Ranch Gates/Signs - Contest

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

1. Turkey Track Bar

2. JiggerBoss

3. Jassy

4. Lilly

5. Julie

 

[OldDog/NewTricks]

Whow!
Money will win but not with my vote!

 

[azcowpuncher]

Mine either , a little too out there for me , kinda tacky

 

[Shelly]

Wow! How much would that set someone back??? Probably more than what we live on in a year!

 

[kolanuraven]

Wonder what the house/barns look like behind those gates! YUMMY!!!!!

 

[IL Rancher]

Depending on the area and what you are selling you might just about have to hve a gate that looks like that.. Kind of like the realators around Chicago that sell million+ dollar homes better be driving a nice car or they are SOL.. Just one of those things.. I showed it to my wife and told her we needed to get a gate like that and she laughed and said only if it was a bulhead with horns stretching out to the pillars instead of two horse heads.. I'm thinking she was jokng :lol: :lol:

It is a very nice picture however and if I was voting I would vote on picture composition instead of subject matter.. But that is just me..

 

[kolanuraven]

Driving a nice car is REALTOR RULE #1.....

Nice clean neat shoes for men or women is REALTOR RULE #2

No kidding!

 

[IL Rancher]

I had a budy whose dad was in real estate, could sometimes barely keep the electricity on at the office or at home (Probably couldn't if mom wasn't a teacher with full benifits) and he drove one of the nice Benz's you could get.. And he wasn't even selling high class houses that much.. The old dress for success rules.. Now, in farm country it seems a bit different.. Farm guy might be better served in a rusty old pickup truck with coffee cups from the local gas station on the floor because otherwise he might just be too succesfull and the farmer might think he is getting too much of a comission :lol: :lol:

Father in law used to do some real estate stuff in Chicago, a lot of commercial properties..some interesting stories about real estate and brokers.. Said one of the happiest days he had was selling that business :shock: :lol: :lol:

 

[Judith]

I WANT PONY GATES LIKE THAT!!!


Course it might look funny when ya pulled up to the house and saw it

 

[IL Rancher]

Now you sound like the wifey when I showed her that gate and suggested we get some.. She told me the gate was worth more than our house :lol: :lol:

 

[DJL]

Oh come on, IR, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, so don't worry about what the house looks like. The gates have said it all!

 

[Turkey Track Bar]

Great photos everyone :clap: :clap:

I particularlly liked Jassy's sign...the longer I looked at it, the more it grew on me. That is really cool how it lines up with the hills behind it to look like the horse and rider are actually standing on the hill, and the cows are grazing on another lower hill.

Lilly, thanks for all of your hardwork with the contest.

Have a great day!

Cheers---

TTB :wink:

 

[IL Rancher]

Oh come on, IR, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, so don't worry about what the house looks like. The gates have said it all!

I'll pass that on and show a picture to m father in law.. He thinks the place should look either 1) Like a golf course 2) Like his friend who is a multi millionare who runs a purebred operation as a tax shelter and has 3-4 full time employees just for grounds keeping or 3) Like JR Ewings place in Dallas... I think that is the impression I got.. Maybe if I show him the picture he will put on in as a "gift" for his daughter, lol...I'm wondering how long it would take a local hooligan to spray paint it, lol.

 

[Julie]

Okay, now before you'all think those gates are at my place --they aren't

they are here in the county and belong to a paint horse outfit and yes, ostentatious they are --but quite unique. They've been there 5 or so years now and so far, that I know of, no one has vandalized them in anyway.

I've always been struck by how GATES and entry ways seem to be a BIG DEAL here in NM more so than other places I've lived. Might be a ramshackle single wide down the lane, but the gate at the road will be a work of welding and metal cutting art!

 

[IL Rancher]

They remind me a lot of the gates where I grew up. When I was young, and the area was more rural there weren't any but when folks start coming in and building their million or buck homes, and I mean million just for the house, has nothing to do with what it did to property values, these gates started popping up.. WE used to laugh about them because no one was that important to need to be walled in like that but it almost seems the norm that when new folks come in, they tear down the old house and build a mini castle with an iron gate.. About the only thing missing is a moat.