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[Bentiron]

Surprise used to be nothing more than a stop for trains to load up farm produce and where farm workers lived then came Sun City and big change came to the area. Peoria right next door grew too, both town right on the train tracks and right across them from Sun City. If you couldn't buy it in Sun City then you got it in Peoria and you hired house keepers and lawn care from Surprise and thus it was until land started getting expensive in the west valley along the I-10 West corridor and then Peoria and Surprise started to grow along the Grand Ave. corridor, things are booming out there now that the second loop is going to be finished soon.

[PhilNM]

Thanks all. I thought of Prescott, but that place is wacko expensive. Last time I was there, they have almost a foot of snow. (LOOOOOng time ago).
I'm fixing up the place I live in now, will probably be ready to put it on the market and move in about a year. What makes it hard to move out of NM are the benefits they give disabled veterans. Free auto license for life, no annual property taxes, free passes to he museums and parks, stuff like that. I do hate that they give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants tho.... along with all sorts of other perks. Don't mind as long as they came here legally, but the illegal ones just aren't what this veteran likes.
Thanks!
Oh.... and the VA hospital here is worse than the one in Phoenix..... they just won't let it get into the news. have you noticed the furor over VA treatment of vets has died down to a mere whimper? And nothing has changed at all. In 2+ years, I'm now on Md #6 in the VA doctor shuffle. All they want to do is dispense pills anyway. AGGGGh, don't get me started!

[Enchantra]

Phil..
I can get you into contact with a good realtor who does the whole Phoenix area.  He's good.  He's amazingly thorough as well.  He goes the extra mile for his customers.  He just helped us find the house we just bought and he stayed with us every step of the way.  Really awesome guy.  Odd sense of humor too!

[Bentiron]

Another area you may want to consider is the Miami/Globe area, predominately Hispanic population but that's OK, mostly mine workers but an active art community and it's high desert and some awe inspiring vistas. Dewey/Humbolt area is also nice not far from Prescott, Tucson is nice and also an active art community, kind of a cross between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, an OK town. 

[hummingbirdstones]

Prescott isn't any more expensive than living in Phoenix.  Living in Prescott proper is more expensive than the surrounding towns (hence why Vince and I live in Chino), but overall, not that bad.  One of the draws for lots of folks is the VA hospital in Prescott.  It gets rave reviews from the vets here.  I know a lot of vets who use the VA hospital and have never heard a bad word about it.

Last winter was so mild, I think it only snowed once and it wasn't much of a snow.  Really not much of a winter to speak of.  Totally messed my fruit trees up, 'cuz they bloomed too early and a late cold snap killed all the blooms.   

[PhilNM]

Thanks. I'll keep all that in mind when it's time to sell this place and move to nicer digs.  I see a place with some acres, a stream, some game and fishing opportunities, and good soil for planting. Some winter is Ok, actually preferable if you want to grow certain fruit and nut trees. Oh, and some wild and wacky women are OK too.... <grin>

Thanks for the heads up on the VA in Prescott, that carries a lot of weight, as do the local gold and pretty rock prospecting opportunities.

[Bentiron]

My wife and I were in Chino on Friday last looking at homes, some eleven of them, not too expensive, she wants a slightly cooler place for our pack of Huskies to live and she wants out of the crowded Valley of the Sun. Just as long as I can keep the inside comfortable and have internet access I guess that I can be happy with her anywhere her heart desires to go. One house we looked at was made of this beautiful purplish conglomerate quartz sandstone kind of rock with ceder log upper with a concrete tile roof, really small, only some 1,100SF, with two stall horse barn, well and shop bldg, nice place for one but not for two with a pack of dogs. My wife would use  her inheritance from her parents to buy it, I sure don't have any money have been a stay at home jeweler type dad on disability for twenty years now. Always hurt to blasted bad to accomplish anything worthwhile. There is a six acre commercial/residential piece of property just north of the round about on the west side of the highway for a very good price $164K, not a bad price but not what we wanted.

[hummingbirdstones]

Ack!  You were here and didn't let us know?????   :confused

I don't know what your criteria are, but there will be a house up soon right across the street from us that is being rehabbed.  It should be really nice when it's done.  One of our agent's investors bought it (bank owned) and have gutted it.  I've heard that they do really nice work (not half- ).  I can let you know when it's going to go up if you want.  I'm assuming you already have an agent up here, if you saw 11 houses.   

[vitzitziltecpatl]

Hi there, Bentiron! Sounds like a busy day if you folks saw eleven properties. Next time you're up this way let us know in advance. If you're up here on a weekend Robin and I would really enjoy meeting you.

She mentioned a property in our neighborhood that's presently being renovated. Four homes have sold near us since we moved here. We used to live in a leased cabin in Highland Pines, which is one of the crazy-expensive areas Phil mentioned. We rented the place there when we got married, then eventually found this place in a nice old Chino neighborhood.

You do get a lot more for the same money if you give up the "cool pines" for the flatlands of good ol' Chino Valley. But I guess "cool" is a relative thing, eh? I've lived in the Valley - and moved back up here as soon as I could...!

[Bentiron]

Oh my, more home looking on line and in person, what I like my wife doesn't and what she likes I don't and the one we agreed on we missed out on by a few hours, so it goes. There is one that is kinda OK but not pretty, kinda ugly but serviceable for the pack of dogs and maybe a room for me and my metal work, who knows. Summers are cooler up there and that is a plus, seems like a nice community, friendly folks and did I mention cooler, especially at night. One house was a real pit but my wife liked it, I just said no and went back to the car, so much work to make it habitable, need D-9 renovation, just level it and start over.

[vitzitziltecpatl]

Heh. D-9 renovation. Too funny! She liked it and you would remodel it with a Cat. As you've seen, there's a real mixed bag of properties in Chino. But as I type this it's 9:00 PM and 73 degrees. It'll be down to 60 or so overnight.

[Bentiron]

The one we both agreed on had to have a goodly amount of work done on it but at least it didn't need to torn down to be liveable. Maybe next week sometime or the next we will most likely be up looking at another half dozen properties or so. Sometime I wonder if the dogs are worth the trouble.