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EE_
25th October 2014, 11:12 AM
They won't be happy until they control it all!

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The 124,000-acre Broken O Ranch near Augusta, Mont., was listed for $132.5 million and purchased in 2012 by billionaire Jew Stan Kroenke.

Billionaire Businessmen Buying Up Mega-Ranches
In a modern-day stampede, billionaire execs are buying ranches for the cattle operations, game-hunting—and to entertain clients and guests.


By
Nancy Keates
Oct. 23, 2014 11:03 a.m. ET
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It was a showdown in New Mexico earlier this year, as two billionaires, both from Fort Worth, Texas, battled it out to buy two enormous cattle ranches.

When the dust cleared, oil, gas and real-estate investor Bobby Patton, co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, had won the 174,000-acre York Ranch, spending more than the $10.9 million asking price and outmaneuvering D.R. Horton , one of the country’s largest home-building companies. In a separate deal, D.R. Horton, founded by Donald Horton, outbid Mr. Patton for the nearby 292,779-acre Great Western Ranch, closing in July for around the asking price of $59 million.

The market for large ranches is on the rebound. The recession and droughts dampened demand for wide swaths of ranch land in recent years. Dry conditions forced ranchers to sell off their herds, creating a glut that drove down cattle prices. Now, with easing drought conditions across much of the country and higher cattle prices, ranches that had been sitting on the market have started to sell. A boom in the oil and gas industry and current 2% interest rates on ranch mortgages are also fueling big land grabs.
Bobby Patton paid more than the $10.9 million asking price for the 174,000-acre York Ranch in New Mexico. ENLARGE
Bobby Patton paid more than the $10.9 million asking price for the 174,000-acre York Ranch in New Mexico. Hall and Hall Partners

“It’s the perfect storm,” says Sam Middleton, a Lubbock, Texas-based ranch agent who is representing Waggoner Ranch. With 510,000 acres across six counties in Texas, Waggoner Ranch is one of the largest ranches ever to go on the market. The heirs of Texas cattle baron W.T. Waggoner listed it just a few weeks ago for $725 million. Mr. Middleton and Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International broker Bernie Uechtritz say “hundreds” of interested buyers have called about the property.

Demand is particularly strong right now for mega ranches—those with over 25,000 deeded acres and often more than 100,000 total acres listed in the $10 million to $175 million range. Deeded acres are more desirable because they’re owned outright; ranches may also include acreage leased from the state or federal government, which allows them to graze their cattle in exchange for a fee. These properties typically have cattle operations, as well as recreational assets such as hunting, fishing or hiking. Some listings include mineral rights in the sale, which offers potential revenue from oil, gas, uranium, coal or other resources.

Hall & Hall, a ranch real-estate agency that listed both the York and Great Western ranches in New Mexico, says a substantial part of its $1 billion-plus in ranch sales since 2012 has come from these larger properties. The firm has sold seven ranches bigger than 25,000 deeded acres since 2011, three times the number it sold in the previous four years.

Waggoner Ranch was recently listed for $725 million. The property has 510,000 acres across six counties in Texas. Cowboys work the cattle operation. Chris Collis

Buyers of these mega ranches are looking for income, such as a profitable livestock operation or fees from allowing wildlife-hunting, says Jeff Buerger, a Denver-based partner with Hall & Hall. More important, they are looking for a safe, long-term investment. The value of U.S. pasture land normally grazed by livestock rose 11% in the fiscal year 2014, which ended in September, from a year earlier, after averaging about 5% yearly increases for the two years before that, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In a statement from D.R. Horton, the company said the purchase of Great Western Ranch was a “long-term investment, with no immediate plans for development. It will remain an active ranch operation and be made available for use by our key employees.”

Michael Hewatt, a member of the D.R. Horton board, says the company will use it much like it does the two large ranches it owns in Texas: as a place to entertain brokers, bankers and other D.R. Horton vendors. “It’s a perk for the people we work with,” he says. He also says the ranch is a “good investment for the long term.” Mr. Horton has also personally purchased large parcels of ranch land in Texas and New Mexico, according to public records.
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Mr. Patton is more likely to use York Ranch for entertaining than for raising cattle, says Thomas G. Fitzgerald, one of the sellers. Mr. Fitzgerald says the cash flow from the cattle was “insignificant” in comparison to the value of the land. There’s also some potential hunting revenue, from $25,000 to $40,000 a year. The ranch, which has elk, mule deer and pronghorn antelope, is allocated about 14 big-game tags—which signifies the number of animals that can be harvested. A three-bedroom, two-bathroom main house and a small airplane hangar with two landing strips came with the sale. It is very much a working ranch—it’s nothing fancy, says Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. Patton declined to comment on his plans for the ranch.

A major ranch purchase also comes with bragging rights. Many of the bigger properties are known as “legacy” ranches in part because buyers want to stake their claim in history. These ranches stand out for their size, unusual location or a unique feature, says Eric O’Keefe, editor of the Land Report, which publishes an annual ranking of the largest 100 private landowners in the country. To make that list requires owning 100,000 deeded acres or more.

