I Bought a Town in Texas! 

Would really like to see a whole series on the upgrades and improvements to an entire town! That is so cool!

Now all you need are some 25 mph signs and a cop.

My parent's lived on well water. Since the town depends on it, have a complete replacement set of equipment on hand and make all components modular.

It's all about making money. I would consider focusing on older folks who live on a SS. Check. 6 RV lots at 300 a month is 1800. Then the motor in is great as a studio and a place to park a car. 500 a month each. There is a huge and growing market of older people who pay 800 bucks a month just for a room in someone's home. They would love to have their own place. You have a lot to offer. Good luck

What a great opportunity!! If you would gear that place towards motorcycle riders you would have a gold mine. MC riders have an incredible network that you could easily tap into. I'll be watching for future changes, good luck Jon.

Hi Jon. Thanks for the tour of Cornudas. What a wealth of potential! I definitely support the gas station idea. Maybe there's an oil company out there that has a support program for new gas station start-ups. If nothing else, park a couple of tanker trailers on-site with regular gas and diesel fuel. Love the kitschy road sign and the indoor chuck wagon. I think that you could partner with smaller businesses initially and give them some price breaks for setting up a new business. A used car dealership, a tire shop, bike shop, an espresso stand, a car detailing business or a roadside attraction. Whatever gets traffic to pull over. Something that would complement your town's designs. If you had a circle of pioneer wagons or teepees, you could have an outdoor western rest stop with barbecue snacks and a firepit. Since the stars are so available, set up several telescopes that people can stargaze through at night. You could build a giant telescope observatory and light it up with spotlights. I can see the sign now... GIANT STARGAZING TELESCOPE! ONE MILE AHEAD! Also... Southwestern art gallery. Vintage records & tapes. Electric car charge station. Cowboy hat & boots shop. Native American flutes & dream catchers etc. Overnight truck stop parking. Super clean restrooms!!! Good luck Jon! Happy trails!

Cool. Look forward to watching you fix it up.

I rode my motorcycle out there once, when I still lived in East El Paso. Was pretty much just head East on Montana RD, past red sands and keep going. There was a weird little farming town just North of there. Went out there to look at a horse trailer for sale. I like the area, you might get some business from people heading between Carlsbad Caverns and El Paso.

Just found the channel, looking forward to regular updates and seeing what you do with the place!!

Get a gravel drag, and pull it all around the property with a quad. Smooth all that granite/rock down, removes dried weeds fast

I would love to see updates on this.

Please show again when you are finished upgrading!

Wow!! Someone bought a town…? I stayed for the tunes and how cool is it that you bought a town!!! Congratulations! I can’t wait to see how it has unfolded in the months. I’ll catch up.

I live 5 minutes away from this place in the sunset ranches properties, I love the burgers but my personal favs are the pancakes and coffee.

Bruh, what an adventure you have ahead of you. Im visit your town one day.

Plant an oak tree they last 200 years and will be there long after your gone, and will help sell your property when it matures later if you should decide to sell.

Definitely want to put a giant statue outside the cafe so tourists stop for photos and then buy some food or gifts. Maybe one of those photo walls where you stick your head in? Also maybe a "free petting zoo" sign for those donkeys? And then people buy food and gifts

There was a reason there was no security. You didn't mess with May. She was tougher than woodpecker lips. You said something that makes me question your resolve. You said "When I visit" If you are not going to be there, why? You are going to pay somebody to live there? May solved that problem. Good luck. That country needs that place,

Congratulations and good luck.

Wow. I'm so thrilled to be able to see you make all the upgrades and etc. I'm very interested in this. Yeppers. One thing for sure your going to bring it back to life. It's still nice even now.

Awesome! I was happy to come across your video. We used to stop there a lot in the early 90's. I remember meeting the ladies that owned/cooked there. Caps were hanging solid all over the ceiling. Pies were sold, burgers and I think canned drinks. Would certainly take a drive to go back and visit as you get things opened up. Thank you.

Make sure to clear some area for truck drivers to stop and eat ( or order to go).

