Buying a home is a financial asset.  As you pay your mortgage each month, the money goes toward principal.  So a forced saving.  The money is not ” going down the drain”.  As you pay each month your equity (the amount of your home you actually own) grows.  TO BE CONTINUED!

Poultry processor Sanderson Farms has opened shop on 17.3 acres in the Lindale Business Park in Smith County.  $18 million for offices & a hatchery.  The total complex will employ 1,700, require 80 contract growers & process 275 million pounds of dressed poultry meat annually.  Sanderson Farms has operations in Smith, Wood, Brazos, Robertson, McLennan & Anderson counties.

Texas’ annual growth rate is 3.1% and the nation’s is 1.6%.  All Texas industries except information had more jobs.  Mining & logging industry ranked 1st in job creation, followed by construction, then professional & business service, then leisure & hospitality and finally transportation, warehousing & utilities.  TYLER is one of 4 other cities and their surrounding cities to GROW.