I do not want to live in bare desert. If the pines around Prescott are gone, I'd go south of Flag, even if it has become totally lefty.
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Nope, never even heard about the fire. But cedar is OK too. Just no bare desert or sagebrush and sparse juniper.
When those 19 firefighters were killed in the fire?
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Was that the one started by ICE?
Probably.
Never heard about it. Don't watch that much news.
Why would ICE start a fire, especially around Prescott?
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That's a different one.....
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At least no one died
Yeah, that was south of Tucson, nowhere near Prescott, and an off-duty border patrol agent is not ICE.
Wow! At least it was started by lightning, not some idiot shooting at explosives.
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ICE is funner to say than boring old border patrol
Pardon my pickiness. Having worn the policeman's badge at one time, I am a bit sensitive about who is doing what and getting one mixed up with another.
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Cheap is not in the vocabulary of real estate - look for the words "fixer," "cozy" or "potential" lol
Ha ha ha... fixer and distressed came up with $516,700 and $609,900 and a badly used double wide mobile for $299,900. Something tells me that I will not be moving there. I have here (my home) a 2BR, 2BA, 1200 sq.ft. house, detached 2+ car garage, 30'x48' shop, two barns 24'x36' each, chicken coop, and the 1910 homestead cabin on 10 acres, fenced and cross fenced, many of my tools will be included (e.g., 1984 Bobcat, riding mower, snow blower, etc.) and I would accept $100,000, but that wouldn't even make a good down payment on those "fixer uppers" in Prescott, which, I was told, was a very reasonable place. Pardon me, but Jesus Fucking H. Christ on a Hobby Horse....
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My friend Mark paid 56K for 10 acres with a house and mobile home on the property near Dewey AZ, which is fairly close to Prescott. He rents both homes. He is going to tear then both down and build a new one when he retires in a few years.
I obviously have not called him yet (no offers on this place), but how long ago was that and has there been a recent housing boom?
No housing boom in cowboy country. I think he bought the property about two yrs ago.
Then there really is no good reason why all the prices I am finding are so outrageous.
Hell, lots or small parcels sell for 300K in the greater Scottsdale-Phoenix area, you drive 30-40 miles north, the price is about 100K. Huge difference when your not in the city of Scottsdale or Phoenix, which now stretches to almost New River, if your familiar with the area.
I have no idea what your looking at.
You can just read back a few posts and see what I was searching for.
I have no intention of living in or even too near the "big city." Hell, I really would not even want to live inside the city limits of Prescott. What I would like is to have the place I have right now (description is 7 or 8 posts up from here), but located in the sun belt instead of the snow zone.
SSDD but mostly cloudy and 26 degrees for a high.
Had king crab for dinner this evening, all I could think of was @JuicyLucy NOT liking seafood, had to think to myself, how could someone not like this.....
Damn those were some delicious crab. Got um at Costco....biggest crab legs I ever remember seeing.
Damn those were some delicious crab. Got um at Costco....biggest crab legs I ever remember seeing.
Feels like about 40 degrees outside at the moment, haven't looked at the forecast, but it feeling like frost weather in the air.
Snow belts are not for me either.
Frost in Scottsdale on Decucumber the First? Shit! The end of the world is coming!
I love Alaskan King Crab legs....
Yup, usually not until the end of January-first of Feb we get frost....coming earlier this year due to the global warming.
When the place one is prospecting is 1500-1800 miles from where he is currently located, he ain't finding none of those signs.
There you go, it the nail on the head....and the word "Auction" is another good one....
But those words are NOT turning up reasonable results.
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What site are you using?
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General search engine, then reading all available hits. Each of those words turns up several pages and all of them are, in my opinion, extremely over priced.
Your not going to find anything on the interweb worth buying, you have to actually search in person, like I did in EC. Hell, the realtors were trying to sell me hectares for 25K...I bought almost 200 hectares for less than 150K. Have to do a lot of traveling, talk to local folks, fuck the realtors and the interweb.
And that produced $90,000 for 2 acres on a hillside with no buildings and an unfinished house for $649,000. Come on folks...
Take the word Prescott or Prescott Valley out of the search term.
Nice find Juice....looks like some nice property.
Well, we found this place on the internet 15 years ago. And if I have to fly down to AZ to "search in person," it simply ain't gonna happen. I would spend way too much money in the search, leaving nothing to buy with. Remember, we don't have any extra money to play with.
When I used "near Prescott," some of the properties were 30-40 miles out of town and still priced too high.
I'll take a drive up there in the spring, my old buddy Mark wanted me to look at what it would take to bring water to the rear of this property, where there is an abandoned gold mine...he wanted to fuck around trying his luck sluicing some rock.
Well, maybe Mark can rent one of those houses to me and I'll help him mine the gold.
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