You can see the water marks on my dock pilings. With 4-1/2 feet of water still remaining I can take the boat out for now. Glad that we decided to scale down and move here four years ago when I started thinking that “someday” might never come.

While this certainly is not up to snuff with a wide-open country view, sitting out here at daybreak drinking coffee does put a positive spin on my attitude. Can't afford more, but life in the cheap seats really isn't all that bad.

Backyard cell phone shots. That's the 198 bridge at Caney City 2 miles away in the background.



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The record low was in late 2011, 322 feet ASL is full. Note the historical pattern of slow drop and fast rise.

Definitely need some rain. Nice place BTW.

Nice View

Good thing everyone's St Augustine is perfect green

Medina lake near me is 72.4ft. down.

Awesome pictures

Has it ever been full? Seems like it’s always low. Sounds like a poorly designed lake.

It fluctuates heavily. But it's spending more time low.
Medina is at 9.3%
Falcon is at 9.5%
Amistad is at 30.3%

You have a beautiful place OP.

Beautiful place and great pictures, Mark.

The design is good it is just that irrigation is why it was built. Not for recreation.

Sweet spot for sure Marc And I bet that coffee does taste better and goes down a little slower in your backyard.

best friend from high school lives on the lake at Cedar Creek Country Club. He has a set up like yours but can't get his boat out. so, he just plays golf

We ALMOST bought a place at Cedar Creek 2 years ago. I had a family friend who has bought, sold, and owned various land and houses on the lake for over 35 consecutive years. He told us 2020 was a great water year and the the lake was full. The house that we were looking at was on an awesome piece of property (2 acres), but the boat house only measured less than 5' feet deep. He crushed our spirits when he told us not to buy that property because in bad water years, we would never get to get a boat on the water. And those bad water years might last several years at a time. For a host of reasons (esp. the massive increase in property taxes, electricity, and insurance), I'm glad we dodged that bullet and didn't buy.

Nice place
Grew up fishing it

We got a wild hair once upon a time ...went looking for a retirement place and shopped for a couple years. I'd been active lotsa years ago in the Lake Tawakoni Bass Club, and got to see more than a few lakes keeping up with the tournament schedule.

Visions of Lake Texoma's 90K acres kept running thru my mind, and we finally found a wreck of a place to tear down & fix up. The tear down part took tons longer than I'd planned on, with a new job in Dallas that had me travelling over nite's 90% of the time. Long story short, between commuting to VA Dallas from Carrollton and working on a shorter budget than planned it took lots longer to find a place.

So after the old house finally got torn down, after having a part of the rotten roof fall on me. I got a bull dozer to wipe the house out in less than 2 hours...and another couple months of weekends of the weekly change out of the roll off trash dumps..and moved a used mobile on the concrete slab. I had under $40k in the completed usable weekender & a new boat house too. Texoma is hyper sticky about boat houses, and the one I inherited had sunk, then used by the rifraf as a slide into the creek, and a protruding nail in the ancient roofing ripped a girl's thigh wide open and started a lawsuit to cover her medical bills despite the trespassing charge Ihad filed on her....I was learning that non occupied lake houses are just another RoseAnn RoseAnnaDanna ...It's Always Sunthin!!! kind of deal. Finally got all the LawDog stuff settled & moved the mobile on the slab, and got the boat house totally rebuilt. We lived there for 11 years in that mobile.and still miss it sometimes when all the pine trees down here are a problem. I still have the original 50's era Boat House metal license plate on the wall in my den as a reminder to Stop! ... Run Away.... and don't ever buy another water front lake house except on Private Property where you control the access and activities.

We could walk down to the waters edge and catch stripers and sand bass all day when the fish were running and had come back down river in the late spring. The day the movers showed up, as a goodby memory we walked down to waters edge, and I put 40+lbs of striper filets in the cooler in a little over 2 hours on the beach, when we drove down to Palestine that nite as we'd already sold the Carrollton house too.

Texoma is not like any other "fresh water lake" in Texas at over 90K acres. 1st of all it is not a fresh water lake, and is as salty as Galveston Bay and anything made of plain steel metal rusts in a heart beat, 2nd the Okie Game Wardens luv to harass Texas boaters , the lake floods regularly and has a 1 1/2 mile long spillway. 2nd there are as many or more more saltwater sized cruisers on Texoma than several of the coastal destinations, and the 1st big boat I bought was a very tired 20'+ off shore Pursuit with an 80 gallon gas tank and power steering , after my wife had to get hospitalized when my 18" Ranger had gone airborn 8', mebbe 10' high when I hit his bow wave at 60+ when I tried to pass a 40 footer Fly Bridge who had a Working Girl in his lap when he turned into me with no warning or looking when he made a sudden 90* left turn and crossed my passing right of way probably to go hide in the 900 slip Marina and the Ranger went airborne about 20'-25' in the air... and started to sink until the pumps kicked in ..I am a testament to the advertising brag that you cannot sink a Ranger.

After that is when I bought the Pursuit in Corpus, but I traded in the Pursuit at the next Dallas Boat Show and bought a Key West 22' Deep V Off Shore boat with an 80 gallon gas tank, it was Short Rig's capable Bay Boat Off Shore that could handle the sudden DA weekend boaters who are more interested in something besides driving the boat.

Yes we miss Texoma but both of us are going to turn 80 years old before New Years , Texoma IS NOT an old folks lake except for mebbe week days about a 1/3rd to 1/4th of the time. I did learn to drive a 80' er house boat with Twin Chevy 300 V8 's that was used for touring the lake with a load of loud tourist folks....and got paid nicely. If ya go up there be sure to go find Ross Perot's house on the south bank about a mile west of the dam..... a great place to fish the rock retaining wall for shallow water stripers with top water lures.
Ron

Nice place! 4.6ft is not bad considering the drought we are in.

Buddy of mine has a place on that lake, deep in a cove. He’s been dry for long enough to grow grass and weeds around his dock.

Yep, would’ve sucked to almost have doubled your money.

We missed a great opportunity on a vacant lot in a deep cove on the east side. Already had a boat house, just needed a nice mobile home. We had everything lined up and ready to pull the trigger, but the HOA said we had to use their “qualified” setup crew, and they were months out from getting around to it. The lot sold, the buyers put a single wide on it and in 2021 sold it for just under $400k. We would’ve had about $180k invested in it.

Beautiful

Starting 2014, we saw Californians moving into Texas with large bundles of cash, driving up the home prices where lived. We sold, moved up here and rented while we searched for a home in 2017 with deep water in the Eustace USD and a low tax appraisal. (The local tax rate is 1.83%)

This house needed a lot of stuff but was in a great location, has a concrete launching ramp and was under $300K so the taxes were low. We rolled his 25' pontoon boat into the deal .We bought it in 2018, I turned 65 and froze the taxes. Eustace USD discounts the apprised value by 25% then applies the freeze value. It's 2400 sq ft, 4/3 and it's architecturally ugly, but the numbers worked for me.

This year, the Henderson County appraisal district tagged us at $1.16 million, but they dropped it by about 50% after an appeal. Even at the crazy inflated value my taxes are still down at the freeze level. The current property taxes would be $11,000. per year, without the exemptions and I am paying a bit over $4k.

Beautiful

And if that is life in the cheap seats, count me in!

And 4.5' low isn't all that bad if you look at the lakes down here....Medina, Choke Canyon, Amistad, etc.