Mike Centex grew up exploring the outdoors in the central Texas countryside. As a kid he spent most Spring and Summer days fishing Texas creeks, ponds and lakes as well as the surf and jetties of the Texas Gulf Coast. Most Fall and Winter seasons were spent hunting waterfowl, game birds and whitetail deer throughout the Texas hill country.
With a passion for nature, wildlife, preservation and a love for the land, Mike started a career in real estate after graduation from college in TX. While his professional real estate career transitioned to primarily commercial properties, Mike invested his own money in purchasing unique rural tracts of raw land. He then improved the properties by enhancing the natural beauty and environmental support species of the tract to better serve the land and wildlife. Many tracts were resold at 2-3 times the original investment cost proving that there is economic return to the land through simply enhancing wildlife and natural elements of raw land. Many of these tracts were resold to other like-minded people with a management and conservationist mindset.
Always one with a personal preparedness mindset, the y2K scare and real estate/credit crash of 2007 revived an interest in the lessons learned from grandparents who lived and prospered as self-employed, food producers/purveyors throughout the Great Depression. Having been a teen in the 1970s during the “back to the land” movement, getting back to growing and preserving food at home was a familiar transition. Mike currently manages a food forest, raised bed gardens and small aquaponic system, all in the back yard of a residential suburban home lot.
On weekends, Mike, his wife and children are currently renovating a 200+ acre tract of native post oak savannah halfway between Houston and Dallas/Ft. Worth. This project is the largest to date with improvement projects including water management, permaculture planning, introduction of wildlife support trees and plants species.
Over the past three decades Mike Centex has professionally consulted with others regarding land planning, development and acquisition, investment in income real estate, leasing of hunting and fishing rights, wildlife management, disaster mitigation, Ad Valorem property tax assessment and protest, and real estate brokerage and valuation.
Mike is a TSP Perma Ethos founding member, a past guest on the TSP podcast and a presenter at Jack Spirko’s TSP workshops. More recently, Mike joined the non-profit relief organization Citizens Assisting Citizens (CAC) when he found himself at ground zero of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, TX.
As Mike Tyson is purportedly famous for quoting, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face”.
As Mike Centex says; “Sooner or later YOU are going to be punched in the face. I want to help folks prepare ahead of time for the punch so maybe they can duck it.”
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