I am in no wise in a state of desperation to sign on the dotted line, hand over the cash and call it good on any given property.

So, it is with a great sigh of relief that I went out there to inspect this property myself.  

When the realtor went out there the other day, she was there at sunset.  The mining operation had closed down for the day, apparently, and there was no noise.  

Well, this is Sunday and there was a great deal of noise coming from that operation, specifically the sounds of the backup beepers on the front end loaders and trackhoes and the sounds of what is probably the loader dumping the lignite into trucks to be hauled to the power plant.  

But, of greater concern was this small sign I saw on the street corner of Ponderosa and Holcomb road.  I got out of my vehicle to go up and read what it had to say, if someone went to the trouble of posting it there, I wanted to make sure it had nothing to do with anything going on there.

It was a notice that there is going to be a hearing before the county judge about closing the road permanently!  Holcomb road is the access road to Ponderosa road, Ponderosa road is the road these two properties I bid on are located. There is no other access to Ponderosa road besides going through Holcomb road, I know this because I drove to the end of Ponderosa and it dead ends. .

That just blew my mind.  I instantly thought of some dude selling off his property because of no access.  Yet, how could they get away with shutting off access to property owners?  That makes no sense whatsoever.  Was the mining company going to pay to build another road to access it? Was it going to pay property owners somehow? Why would they want to shut the road down?  If I owned property on Ponderosa, I would be at that hearing and pretty vocal about it.  Still, one wonders if this is actually going to happen and that's why this person is selling the property.  

With that in mind, the road closure and the constant noise, I texted my realtor and asked her to contact the realtor and bow out of it.  It is quite fortunate that on all of these contracts, they all have a provision that the seller or buyer can opt out at any time. I would be a very unhappy camper right now if I were bound to that contract. 

Now? I'm still interested in the 22 acres with the gas well on it.  I Just haven't been able to get anyone to answer the phone at the gas company to ask questions about the signs they have on the proeprty - no hunting, guns, dogs, fishing, etc.  And the fact that they feel like they can lock the property up - that they don't own.  

Other than that, some properties of slight interest.  They're far away from my house or they are well out of the way of any major highway and down county roads that really aren't suitable for people driving a motorcoach. Possibly okay for a pickup pulling a bumper pull or 5th wheel, but I just don't think such properties are appealing even if the price is fantastic.  

I guess I will just wait for more properties to come on the MLS.  My credit will have to be redone with the lender anyway.  I'd like to say time is on my side.  It really isn't.  Perhaps I should just scale this thing down to less than 5 acres and start with a parking lot style RV park versus a much nicer operation with a lot more acreage?  I'm looking online at smaller properties, they want too much money for them.  I can't get a loan on less than 10 acres of land according to this AG lender.

Well, enough of this.  Get some stuff done.  

Happy Sunday. 

 A product of my own ridiculousness last night, I got into the yard, dropped the trailer did my paperwork and headed to the property.  It was too late and it was raining.  Darkness settling in, I decided I'd go back tomorrow - which is now today - and try again.  

Headed to Applebee's - hunger and the fact that no one was home cinched that idea easily.  I got to talking to an older couple at the bar -  the place was empty - and a few hours passed by without my realizing it.  Got home - still hadn't checked the clock - saw the cop/banker guy out on his front porch - that's a pretty rare thing to see, he works 7 days a week - and went over there instead of going in the house.  That went on for a couple of hours and before I knew it, it was after midnight!

So much for getting up early to go look at the property, it's almost 9:30 am, lol.  It's supposed to rain today. That isn't going to thwart me from going over there, I figure I'll take an umbrella and still walk the property.  The only thing I can tell you is that I am not in love with the last - 100/200? - feet of roadway going back in there. 

I did see the old mobile, and yes it's overgrown with bushes and vines and there are 4 pine trees in the front of it - directly in front of it, growing up against the side of the mobile. The front door was open, not a good sign if you had any thoughts of salvaging the thing and redoing it.  That means rats, mice, snakes, animals whatever can and probably have gone inside of it.  I quickly wrote that thing off, tho I suspect I will go into it today to look anyway.  Umm, pistol in my pocket thank you very much.

I will probably take the dogs as well, they are due for a hike, that is, if I can motivate myself to get out of here soon, it's not raining right now and apparently won't be until this afternoon.  

About the time I was going to bed last night James and Taylor showed up - they went straight to bed, it was 1:00 am at that point and just have to kick myself today for staying up so late needlessly.  Oh well, it was fun socializing with people.  

Besides the portion of road I don't like, I remain hopeful to like the property at least and also hunt for the water supply.  Everything is covered with long grass, if it's out there it's going to be difficult to find. The only thing I can say is that the Texas PUC map overlay shows both properties in that grid and therefore in that water supply system.  That does does not automatically mean there is water line under the ground going through there. It just means I can get service to the property, but likely would have to pay for it to be run from wherever it stops to the properties themselves. 

Oh, it's Sunday and I have the day off. Finally, a Sunday off.  I'm going to get out of here, get over to the property, take a good long look rain or shine and then get back home, do some cleaning and enjoy the day off.  Tomorrow is off to Oklahoma - late load means I won't get to do it in one day unless I stay up until 4:00 am - no thanks, I'll just get back to the truck stop casino where I normally stop, spend the night there and finish out the trip on Tuesday.

With that, I best be going.  

Probably do a live stream on Facebook.

G'day.