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Ranching: An Investment You Can Love Now and Share with Future Generations

There is simply no other investment that can be simultaneously so financially rewarding and emotionally satisfying as ranching.
Playing the stock market, especially for those few who win consistently, is wonderful. Buying and flipping houses has helped some real estate venturers amass fortunes.
Gold bugs, rare coin collectors, philatelists, fine art accumulators, liquid asset (wine and scotch) dealers, and other connoisseurs certainly derive enjoyment from their speculations.
But nothing in the world compares to stepping out under the endless blue sky, inhaling the fresh air, and gazing as far as the eye can see, knowing that this stretch of mother earth, your ranch, is an asset that you can love now and pass on to future generations.
Once ranching gets in your blood – like the love of your life – it stays with you forever. I know, I’m a fourth-generation rancher, and I’m proud to be sharing my passion for the ranching life with my children, our family’s fifth generation of ranchers.
DEEPLY SATISFYING
Whether you live on and work your ranch; treat it as a getaway home; avail yourself of fishing, hunting or boating; raise cattle, cultivate crops, or enjoy more than one of the above, there is nothing as deeply satisfying as ranching.
Better still, done right, ranching can be an incredibly good investment and an annuity that returns both financial and spiritual dividends for generations to come.
Whether you’ve previously lived on a ranch, regularly visited one, and especially if you grew up in the concrete and glass cage we call urban America, you owe it to yourself to explore how owning ranch acreage can lift your spirits and propel your net worth.
Once ranching gets in your blood – like the love of your life – it stays with you forever. I know, I’m a fourth-generation rancher, and I’m proud to be sharing my passion for the ranching life with my children, our family’s fifth generation of ranchers.
I am a dedicated ranch broker. Whether you’re new to ranching – or like me, have it in your DNA – I can fit your needs, your budget, and your dreams to the perfect ranch.
Some ranch brokers look at their profession like just another job. They are all about the quick sale and their commission.
Not me.
I consider helping people buy and sell ranches a calling, something I am meant to do; my higher purpose in life.
GLORIOUSLY INFECTIOUS
For me, it’s all about my clients, their families, their destiny, and, of course, the land. (How blessed are we in America, and Texas especially, to have such abundant, productive, breathtaking land?)
Ranching is gloriously infectious. I was bitten when I was hardly old enough to walk.
It would be my sincerest honor to “infect” you with my love of ranching and the great outdoors. I promise you’ll thank me for it.

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Monthly Review of the Texas EconomyAli Anari (Oct 31, 2016)
Texas gained 207,500 nonagricultural jobs from September 2015 to September 2016, an annual growth rate of 1.7 percent, equal to the nation's growth rate. The nongovernment sector added 166,200 jobs, an annual growth rate of 1.7 percent compared with 1.9 percent for the nation's private sector.
According to the Real Estate Center's latest Monthly Review of the Texas Economy,Texas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in September 2016 was 4.8 up from 4.5 percent in September 2015. The nation's rate decreased from 5.1 to 5 percent.  
All Texas industries except mining and logging, and manufacturing had more jobs in September 2016 than in September 2015. Leisure and hospitality ranked first in job creation followed by education and health services, financial activities, and the government sector.  
All Texas metro areas except Odessa, Texarkana, and Midland had more jobs in September 2016 than in September 2015. Dallas-Plano-Irving ranked first in job creation followed by College Station-Bryan, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, San Angelo, and Austin-Round Rocks.
The state's actual unemployment rate in September 2016 was 4.8 percent. Amarillo and Austin-Round Rock had the lowest unemployment rate followed by Lubbock, College Station-Bryan, Dallas-Plano-Irving, and Sherman-Denison.