My one piece of advice I would suggest is not to hurt the night sky view with the wrong lights

I saw mamas cafe once on Texas country reporter, the woman had been there for some time, we use to stop there every once in awhile when I was hauling cattle to Peyton’s packing in El Paso, the place is out in the middle of no where so to speak. good luck on your venture so I respect your energy.

Good on You! Can't wait to see what you do with the place!

Congratulations, Mayor Jon!

Collect all of the rain-water you can off of roofs,into an underground storage system That may make a big difference in sustainability!.

just subscribed i want to see how far this goes good luck i live in south texas corpus christi tx i love it

What A Wonderful Little Town …… look forward to your upgrades

PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE VIDEOS OF YOUR LITTLE TOWN!! SO INTERESTING!!!

I never crossed my mind to buy a whole town. I'm sure that must of been on your bucket list.

Beautiful place, what did a spreadvl8ke 5hat cost you ifvI may ask? Take care, be safe and God Bless. Hope to visit one of these days

Can't wait to see the updates and the town thriving

Thats just awesome...i would love to buy a small town like that .....wow

Hey John I was just wondering how you were doing, I’m gonna stop and see you one of these days and meet you and eat one of those delicious burgers,who knows I might bring a oak tree. god bless

Will have to visit your town!!👍🤠

I have fond memories of Cornudas 😎🤙

That looks like a nice place to go and visit for a few days.

Pretty neat potential not only for profit but legal independence.

I'm like envious wish it was me. Best wishes.

Would be interested in helping you out there, looking for a project to manage with over 25 years' experience in maintenance of both commercial and industrial as well as field management. Have RV can travel...

Absolutely awesome... can't wait to see you guys soon!!! So what is happening???

Hopefully the well came with a Public Water Supply (PWS) system. I owned a PWS hauling company providing drinking water to a lot of small venues west of Austin. Most of those venues had no idea the cost and management of a PWS. It was an expense they had not budgeted into their business plan. As a Restaurant it will be required to have a PWS. You just can’t provide untreated well water.

Nice been driving by there every time I visit my mom in Carlsbad NM be a nice place to stop.

If your pipes freez and bust! Blame the Mayor. Because he just talks.

I love it! ❤

What a ridiculously fun thing this is! I think you are not looking to live there but rather to make a profit off of dividing this, which is really too bad. It just doesn't feel like you even like the place much, really too bad. I am sure someone who fell in love with this could have bought it and turned it into a lovely place for others to enjoy and to live having a great time, under those stars. Thank you for sharing!

You need to vacuume out that sliding glass door track!!

1:53 those bicentennial plates are rare as. Vic stopped printing green and white plates in '94, and stopped doing the pressed slogan in 2000, and of course the bicentennial plates were only done for that one year. That's a cool piece of memorabilia you have there. It's really weird to see such a collectable piece of local stuff so far away from home!

You need to get a ice machine and sell ice can be profitable 8lb bag $3.00 looks like you have a freezer for it hopefully you have an ice machine water is valuable out there ice is also

Goodness 🎉its beautiful 😍

just subscribed - would like to visit after you get it all going - we usually travel in a big van but no shower so hoping your place will have a shower house. We want to visit the National Parks near your place also. Jesse

Good luck

Cool set up, Been to salt flat decades ago.

Hi Jon. Reaching out to you as we just bought 20 acres on highway 62 right up the road from you.

Set up a PO Box station, so that you can rent out the boxes.

you have the perfect spot to do one of them africa 5 year farms due to water and you alreaady have the treess wow amazing

So jealous. Were looking to move to El Paso. Maybe some day well be a patron.

$5.00 a gallon is a steal. I paid $5.69 just down the street, with a station at every corner, yesterday in California

Hey, you should update Wiki about the town. Happy Trails! 🎉

Idea. Get another tank so ypu have 2 250 tanks. Hooked up to a old 1920s or 1910s glass top pump that's been renovated. Would be awesome, return the motel rooms to car parks also. I would pay an extra 30$ a night for my motel or hotel to have its own car port, that would be super nice to come and not have a 10,000° car. Another thing, start converting the town for solar input with a generator and a large capacitor for like a cell station. So your entire town can run off that capacitor for weeks at a time, and you don't pay anything for power, then charge like 3$ or 4$ per kilowatt for electric recharge abilities. If the capacitor runs low kick on a generator that will run for 2 or 3 hours and recharge the capacitor to a preferred lvl, not full but enough it would have to kick on for another 3 or 4 days? Depending if there is another car charging. Those things take a lot. Get a Edison motors solar charging system or something about like that.

