Articles
Plain writing for Texas landowners about ERCOT and what sits outside it, how the wires company differs from the retail provider, and what to do when a letter arrives about your section.
A party that is serious about Texas ground has looked up three things about your property before they ever contact you. If the person calling has not, you are early in somebody's list rather than late in their process.
2026-09-04
Soil class, yield history and what your land is worth as farmland have almost nothing to do with what makes it suitable here. That is unsettling if your ground is good, and it is the best news a caliche pasture ever got.
2026-09-04
Severed mineral estates are ordinary in Texas and most surface owners have never had reason to think about them. A buyer who wants to put a building and a substation on your ground has to think about them before anything else.
2026-09-04
In most of Texas there is no rezoning hearing, no use permit and no county vote standing between a project and your land. That removes an obstacle and it removes a protection, and only one of those gets mentioned to you.
2026-09-04
Groundwater in Texas belongs to the surface owner, which makes water a negotiable part of a land deal here in a way it is not in most states. That cuts both ways, and it is worth understanding before you sign anything.
2026-08-19
Texas runs its own grid, separate from the rest of the country, and the state has recently given regulators new authority over very large new loads. Both facts affect what a developer can promise a Texas landowner.
2026-08-11
Tell us about your property. There is no cost and no obligation. If it does not fit, we will tell you plainly.
These take about two minutes. Skip anything you do not know. Guessing is fine.
Thank you. We will review the property and come back to you with a plain answer either way, including if it does not fit.