0.18 Acres near Lake Tristan — Ivanhoe TX (Private Lakes + RV Friendly)

It's Friday evening. The truck's loaded, the kids are in the back, and ninety minutes out of Houston the traffic finally lets go. You turn off the highway, roll down the dirt road, and pull onto your own lot in Lake Tristan. No reservation. No checkout time. This spot is yours.

It's 0.18 acres in Lake Tristan Section 3, inside the Land of Lakes community in Ivanhoe — one specific lot, and when it sells it's gone. As a property owner you get access to the community's private lakes, the kind of access the public doesn't have.

Here's the part most lots in Ivanhoe can't offer: this one sits in the city's camping district, so it's exempt from the usual 17-day camping limit. You can keep a camper or RV here year-round on an annual city permit, one unit at a time. Nobody can live in an RV full-time anywhere in the city, but for weekends and long stays, this is about as open as Ivanhoe gets. When you're ready for something permanent, you can build a home or set a manufactured or modular home.

And getting in is easier than people expect. You deal with me directly — I'm Chris, a real person, not a call center — and there's no bank and no credit check. $149 down gets the lot in your name, then it's $158 a month for five years, with the taxes and note fee already baked into that payment. Want to skip the payments? It's $6,500 cash. Either way you're covered by a 90-day money-back guarantee on what you've paid.

A few practical things: water and electric run to the road (Texas Water Utilities and Sam Houston Electric Co-op), access is by dirt road, and you'll add a septic system when you build — standard out here.

Quick facts:

• 0.18 acres — Lake Tristan Sec 3, Block 131, Lot 51
• Ivanhoe, TX (Tyler County) — about 90 minutes from Houston, under an hour from Beaumont
• City camping district: year-round camping on an annual permit (one unit; no full-time RV living)
• Build single-family, manufactured, or modular
• Water and electric at the road; dirt road access; septic at build time
• Private community lakes for property owners
• $149 down, $158/month for 60 months (taxes & note fee included)
• or $6,500 cash
  

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