Billionaire Stan Kroenke, who owns the St. Louis Rams and soccer’s Arsenal F.C., bought a roughly 124,000-acre ranch in 2012 near Augusta, Mont., listed for $132.5 million by the estate of William and Desiree Moore, the late co-founders of Kelly-Moore Paints. Called the Broken O Ranch, Mr. Kroenke’s purchase elevated him on the Land Report’s list of largest landowners, where he currently holds the No. 9 spot. Mr. Kroenke didn’t respond to a request for comment. Liberty Media Chairman John Malone remains at the No. 1 spot on the Land Report’s 2014 list, with 2.2 million acres. Mr. Kroenke didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Much of the action is in New Mexico. Unlike Texas and Colorado, the state still has quite a few very large properties that haven’t been broken apart. Real-estate agents estimate that New Mexico has about 30 ranches bigger than 100,000 acres of deeded land. Land prices are lower, too. New Mexico ranch land sells for $200 to $300 per acre, compared with as high as $1,000 an acre in Wyoming, Montana and elsewhere.

Ben Scott of Dimmitt, Texas-based Scott Land Co. is representing a 109,000-acre Double V ranch near Roswell, N.M., listed for $26.2 million, or $240 an acre. Double V first went on the market in 2009 but didn’t sell. It was relisted in the spring of 2013 and is currently under contract.

Caleb Matott, also a Texas-based ranch real-estate agent, in August sold the 35,000-acre Red Bluff Ranch, listed for $7 million, near Roswell, N.M. The buyers were Mr. Horton and his wife, Martha, personally—not by the company, according to public records. In marketing the ranch, Mr. Matott stressed the legacy value of the property: “To stand on the same ground that John Chisum, John Tunstall, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and so many more have stood, makes a man walk with a little higher step in his stride. To own a ranch of the grandeur makes a person part of history.”

Mr. Patton has another property in New Mexico: He and Mark Walter, the Chicago financier who is also a co-owner of the Dodgers, bought the 93,403-acre Double H ranch in west-central New Mexico last year through Double H Holdings LLC, which was used to buy the York ranch. The sale price isn’t public, but the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a habitat-protection organization that owned the ranch, earned at least $30 million in the deal, according to Blake Henning, vice president of lands and conservation for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

Vast ranch holdings by a few individuals can cause deep resentment in the community, Mr. Henning says. Since private landowners either ban the public from hunting on the land or use outfitters to sell expensive hunts, local hunters often complain, he says.

That resentment won’t go away soon. Competition for recreational ranches, particularly by owners of thriving oil and gas companies, has picked up. There’s a shortage of supply now of the largest properties, which tend to go to the same small group of investors. “There’s a finite group of potential purchasers. We are all aware of them and what their appetites are,” says Greg Fay, founder of ranch brokerage firm Fay Ranches.

Corrections & Amplifications

Great Western Ranch closed in July for around the asking price of $59 million. A previous version of the story said the ranch had sold for more than its asking price.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/billionaire-businessmen-buying-up-mega-ranches-1414076608


The Complete Infestation of the NBA by Jews
December 25, 2011

Update on owners……you should be able to tell who’s a Jew and who’s not visually or by their name. Some of them like to die it though like Mark Cuban.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53477/how-owners-all-30-nba-teams-made-their-money

White haters need to stop criticizing salaries of black NBA millionaires. 9 of the 30 owners are white billionaires with 20 being white with 100s of millions. The other is Michael Jordan and he’s worth about 650 million. He earned it.

http://www.toptenrealestatedeals.com/nba-players-vs-owners/

The NBA is a modern day joke, and a bad Jewish schtick too. Hardly anyone even cares about who is playing or who wins anymore. Free agency has ruined the entire sport. Players are drafted straight from the nursery after birth by greedy Jewish owners who cannot wait until the players to get a diploma or degree so Jewish owners can stuff their overflowing pockets with another few million bucks. They use their power over us through the worship of money (what I call moneyism or talismanic black magick). They say that the NBA is synonymous with Christmas. Actually that isn’t far from the truth. Both of them are huge consumer affairs. The problem is that while Americans are consuming crap we are also being consumed by them.

