Might be a way to get some cash quicker or maybe get a buyer for the land quicker if you can show them they could pull 1k an acre by having someone come clear cut the parcel after they buy it.The local population seems very limiting too.

Places like Leander, Cedar Park, and Georgetown are seeing incredible infrastructure improvements and population spikes.

Las Cruces is a small college town (home of the New Mexico State University Aggies) with healthy population of federal government workers and military contractors.

As far as office I remain intrigued by it, also at least in our area condos have been brutally hit and I think offer a “deal” without quite the downsides to office, I tend to think office/retail in suburban and even pandemic boom markets (I’ve started investing on the eastern shore of Md and have considered some office deals there) offers the best risk/reward of office because you have a population boom coupled with ultimately still a low supply of office space, where as urban areas have lost population and have a huge glut of supply, I think the ultimate fate of a lot of urban office trends towards zero/land value. 

Note the below bill was proposed, establishing a 5-year moratorium on condo conversions in high population/population density counties (basically Hudson County only).

In cities with static or declining populations, the existing housing supply typically meets housing demand.

Protecting yourself from any future issues will require a good understanding of the situation your house is in when you buy it.Tl;dr: crime here is relatively low, declining population numbers don't take students into account, properties are cheap, rents are high BUT be careful where you buy.This concludes my TED Talk, ha!

Main things being population growth and landlording laws.

Jarrell is planning on a population surge of 50,000 new folks.

Based on a gut check (checking the town population + location on google maps), this may be the case.