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Looks like I will be moving in the near future. Want to stay in CO but WY and MT might be an option too.
The western slope is looking more promising. Haven't looked in the south yet. If more than 10 acres, I'd like mineral and water rights. Yes, I am picky.
Requisites are:
Land-the more he better.
Garages/Outbuildings-Again, the more the better.
House-Yes. Older the better. Not into glorified mobile homes.
The more trees the better.
Bordering FS is a plus.
No HOAs or covenants.
Suggestions?
I've been looking at this.
http://www.landwatch.com/Colorado_land_for_sale
hurley842002
09-05-2015, 00:51
I don't have a whole lot of actual info, but I did a good bit of research on Grand Junction, and got some good feedback from some of the members here (if I can find the GJ thread I started i'll link it here). It's definitely on my top 5 places I wouldn't mind living, unfortunately it's out now, due to my new job. I would have really liked to get a good chunk of land in East Utah, off of I70 (where it is super cheap), within reasonable driving distance to GJ, and just lived in Utah but live "out of" GJ. Unfortunately your trees are few and far between out that way. Let me see if I can dig up any of the stuff I was looking at for the Western slope.
Bailey Guns
09-05-2015, 06:41
Suggestions?
Yeah...buy my house. It's got just about everything on your list!
[Coffee]
buffalobo
09-05-2015, 07:40
I've been looking at this.
http://www.landwatch.com/Colorado_land_for_sale
+1 on this site.
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Great-Kazoo
09-05-2015, 08:13
I don't have a whole lot of actual info, but I did a good bit of research on Grand Junction, and got some good feedback from some of the members here (if I can find the GJ thread I started i'll link it here). It's definitely on my top 5 places I wouldn't mind living, unfortunately it's out now, due to my new job. I would have really liked to get a good chunk of land in East Utah, off of I70 (where it is super cheap), within reasonable driving distance to GJ, and just lived in Utah but live "out of" GJ. Unfortunately your trees are few and far between out that way. Let me see if I can dig up any of the stuff I was looking at for the Western slope.
GJ itself is too fukin crowded (60K+ pop) Traffic in GJ ( campus area) itself , horrendous. There are however a moderate amount of possibilities 30 - 60 minutes out from GJ.
The question is How much can you afford, how far from stores & medical can or want to be etc. If you plan on finding employment GJ or Durango is the place. Want to get away and your purchase be the last one. Delta, Cortez are in your sights.
WE looked at some places in Montrose, interesting area. One place looked great on paper 5ac out of town. great view of the mountains. Oh it was 5 ac, of frontage running along the 2 lane road. The view was spectacular, till you looked down............. at the FEED LOT !
That area is growing and will eventually end up being part of GJ. As Thornton is now "North Denver" or feels like it .
We've found a few places BUT way out of our price range. Ideally locating a place with lots of acreage and dwellings is the way to go. THEN find like minded people to "invest" in it. There's a few forum members who we'd be more than happy to split 50-100+ acres with. Unfortunately they have kids and need to work.
Us on the other hand are at or close to retirement age ;) We'd like to find a place that's affordable, buy it and retire. Possibly a PT job to cover taxes & utilities.
There's numerous possibilities when 1 other "investor" is involved.
I have ideas of buying in Park county and building a tiny home until I could afford a bigger one later.
I plan on moving up to the mountains when I retire. Not quite sure where just yet. I've still got about 18 years to figure that part out.
Thanks for the link Sturving.
I was following the GJ thread. Outside of GJ is interesting.
Yeah...buy my house. It's got just about everything on your list!
[Coffee]
Including the price tag. [LOL]
Good luck finding a place. Would love to move east or west with 40+ acres, now all I need to to is win the powerball!
My sister's farm is in Silt; nice place. It takes about 75 minutes to get to Grand Junction from there, and it is less than a half hour to Glenwood. The western slope is nice, but it is changing too because of the resort commuters and it is hit by illegal immigration too. If I stayed in Colorado, I would probably go Park County like somewhere around Como.
I can't help on the place but I can tell you that finding a property with mineral rights is going to be difficult. We've been looking at land for 4 months now and the majority of sellers don't even know who owns the rights. I believe you can track down the owner through the county but we haven't had one that we were close enough to buying (since the Elizabeth property fell through) to really dig into it.
You'll have better luck with water rights and especially on lots over 35 acres. We have found a few down to as small as 5 acres that actually retained water rights. We've also found a couple that have the rights but the current owners are taking them with them. I've realized that some people really want to F'up the surface, mineral, water rights as much as possible for future owners. ;-)
This won't help with water rights but you can track down well details, date, depth, flow, aquifer, etc. It's pretty interesting and could prove useful.
http://165.127.23.41:8000/aquamap100.svg
Once you have the permit number you can get more details here - http://www.dwr.state.co.us/wellpermitsearch/
We bought 126 acres by Olathe (10 miles north of Montrose) for 120,000. Includes 14 acres of irrigated ground. Got real lucky on it.
There's some deals to be had in Delta county to be sure. One advantage of the Hotchkiss area is Stengels range. Decent range with covered pistol and 100 yard range and 1000 yard range with target pits.
I can't help on the place but I can tell you that finding a property with mineral rights is going to be difficult.
Mineral and water are tough. Had some friends looking in Cortez and water rights were non existent.
Weld Co is a prime example of what not having mineral rights can be like. Wells in the back yard and nothing you can do about it.
Great-Kazoo
09-06-2015, 23:18
Mineral and water are tough. Had some friends looking in Cortez and water rights were non existent.
Weld Co is a prime example of what not having mineral rights can be like. Wells in the back yard and nothing you can do about it.
I'm in town in weld cty. We have water & mineral rights. The non-potable well has been here since 1912 and the O&G rights we received 4 months ago. . Not bad for 1/4 ac ~ in town.
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