So you want to buy some rural property? Well I think that’s great! An investment in a farm or ranch can give you a place where you can raise your family — or a herd of cows, ride 4-wheelers, grow vegetables, hunt or just relax. The possibilities are endless. 

But how do you go about buying your own piece of heaven? Who can help with the financing? And how does buying rural land differ from buying a home? Let me try and answer some of these questions.

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Charlene Lightfoot, Texas Land Bank vice president, knows the sacrifices military families make during wartime.  Her son-in-law, Steve Nunnelly, is currently serving on the USS Nimitz. With a crew of 3,000 men and women, the USS Nimitz is the lead ship of America’s largest class of aircraft carrier; when deployed, the air wing brings an additional 2,000 personnel on board.

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Anyone who has spent time around kids has probably read Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White, or seen one of the movies made from the book. If you’re not familiar with the story, it is about a spider (Charlotte) who can write things on her web. By doing so, she saves the life of Wilbur, a special pet pig who otherwise would have been destined for the dinner table. What you may not know is that the spider in the story was actually based on a real type of spider from a very large family called Orb Weavers.

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