Buying land fulfills a dream for many Hispanic immigrants

Successful immigrants are purchasing land and now are spending their spare time as farmers and ranchers, as their families did when they were young. - - Donna Poisl

By JENALIA MORENO, HOUSTON CHRONICLE

FLATONIA — Nelson Jiménez calls out “woo, c'mon,” alerting some of his 300 cattle of feed time. He darts across his 800-acre SA Bar Ranch in his green utility vehicle and shows his ranch hand chores he wants done on this property more than 100 miles west of Houston. The immigrant from El Salvador collects handfuls of eggs laid by hens strutting out of a barn.

This is how Jiménez — owner of a Houston company that repairs more than 300 apartment complexes in Houston and Austin — spends his weekends. He's earned millions of dollars, and now he's living his version of the American dream.

Anecdotally, it appears that more and more Hispanic entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, lawyers, doctors and athletes are buying land near Houston.
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