Is there anyone in the Eagle Pass area? There is a small chance that my husband may be getting a job transfer there so I was wondering about the area. I've been checking all the real estate websites I can find but I'm not seeing any houses with land. There's got to be houses with land for sale but where to look?
Posted 2008-09-22 4:17 PM (#91901 - in reply to #91848) Subject: RE: Texans
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Terri,
Let me know when you get there.. I've been wanting to ride out that way for ages.. I've thought about riding in the big bend area, but my horses are not conditioned for that and I really don't know where to go... I've been casually looking at the area on the internet for a little while now..
Posted 2008-09-22 6:30 PM (#91912 - in reply to #91865) Subject: RE: Texans
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We've been here for a little over 2 years. With my husbands job in order to promote you generally have to transfer to another office. It's just a Government thing. When we were Air Force it was the same way.
Posted 2008-09-22 6:36 PM (#91913 - in reply to #91868) Subject: RE: Texans
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I've looked on that website but I'm not sure how accurate it is. $167,000 for a 3 Bed, 2 Bath 1,850 Sq. Ft. home with 6,630 Acres? I think someone forgot a decimal somewhere. All of the ones I looked at like that, even the ones for 40-50 thousand seem to have lots of land. There was one for 42,000 with 52 acres??? I don't know. I'll have to call on some of these.
Posted 2008-09-22 6:39 PM (#91914 - in reply to #91901) Subject: RE: Texans
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If hubby gets the position we'll be close enough to start going to Bandara again. I'll let you know. I like it here but hubby "lets" me keep my horses so we have to keep hubby happy. Besides, I like it here but I miss Tx (even though it's actually only 75 miles from here).
Posted 2008-09-22 8:34 PM (#91937 - in reply to #91848) Subject: RE: Texans
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Originally written by Terri on 2008-09-21 7:00 PM
Is there anyone in the Eagle Pass area? There is a small chance that my husband may be getting a job transfer there so I was wondering about the area. I've been checking all the real estate websites I can find but I'm not seeing any houses with land. There's got to be houses with land for sale but where to look?
In my humble opinion, Eagle Pass is the armpit of Texas. Why anyone would live there is incomprehensible, unless of course, they had to. Is your husband with the Border Patrol? The other armpit is Del Rio.
Posted 2008-09-22 9:18 PM (#91940 - in reply to #91937) Subject: RE: Texans
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Originally written by Longrider on 2008-09-22 8:34 AM
Originally written by Terri on 2008-09-21 7:00 PM
Is there anyone in the Eagle Pass area? There is a small chance that my husband may be getting a job transfer there so I was wondering about the area. I've been checking all the real estate websites I can find but I'm not seeing any houses with land. There's got to be houses with land for sale but where to look?
In my humble opinion, Eagle Pass is the armpit of Texas. Why anyone would live there is incomprehensible, unless of course, they had to. Is your husband with the Border Patrol? The other armpit is Del Rio.
Yes. I've never been to Eagle Pass or Del Rio. My step mother used to live in Del Rio and loved it. What about east of there? By about 30 miles or so? I don't care what the cities are like, I won't live in them anyway. As long as there is a feed store......
Most of the real estate sites I've checked have properties listed by sq ft instead of acreage.
Posted 2008-09-23 3:55 PM (#91984 - in reply to #91915) Subject: RE: Texans
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I wish I'd known you too... I have no one to ride with here.. My daughter got interested in horses long enough for me to buy her a great little (13.1 hand) pony..actually a small horse.. that she no longer messes with at all... When she (the pony) gets ridden, it is usually me that rides her.. My daughter has a beautiful posture on a horse and with time and practice could be an excellent rider, but she gets up there and is just a passenger..Won't be assertive at all... We went to Bandera last year, but she wouldn't ride on anything other than the flat... Grrr.. I love the hills...
Like I said (and I mean it) let me know when you get there.. We will go riding yet.. The reason the land is cheap out there is because it is very arid and brushy.. I don't know how deep the water table is, but my guess would be pretty far down.... We've looked at land in Rocksprings, but it's all brush and rocks.. I'd like it for someplace else to go (and hubby could hunt the exotics all over the place there) but I eventually want to buy retirement property in either Colorado, wyoming, New Mexico, or even Montana...
Posted 2008-09-24 1:10 PM (#92038 - in reply to #91984) Subject: RE: Texans
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The reason the land is cheap out there is because it is very arid and brushy.. I don't know how deep the water table is, but my guess would be pretty far down....
Doesn't that describe most of TX? At least every part of it I've lived in. Land in Eagle Pass seems to be a lot more expensive than what we paid up near Kingsville. If we move I'd like my payments to go down, not up.
Your daughter sounds like mine. They LOVE their horses and get really upset if I mention selling one. BUT they only help feed and clean if I make them. I got them started with a local gymkahana club and they are taking more of an interest since they are riding with other kids. They are really enjoying the poles and barrels and are getting better at riding.
Posted 2008-09-25 2:22 AM (#92070 - in reply to #91848) Subject: RE: Texans
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I don't know if there are any youth riding clubs around here..I'll check it out.. There is only one other kid even near her age to ride with.. The one boy (barn manager's son) is a future juvenile delinquent waiting for the right time and place to start his legal career, and I won't let my daughter be around him much.. Plus he doesn't really ride, is a self proclaimed expert, giving advice to the other adults ("use a quirkto make that horse go").. OR he rides his skateboard up and down the barn isle, or his motorbike all around the barnyard.......I take a deep breath and count to ten, or a hundred.....
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