Point is a lake town, and Lake Tawakoni is the reason. The community sits on the shoreline of one of East Texas’s biggest fishing and boating lakes, and its properties reflect that: waterfront homes, weekend places, rental cabins, and in-town lots that fill up when the weather turns warm. Under the lake life, the ground is Rains County through and through: acid soil, pine and hardwood shade, and sandy lakeside stretches. Mora Property Service works Point properties every week, running crews northwest from Jacksonville, about an hour and a half up the road.
If your property is in Point, call 903-279-1868.
Property service in Point
Point runs at community scale. The property work here is residential and lake-property first, with the community’s small commercial lots, churches, and lake-adjacent businesses rounding it out. We hold grounds contracts across all of it, sized for everything from an in-town lot to a waterfront place with a long drive, with the reliability that lake ownership actually requires, because a good share of these properties are not occupied every week.
Residential lawn, landscape, and tree care
Point homeowners deal with the same long growing season as the rest of East Texas, with lake-country conditions on top: acid sandy soil, pine and hardwood shade, and the needle litter that comes with it. Waterfront and near-lake properties add their own rhythm, with weekend homes, rental cabins, and full-time residences all sharing the same ground. We run weekly and bi-weekly lawn routes through the area, install and renovate landscapes, and handle tree work from storm-damaged limbs to full removals.
Built for Rains County soil and turf
Rains County ground runs to acid soil under lake-county shade, and both facts change how lawns grow. Acidic soil locks up nutrients that lawns need, and the canopy slows growth and drops litter that has to be managed or the turf underneath suffers. Sandy lakeside ground drains fast, which cuts both ways: fewer puddles, but nutrients leach away quickly. Bermuda handles the open sun; St. Augustine takes the shade. The properties that thrive here are the ones cared for with the soil and the lake-country light in mind.
Every service we offer in Point
- Commercial and community property service — small commercial, churches, and lake-adjacent properties.
- Lawn maintenance — weekly and bi-weekly mowing for homes and lake properties.
- Fertilization, weed and pest control — programs for acid lakeside soil.
- Sod, aeration and renovation — new turf and repairs for sandy, shaded lawns.
- Landscape design and installation — lakeside plantings and shoreline care.
- Hardscape and outdoor living — patios, walls, and outdoor spaces.
- Irrigation — sprinkler installation, repair, and seasonal tuning.
- Tree service — pruning, removal, and storm work.
- Property cleanup — needle litter, brush, and debris hauling.
- Fencing — metal and wrought-iron fence installation and repair.
We also serve the neighboring Rains and Wood County communities, including Emory, Alba, and Yantis.
Get a Point quote
Call 903-279-1868 or request a quote. Tell us where the property is and what it needs, and we will get a crew out to look at it.
Point service coverage
Point’s routes run the Lake Tawakoni shoreline and the town behind it — waterfront lots, lake roads, and the rural stretches between — with crews assigned by area for dependable windows. The lake calendar flexes the schedule, and the marina calendar flexes it again.
Working the waterfront
Point’s service plans account for what the water does to a property: wind exposure that shapes the tree work, sandy ground that shapes the turf plan, and shoreline rules that shape everything near the bank. The plans read the lot’s position on the water, because two Point properties a mile apart can need different programs.
Turf in the lake air
Point turf decisions start with the soil and the shade: sandy ground drains fast and feeds light, the pine canopy shades what the sun would otherwise reach, and soil testing settles the feeding schedule. Grass matched to the site is the cheapest improvement a lake lot can make.
Pines and shoreline trees
Point tree work reads the stand and the bank together: dead pines marked before storm season, shoreline hardwoods pruned conservatively, and removals rigged over docks, decks, and the paths between. Nothing comes down the easy way on a waterfront lot — and the plan accounts for it.
Commercial around the lake
Point’s commercial properties — marinas, campgrounds, and the business edges — run on appearance standards that meet lake-country reality. Those contracts carry their own schedules, one point of contact, and priority storm response.
Storm response around Tawakoni
Lake storms push debris toward the water, and Point’s response order is built around that: access, hazards, the field — with containment so nothing reaches the lake on the next rain.
One contact, every service
Point clients get a single contact across mowing, landscape, irrigation, tree, cleanup, and fencing — one call, one invoice, and a property file that travels to each visit.
The Point season
Spring clears winter’s litter and starts the feed; summer runs mowing at pace with irrigation tuned; fall takes the needle drop and the landscape reset; winter handles pruning, removals, and planning. The marina calendar flexes the timing around the busy weekends.
Shoreline and town together
Point’s routes cover the waterfront properties and the town lots on one standard — one contact and one invoice for owners with more than one place in the area.
How Point quotes work
A Point quote comes from a walk of the property: turf, beds, trees, irrigation, and the shoreline considerations where they apply, priced in writing with each service on its own line.
Point questions we hear
Do you handle waterfront work? Yes — with containment planned. Can you work around docks and lifts? Yes — rigging plans cover them. How fast can you start? Standard services usually within the week.
Why local matters on the lake
Local means knowing which Point stands are thinning, which lots hold water, and how the lake winds treat each shoreline. It also means the same crew returns next season — the part clients value most.
Planning the lake year
Point properties that plan a season ahead get the calendar’s best slots: spring work booked in winter, irrigation checked before the heat, fall litter work before the drop. The planning visit is free and pays for itself by the next service.
Getting started with Point service
Starting service at Point takes one visit and one conversation. The walk covers the property — turf, beds, trees, irrigation, the shoreline where it applies — and the conversation covers what the owner actually wants handled first. From those two things comes a written scope with each service priced on its own line.
Then the schedule: routine work goes on its rotation immediately, and the one-time projects get slotted around it. Most Point clients start with the lawn and add services as the relationship proves itself — which is exactly the order we recommend, because the routine services are how a property’s history gets built.
The first month is a calibration period by design: the crew learns the lot’s quirks — the wet corner, the gate that needs two hands, the bed the deer work hardest — and the service plan adjusts to what the first visits find.
