re: Hail storm in Damon, Texas destroys thousands of acres of Solar Farms

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This sounds like you know land agent shite

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I mean I sold 128 tract here near me to Pulte Land Mgt thinking they were going to develope it for residential use .... it's now 100 acre solar farm.

I made a killing but it's still, retrospectively speaking, the worst land deal I ever made.

In the meantime a close farmer friend/neighbor of mine just signed a lease on 500 acres of former farmland .... generational wealth, payments for 40 years.

Another, my best friend up in the midwest is a partner with a major, the biggest, solar farm developers in the world. I'm Godfather to his daughter. So I know the ins and outs of how it works.

We have a 1500 acre ranch in our family trust in West Texas, considered a micro ranch out there, what's left of 20,000 acres that had been in my family since the late 1920s that we've kept for hunting .... and we can't get the fricking Texas Land Conservatories and the solar farm developers to leave us alone .... we have, as most do, a nice airstrip that we lease to the surveyors and asshats working the area but we also have natural water, houses/cabins, an oasis if you will. Our ranch is appropriately name after our family and the fact that it was an oasis stop across the desert by native Americans .... and the water means a lot of game.

All the mesas overlooking our ranch are lined with wind turbines, some of them ours

So I've been dealing with these brokerage people for over a decade now and I know, for the most part, how the sauce is made.