Land For Sale In North Texas

The bank job

The hit squad checked into the Hilton Garden Inn in Gainesville on Thursday under the name A-Z Technology. It was a perfect choice – an anonymous hotel in a suburban strip mall in north-east Georgia, 20 miles from the target; the local Rotary Club was meeting there at the same time and the receptionist was unlikely to pry.

On Friday, six hours before they swarmed the bank, the squad gathered at the Gainesville Civic Center. The blinds were drawn and large bouncers stood at the conference room entrance. About 80 people crammed inside as Ann Hill, a kindly looking middle-aged woman, stood to call the group to attention. “Welcome everybody to the first meeting and probably the last meeting of A-Z Technology,” she said.

Hill then went through the painstaking preparations for the day, which included, rather unusually for a bank job, a level of concern for the tellers and other employees. “Keep in mind what they’re going through,” she stressed. “We’re going to outnumber them, and it’s almost going to be like a herd of locusts descending on the place where they work.”

By Friday evening, those congregated in the meeting room were scattered around northern Georgia, keeping watch on the doors of all eight branches of Habersham Bank. In a town called Cornelia, Arthur Cook, a burly veteran member of the squad, watched from the car park for the last customers to leave. Then he gave a signal.

The staff were quickly rounded up in the lobby. Chandeliers hung from a high ceiling, illuminating stunned faces. One woman sobbed quietly and several covered their faces with their hands. Members of the squad moved among the shaken employees, each sporting a prominent badge emblazoned “FDIC”. This was no ordinary bank heist. The intruders were from the government and they were here to close down the failing bank and replace it with a profitable one in the course of a single night.

The set-up

It was another, more acute banking crisis that led to the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt implored his fellow citizens to stop runs on the banks that threatened a complete collapse of the financial system. “I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress,” he said.

Further to ensure there was never a repeat of the crisis that saw 9,000 banks fail, FDR signed a new insurance system into law. From that day on, every bank in America has paid a premium to the FDIC to insure each depositor’s account, now up to a limit of $250,000. This new financial crisis has depleted the fund, with 157 bank failures last year alone. But the FDIC guards the balance closely. Where possible the failed bank’s loans and deposits are transferred to an acquiring bank, at a discount to sweeten the deal.

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Article by Barry Tipton

You will be asking yourself why you waited so long before buying this place as you sit atop your horse surveying and admiring your North Texas ranch land. You could just as well be doing the surveying of your ranch land from inside an air conditioned vehicle or even getting a sky view as you fly over the land in your small private plane. However you do it, you will come to the same conclusion. Owning North Texas ranch land is a beautiful thing and you only wish you had bought some sooner.

Forget about what you didn’t do yesterday. Today is a new day and it is time to begin looking for land for sale so that you can take ownership of it before another day comes to a close. There are several ways in which you can do this.

You can scour newspaper ads seeking out notices of land for sale by owner. An alternative to newspapers are online classifieds where you can also find notices of lands for sale. You could ask around town to find out if anyone is aware of any North Texas ranch land that is up for sale.

Another choice you have and the one that I personally recommend is to visit a Texas land broker for information on the best land for sale. See pictures of the land that is up for sale before trekking out there to see it in person.

Remember too that land brokers are responsible for encouraging the largest percentages of real estate transactions overall, and with good reason. They are highly skilled at what they do. They have a knack for finding just the real estate that matches your reasons for wanting to invest in and own properties.

Why might someone be interested in owning land? The land itself can offer up some pretty exquisite views, but ranch lands are also lands of versatility. By that I mean you can use your north Texas land in many ways. You could purchase a small spread of land have enough space and land grazing for your horses or a few head of cattle or other livestock.

Ranch lands would allow you to keep a larger number of cattle, horses, and other livestock. With the purchase of bigger north Texas lands you could also start your own “Dude” ranch, which has a heavy demand from tourists who want adventure in their vacations. Or how about a rustic Bed and Breakfast ranch for those who like to get away from the noises of the city? The possible uses for your land are only limited by your imagination.

North Texas ranch land is a great asset to add to your investment portfolio. Find land for sale and make an investment with long- term, high- yield payoffs for you and your bank account. Investors from around the country are adding land to their investment portfolios.

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