Hazel estimated in 1987 that he was directly responsible for creating housing for 60,000 of Fairfax County's then 600,000 residents. He has owned or controlled at one time or another thousands of acres of land in Northern Virginia. In 1978, Hazel was quoted that he and Peterson owned "several hundred acres" of undeveloped land that might benefit from a proposed cross-county arterial road. It was reported in 1984 that Hazel had amassed 620 acres in the western Fairfax County. Hazel currently owns and lives on a more than 4000-acre working farm in Fauquier County, Virginia.