raise $3,000 to $6,000 NOW you can buy citrus land, put it in citrus and expect a retirement income in the future. Citrus juices are being consumed by diet conscious Americans like milk and the demand is steadily increasing. You'll never have to perform a day's work in the field in the citrus grove business. You can contract to have all work performed. The sum of $15,000 to $30,000 will buy and develop 10 acres of good citrus land. In five years its value will have tripled and the market price will have kept pace with the inflation factor. In five years you will have a producing grove that should net you from $20,000 to $30,000 per year in income. Again I wish to stress that you need not involve yourself in work. All kinds of maintenance, management and harvesting services exist at very reasonable prices. Labor is cheap in the citrus areas. If you are a dextrous financial manipulator with a good credit standing you can raise the necessary money by careful borrowing and make this investment. By the end of the FIRST YEAR you should have ALL your outlay in hand and in ten years you will have free and clear a property worth at least $27,000 and on which you will have realized already an income of over $100,000. In other words you can, by manipulation of credit, invest nothing and come out with a tidy fortune. Let us look into a possibility. Outside McAllen, Texas there is citrus land for sale. In its raw state it is priced at $325 per acre, more or less. Ten acres will cost $3,250. You purchase the land outright with the money you raise. You contract with a builder to build you a nice two bedroom brick veneer home. Builders in McAllen are quoting $4,500 to $6,000 for a neat little two bedroom brick home. This is about 50% less than in most areas of the U.S. It will cost you about $1,500 to have the land set out with citrus trees. This would be oranges or grapefruit. Your total outlay might come to $11,000 on paper. It is well to consider that citrus groves require pruning, fertilizing and irrigation each year. This could cost you $500 a year more before there is any return from citrus production. But you can get around this too. Citrus trees are so spaced that, in their first years, truck crops can be raised among them without impairing their growth and development. You can have truck croppers use and irrigate the land. As a condition of using your land you can make a
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