You need to learn how to run a backhoe! Repair/replace water lines. Get the resturant going. Bed & breakfast the motel rooms. Solar is great but expensive, Propane or NG are clean and reasonable despite what the Government tells you. Keep lights to the minimum. The west Texas sky is fantastic!

How did you find this for sale? How much land? How much did it cost you?

Awesome!

Damn bro, I appreciate the hustle. Wishing you tons of success in your endeavors. Do y’all have a website for your merch?

always loved to own something like this

market to the Guadalupe Peak hikers. Lots of folks hiking Texas highest point but there is no place close to stay. The park only has a small RV park.

cornudas, tx.. wow.. you should make it a tiny homes community. it would be sooo cool.

Sounds like you will make it a great place. New sub - I'd love to come and help. Good luck, can't wait to see more!

I hope you don’t get rid off all the cool stuff inside the cafe hanging on the walls fits the area! Also I wouldn’t divide this up make it a resort! Air bnb put a putt putt course that’s a gold mine

Such a cute town

very nice potential, if there was no limits on budget what soever i would redo all the interior of the main house. fresh paint and new carpet in the bedrooms. then hardwood floors in the rest of the house, also fix all water lines and electrical lines. then id want to install a much larger water reserve tank probably 30,000 gallons just to be safe. and install an electric supply combining solar panels and alternators on a windmill going to a power bank in the storage shed. electric meters for all separate houses and the rv park and diner, but most importantly gas pumps and a small auto garage. and possibly a few new small houses for the mechanic and maybe a handyman in the future

So much potential... Add a convenience store and gas station to that cafe and gift shop. Create some truck parking and you have a really nice rest station for truckers and people passing through

Holy retirement dream! WOW!

No sewer?

So Texas is so big that it would take me more than 11 hours to get to your town. I live near Houston. I cannot believe it’s over 600 miles away. I’m interested in the RV park.

That makes us neighbors, I bought 21 Acres in Texas, not too far from where you are.

Truckers need a nice place to stay overnight

Makes me miss Hobbs New Mexico!

You could probably get a video projector and make a drive-in movie theater

You have a lot of surface area on those structures for gutters and solar panels. Just a thought.

The wooden boot bar stools looks like they were carved by west Tx singer Doug Moreland now living in Fort Davis, he will have the letters DM caved into it.

Plant more trees, and soon you'll have an oasis!

very coolz man

I wouldn't do just emergency gas. I would invest in making a new/legit gas station and incorporate the diner and the gift shop. Make one building that does it all. Get a good 10 pump stations and some Semi parking. You'd make a killing

All you got to do is find oil on it! Or a gold or silver mine or something to make it bigger? Sell land plots?

Planting trees would be a priority

2:08 that table is creepy looking in a fun sort of way😬

How much water is left in the aquifer the well is pumping from?

Invite people to come in and run the businesses. Hotel, Cafe, etc. If I wasn't already gainfully employed, I'd trade being a handy-man for lodging.

I agree eith the guy who posted "now all U need are 25 mph signs on the highway and a cop" Leaving town each way signs "Received a ticket? U should have bought a squirrel, errrrr Burger"😂😅

Ya know, it's in the middle of nowhere. But, it's in the middle. A lot of people are living out of an RV. You may have stumbled into a good thing.

why aint this go viral yet

Such a cool concept to get into. Numbers pleaseeee

You could introduce a lot for tiny homes

My wife and I are willing to be tenants! Umm...after its fixed up a bit.

"FREE COFFEE" signs 1/4 mile up the road both sides. Get em to stop and and you get them to look.

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...how about a movie set on location??? $$$ That might be a start to bringin' $?

how much did you pay for it? I don't find that info anyplace