Here is the list of the Jewish owners of NBA franchises:

Atlanta Hawks – Michael Gearon Jr 2004
Boston Celtics – H. Irving Grousbeck, Wycliffe Grousbeck, Stephen Pagliuca, The Abbey Group 2002
Chicago Bulls – Jerry Reinsdorf 1985
Cleveland Cavaliers – Dan Gilbert, Gary Gilbert, Dan Katzman, Usher Raymond, Gordon Gund 2005
Dallas Mavericks – Mark Cuban 2000
Denver Nuggets – Stan Kroenke 2000
Detroit Pistons – Tom Gores 2011
Golden State Warriors – Peter Guber, Joe Lacob 2010
Houston Rockets – Leslie Alexander 1993
Indiana Pacers – Herbert Simon 1983
Los Angeles Clippers – Donald Sterling 1981
Los Angeles Lakers – Jerry Buss 1979
Memphis Grizzlies – Michael Heisley 2000
Miami Heat – Micky Arison 1995
Milwaukee Bucks – Herb Kohl 1985
Minnesota Timberwolves – Glen Taylor 1995 ???
New Jersey Nets – Mikhail Prokhorov, Bruce Ratner, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter 2010
New Orleans Hornets – Dell Demps GM (NBA looking for buyer)
New York Knicks – James Dolan 1997
Orlando Magic – Richard DeVos 1991
Philadelphia 76ers – Ed Snider 1996
Phoenix Suns – Robert Sarver 2004
Portland Trail Blazers – Paul Allen 1988

I could not find any info to substantiate the Jewishness of the four owners below but cowardly crypto-Jews are everywhere so it doesn’t mean they aren’t. Many times they change their names or even occasionally breed with Gentiles to throw us off the scent.

Sacramento Kings – Joe Maloof, Gavin Maloof, Phil Maloof, George J. Maloof, Jr., Adrienne Maloof-Nassif, Robin E. Hernreich 1998
Oklahoma City Thunder – Clayton Bennett 2006
Toronto Raptors – Richard Peddie 1998
Washington Wizards – Ted Leonsis 2010 (Greek but could still be a Jew)

That means only the Charlotte Bobcats, owned by Michale Jordan, the Utah Jazz, owned by Mormon Greg Miller, and the San Antonio Spurs, owned by Peter Holt, are definitely not completely dominated by Jews. Of course I would be remiss to omit the head honcho parasite himself the NBA commissioner David Stern. That means there are 30 teams in the NBA and 23 of them definitely with Jewish owners or GMs. Jews are 2-3% of the American population. Anyone think that’s a bit out of whack?

Why do Jews only want to dominate sports, media, porn and the Federal Reserve? Because money is their religion and the media controls the mind. It’s that simple. They distract and corrupt. They actually own all religions as well. Americans are such dumb asses. We could end all of this tomorrow but we believe that we have to continue spiraling down this chasm in the hopes of saving our individual asses while everyone else perishes. Divide and conquer always work on Americans who have absolutely no sense of unity on anything except buying more useless shit.

We think that we can beat the system if we work hard enough and kiss enough asses. Well you can’t. It’s all rigged by the Jewish elite and their asskissers so you may as well stop trying and wasting your time. If you are not one of them you don’t get it. Get it through your thick skull. They don’t care if you won a hundred million in the lottery. Jews promote Jews and Jews only, and not even those that convert like dumb-ass Amare Stoudamire, only the European Askhenazim from the proper inbred bloodline. That’s why they’re so damn butt-ass ugly too. With all that money you would think they would get some plastic surgery but that’s probably some depopulation technique reserved solely for Gentiles.

In conclusion FUCK THE NBA!!!!!!! Every American should just turn it off. These owners are the subhumans destroying the world and the players are ok with it as long as they get paid just like Hollywood stars and just like the federal government and most likely just like you for your paycheck. We did it to ourselves by taking orders from them and bowing to their Satanic money god.
http://racerules.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/the-complete-infestation-of-jewish-nba-owners/

crimethink
25th October 2014, 12:41 PM
I have no problem using their own tactics against them.

"Title deed" to "your" property? Rippppp!

woodman
26th October 2014, 06:24 AM
EE, who authored the article you posted, The Complete Infestation of the NBA by Jews
December 25, 2011? I was hoping to see a link but didn't.

Ponce
26th October 2014, 06:39 AM
And you forgot about this one.......someone is buying 6,000 houses in NJ for 3.2 million dollars......3,000 to be taken down right away, 2,000 have mole and people,1,000 are ok.

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palani
26th October 2014, 07:20 AM
In the commercial plane all that is possible is commercial 'ownership'. With ownership comes property taxes.

Meanwhile:

Possessio est quasi pedis positio. Possession is, as it were, the position of the foot.

The position of the foot does not establish sufficient title in the commercial plane to exclude others from selling what you possess. It also means you are incapable of entering your possession into commerce. The title is what commerce is interested in and not the possession.

The point is illustrated by John Wayne in Red River


Dunson: Tell Don Diego, tell him that all the land north of that river's mine. Tell him to stay off of it.
Mexican: Oh, but the land is his.
Dunson: Where did he get it?
Mexican: Oh many years ago by grant and patent, inscribed by the King of all of Spain.
Dunson: You mean he took it away from whomever was here before. Indians maybe.
Mexican: Maybe so.
Dunson: Well, I'm takin' it away from him.
Mexican: Others have thought as you, senor. Others have tried.
Dunson: And you've always been good enough to stop 'em?
Mexican: Amigo, it is my work.
Dunson: Pretty unhealthy job.