It was (bad) wine nuts across the road for us. South Gillespie county. Their first version of their website listed all their kids, living all over (DFW, etc.), and how all of them were so excited to help in the new endeavor. Now, 3 years later, their website lists one daughter, helping at the crappy little tasting room on 290 outside Fbg. They state that there's occasional entertainment (the usual musician wannabes that are at Luckenbach) at the vineyard property, but, somehow fail to list the address of the property. . Another neighbor has since built a Look at my Johnson house on the road/east fence line of what was our place. We went futher west with the help of a friend on here and have never been happier. Much bigger place. 'Fully expect for it to happen again. If I'm alive and able, I'll just do it again and go further west. "Go west my son."

If you are happy in your subdivision I'm happy for you.

We are and been here 16 years. Our 'subdivision' was developed in the 1920 to 1940 near White Rock Lake so hills and trees. It isn't cookie cutterville. My house is being remodeled now and living in an apartment until it is finished. Ready to get back into the house. I stay at my cabin at the lease if I need a break or go to a friend's ranch. Best of both worlds to me. I don't care to drive a tractor but am able too if needed.

Those are the best ones by far!
Much better than the ones they are building now where you can jump from roof to roof......even a fat old man like me could. lmao
The one we lived in for the first 13 years we were married in Schertz had giant old oak trees and was nice to. None of the houses in it were identical like a lot of the subdivisions now were every 5th house is exactly the same or just an opposite handed floor plan.

We are getting set to revitalize the bunker. Extreme privacy, no lawn, a panoramic view and 3 minutes from work. Aahhh . . . , city life.

Wow!

Ready for the Nukes.

we are in a "subdivision" - actually it is more of a horse development - 25 acres one mile outside of Georgetown Texas and one of the fastest growing cities in the country - so if we had worried about what our property taxes would be we would have passed on the place - LAST thing I worried about was our property taxes - I saw one hell of an awesome piece of property and bought it - my property taxes with our wildlife exemption is around 9 K total - I think we can live with that - one of you smart guys on here tell me I did wrong

[quote=tlk]we are in a "subdivision" - actually it is more of a horse development - 25 acres one mile outside of Georgetown Texas and one of the fastest growing cities in the country - so if we had worried about what our property taxes would be we would have passed on the place - LAST thing I worried about was our property taxes - I saw one hell of an awesome piece of property and bought it - my property taxes with our wildlife exemption is around 9 K total - I think we can live with that - one of you smart guys on here tell me I did wrong







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I’d say your living life right, beautiful place

Thanks to everyone who offered me advice…

I called today and within an hour I had the appraised value from $789k down to $408k!

Cheers!

Good job! That's a substantial reduction.

Dang TLK, now I see how the other half lives. Nice place.

My 133 acres of “get away from home” is good only for hunting and fishing and peeing off the porch.

Winning!!!

Bingo! That's awesome.

Very impressive. One would almost think he had something on those appraisal folks.

congratulations to you! - it never hurts to push back -

Haha well no Sir. My ace in the hole (as others pointed out to me) was having purchased the property within 12 months of the appraisal date.

Cheers!

Damn bro

Do you have gun turrets under the porch I cannot see in this picture???

Beautiful place tlk

You done it right.

The only thing I'd recommend is trading in the caballos for atvs. They are cheaper to run and a lot less headaches!

The market has been nuts, but worked in our favor. We bought a home.brand new in a cookie cutter neighborhood in Georgetown in 2014. We paid 232K for the house. We sold it in November 2021 for $479K. We then found a house that is 500sq ft. Smaller (2100sq ft), but on 1/3 acre, golf course community in Temple, much nicer neighborhood, no HOA and paid $340K. We only had to finance $60k and will it paid off in 4.5 yrs instead of the 15 yrs we had left on the last house.

The bonus gift was moving further away from Austin

Absolutely!

Great Job!
Now a warning: you've got 12 months, to muster up the courage (& a good argument) to face them again next year if need be,
cause like a dang elephant, they don't 'forget', and will be on you again next year like a hog on sour-corn,
to jack it up to 800k again!! Make dang sure you're keeping good records for the ag-exempt!

must be east of town?

yep

we used to live on Eastview drive (between 130 & EV High school north of 29). Beautiful area, fabulous sunsets, amazing but lots of rattlesnakes... yeah, the property values have skyrocketed around here