Pick up where I left off. We viewed the property yesterday. The front is about a 500 foot long driveway, about 100 feet wide with 75 feet of trees deep next to the driveway. At the end of the driveway is the gas well operation.  It expands to the entire width of the back of the property, hundreds of feet wide.  But it's just a couple of tanks and a piece of equipment used to bring the gas out of the ground.  The rest you can just drive through there with no problem.  

The back - is where the problem was.  I got out of the pickup, started walking back and  - found basically a dropoff.  About 10% grade for a visual.  It goes down appears to be hundreds of feet at that angle.  No RV'er is going to want to drive down that steep of a grade even if I had it paved with asphalt or concrete.  I didn't have time to walk all around and see if there are any other access points.  The boys were in the truck and we needed to go home for arrival of a new dishwasher.

Before we got to that property, however, we ended up at the other one I had originally gotten approved for.  I started reconsidering that - and eventually caved.  I offered 10 more grand less than what the owner had dropped the price to.  He's been sitting on that property quite a while now and that is his business - buy tax lien sale properties and resell them. Oh how I would have loved to have been at the sale when this one was sold. He only paid 11 grand for it, but paid other taxes apparently and it ended up being 15 grand.  I won't hear until later this coming week what his reply will be.  

Meanwhile, I had to drive down to Brownsville today.  I mean, I knew there weren't going to be any empties down here.  I pleaded with this new dispatcher to give me an Oklahoma run, she was having none of it and for whatever reason I was forced to come down here.  So, I'm going to sit here until about 10:00 am tomorrow morning and then tell her I need to start heading back up, are we still honoring the commitment to allow me to bobtail back up since no empties are here? She'll have to contact my manager and then a decision be made.  In reality, this decision should have been already been made and disclosed to me.  I was approved for the day off, there isn't any good reason not to allow me to have it.

Anyway, I knew there weren't going to be any empties because another driver called me when he was just leaving down here earlier today saying that two empties had come in, he and another driver took those and there is still another driver waiting down here. It's Sunday, they aren't bringing in any more empties or if they do, it's only going to be one for him.  

As I say, I'm not going to let them get away with just forcing me to stay down here until late afternoon for an empty to arrive. If one arrives mid morning, I'm fine with that, but I don't want to be driving until 2 am to make it back and get very little sleep and then up and at it for the auction. 

Well I'll be. A further look at satellite of this newly listed 22 acres on Cooks road reveals a road going down the side of it all the way to the back and then onto other people's property.  I never saw that road when I was there the other day.  This is worth taking a look at.  This is not part of the tax sale, it's just property for sale but I'm guessing - and will look - that it was also bought at tax sale however long ago.  Hmm, inconclusive whether that was a tax lien sale. It says HCAD trust - that's the appraisal district, but I haven't heard of that term before or how you would get a trust property?  Must be some other type of sale that I don't know about.  

Well, answered that one. They also have separate trust sales listed, currently none in my county but I have no idea how often those sales are held or even where.  I will be looking at that, this property was bought under a tax sale, apparently, just another type and apparently was done late last year in December.

Learn as I go here, folks, I never said I was an instant authority on this subject.  

Well, I'm stuck here for the night anyway, so I'm going to watch a movie : )

Have a great evening!