"… land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts."
(the wisdom of Gerald O'Hara from author Margret Mitchell’s "Gone with the Wind")
We are 6th and 7th generation Texans. My father started in real estate by purchasing his first piece of land through the “GI Bill” when he was in his mid 20’s. Since that time buying, selling, developing, managing (and ultimately appraising) real estate has been the chief enterprise of our family.