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Buyers Beware of City Ordinances and Hunting ....

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Real Estate Agent with Archway Realty, LLC

Most Communities have websites in place so that a Potential Home Buyer can review the City Ordinances prior to investing in a home within that community. 

Why should a Buyer be concerned with City Ordinances?  Because It could be a matter of life or death in at least one growing rural Texas community....

Recently, a Texas Community was featured on the news because the residents are concerned with all the hunters allowed to hunt with rifles in a field behind their homes.... Apparently, according to the City Ordinance hunting is allowed as long as it takes place 150 feet away from the homes.

I wonder what happens when kids wander off into that field? 

Buyers Beware...

Posted by

Lauren Corna

Comments(8)

Todd Hueffed
Champions Real Estate Services - Everett, WA

This was a great idea and I am making city branded web sites right now and am going to add a link to the city ordinances.....

Thanks

Todd Hueffed

www.ThatHomeZone.com in partnership with Keller Williams North Seattle

Nov 03, 2007 10:26 AM
Lauren Corna
Archway Realty, LLC - Southlake, TX
Broker
Todd-  I think it's a great idea to link it to your website !!   Due diligence is very important to our Buyers.
Nov 03, 2007 11:42 AM
Tom Burris
NMLS# 335055 - Baton Rouge, LA
Texas/Louisiana Mortgage Pro - 13 YRS Experience

While I feel for the homeowners..... I would be upset if someone bought a home 200 feet from my hunting grounds and then comlained.

 

Nov 03, 2007 02:16 PM
Lauren Corna
Archway Realty, LLC - Southlake, TX
Broker
Tom-  Funny....Hey, try fishing.  It's more relaxing.  Unless you're into ice fishing... which can be a little tense....Sitting in a little hut with a space heater, on the middle of the lake up in Northern Wisconsin and hearing the ice cracking and seeing flowing water about a hundred feet away, can be a little scary....Sitting next to a Fishing Guide drinking beer and who hasn't shaved in a week reassuring you that you will be alright.....All the while thinking of how you can save yourself when you jump back into the heavy truck to drive back to shore and for some freak reason the ice cracks wide open under you....Yes, I've been ice fishing a few times and lived to talk about it.
Nov 03, 2007 03:58 PM
Tricia Jumonville
Bradfield Properties - Georgetown, TX
Texas REALTOR , Agent With Horse Sense

I agree with Tom.  In fact, I wrote a letter to the editor about just that when some people moved into a new community near here and then complained because they could hear dove hunters in dove season and just KNEW that people were inevitably injured due to hunters and were writing to the paper about it.  I wrote and suggested that, before trying to put a stop to something that had been going on for generations in that area before they moved in, they check the records and statistics on injuries to non-hunters due to hunting in that county up until then.  That pretty much ended that quest to turn where they moved to into where they'd moved from (a common failing in people relocating to a new place to get away from the old place). 

And, Tom, that reminds me of the people who built a house with picture windows overlooking Campbell's Hole up Barton Creek (a popular skinnydipping location since - well, pretty much since people have been in this area) and then complained about people skinnydipping in Campbell's Hole.  They didn't get a whole lot of sympathy on that one, either. 

I haven't been icefishing, but it sounds like fun!  I have SEEN people ice fishing on rivers in the Northeast and then gone back and seen that same river raging with spring thaw and wondered how on earth it managed to freeze hard enough to hold those big trucks out there on the ice.  It just is not intuitively obvious, no, sir, not to me! ;-)

 

Nov 04, 2007 02:54 AM
Lauren Corna
Archway Realty, LLC - Southlake, TX
Broker
Tricia-  Where is Campbell's hole up Barton Creek ??  That is funny !!     We never had any of this up where I grew up... I grew up in the boring suburbs of Chicago.
Nov 04, 2007 03:13 AM
Tricia Jumonville
Bradfield Properties - Georgetown, TX
Texas REALTOR , Agent With Horse Sense

If you start at Barton Springs and hike back up Barton Creek into the Greenbelt, it's up there a ways (about a mile).  I haven't been in years - when all the development over the Greenbelt started, it stopped being a welcome nature etreat from the hurly burly and became just another place in the city, for me. 

Remember, it gets HOT here in the summer.  And people have been trying to cool off for a very long time - like I said, since people arrived in this area!

 

Nov 04, 2007 03:39 AM
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