's unified development ordinance cover to cover. I...
I'll be straight with you — I used to think if the survey pins were in the ground and the acreage checked out, I was good to go. Bought a 40-acre parcel in the foothills thinking I had clean, clear ti...
County-level precipitation averages nearly cost me a chunk of change I didn't have. I looked at Nebraska climate data showing 18-22 inches annual rainfall for the region I was buying into and figured ...
I used to think any adjudicated water right was a solid asset. I was wrong. Priority date is everything under prior appropriation, and I've watched buyers close on senior-looking paper rights that wer...
I used to believe a recently drilled well was a green light on water supply. Got burned badly enough that I'd argue well age is close to irrelevant without aquifer recovery rate data specific to your ...
I see buyers on here poring over NRCS soil surveys like they're gospel, and I understand why — they're detailed, free, and feel authoritative. But after leasing my hollow for going on eighteen years, ...
Before I signed my first lease in the Hill Country, every agent I talked to pushed me toward raw acreage with 'great bones' and minimal prior use. The logic was clean land means a fresh start. I bough...
I changed my mind on this after buying a parcel years ago where the paper water rights looked solid — senior priority, decent acre-feet, everything you'd want. What I didn't investigate hard enough wa...
I've watched buyers get fixated on acreage, soil type, even fencing condition, while completely ignoring the one document that determines whether a farm actually functions: the water decree. Not just ...