Land lease checklist (free)
- Parties and land description
- Term, rent and payment dates
- Permitted use and stocking rate
- Fences, water and improvements
- Hunting and access rights
- Liability and insurance
Landowners renting land to farmers, ranchers or hunters
Which land, and how many acres?
Free checklist for a farm, pasture, grazing or hunting lease: rent, term, stocking rate, fences, game rights and liability, with a map of the land.
- Free to read
- No sign-up until the draft
- Hands off to the right door
ePlan fills in
- Parcel and acreage
- Land cover
- Soils
- Water features
- Aerial imagery
How it works
Land lease checklist, from one answer
- Pick the lease type and the land.
- ePlan lays out acreage, pasture and water and builds the checklist.
- Use the checklist free. Leasing Texas land for grazing? Start Texas Form 50-129 for ag valuation.
What you get
Land lease checklist and 1 more document
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Form 50-129: Application for 1-d-1 (Open-Space) Agricultural Use Appraisal door.
Texas Form 50-129 ag valuation application
- Owner and property
- Five-of-seven-year use history
- Livestock, crops and programs
- Signature
From public data
What ePlan fills in, and from where
- Parcel and acreageRegrid nationwide parcel data (or the county assessor)
- Pasture, cropland or woodsUSGS/MRLC National Land Cover Database
- SoilsUSDA NRCS Web Soil Survey (SSURGO)
- Streams and pondsUSGS National Hydrography Dataset
- Aerial imageryUSDA NAIP
1 year
is the limit for an oral lease in Texas: a real estate lease for a longer term must be in writing and signed to be enforceable
Source: Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 26.01(b)(5)
Ready for the paperwork?
Draft Texas Form 50-129 for 1-d-1 open-space (ag) valuation, with your five-of-seven-year use history and a written lease. Free to read.
Questions
Land Lease Agreement Checklist: what people ask
Does a farm or pasture lease have to be in writing?
In Texas, a lease of real estate for a term longer than one year is not enforceable unless it, or a memorandum of it, is in writing and signed by the person bound by it. Shorter leases can be oral, but writing avoids disputes.
Will a hunting lease cost me my Texas ag valuation?
Not by itself. The Comptroller's manual says land used mainly to graze cattle can also be leased for hunting, since hunting is compatible with grazing. If another use replaces agriculture as the primary use, the land no longer qualifies.
How long must Texas land be farmed to get ag valuation?
It must be devoted principally to agricultural use now, at the intensity typical for the area, and have been in agricultural or timber production for at least five of the past seven years.
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Answer it and ePlan opens the Form 50-129: Application for 1-d-1 (Open-Space) Agricultural Use Appraisal door with your answer filled in.