Another Option

John still loves that funky property in Placitas that we discovered with our real estate agent. It just fits us and the way we live. I suppose that makes us funky, too. hehe

But yesterday while having fun at the Corrales Harvest Festival, we drove by a sign for a property that made John want to check it out, so we did.
Down a long drive past horse paddocks and to the very end, where another side lane began. There was some info on a gate, so John walked up and picked one of the brochures, and a friednly woman invited us to come onto her property to see it. Cool.

The woman was obviously an animal lover verging on 'collecting'. She had 8 horses, a donkey, a pig, guinea fowl, ducks, dogs, cats, rabbits, and so on. But she lived in a camper trailer on the land. Her stalls were bigger than her own living space. It appeared that she had more animals inside her trailer, too.
But all the animals looked happy and healthy and we enjoyed visiting and strolling the property for almost an hour!

We especially enjoyed walking around in the very large horse corral/pasture withe 7 very friendly horses, which acted more like dogs. They were always right beside us sniffing, nudging, rubbing, and looking for petting. Jackson & Jeremiah loved climbing the trees on the land, and Jenna couldn't stop smiling about all the horses who couldn't get enough of her and followed her around so much, that I finally felt the need to carry her around, lest she get knocked over by too much 'horse love'. hehe

I wasn't much impressed with the property, especially the asking price, at first, but somehow John opened up my eyes to the many prospects, with his creative vision. It does have potential and could be something really special for our family.

The land has water acequia rights from the Rio Grande, so we could have grass, more fruit trees, and pasture. It's a very private property with no homes behind it and is on the end of a gravel lane. The neighbors are professional barrelriders/ropers with a corral where they train the horses. So that's kind of neat. There are large shade trees, fruit trees, and it backs up to horse/walking trails to the Rio Grande Bosque. And it's on the northern end of Corrales, which tends to be quieter and more rural.

Some concerns are the unregistered well, 110V electric, easement to a possible new homesite off the gravel lane, the obvious signs of coyote habitation on the acequia banks behind the property, and some minor trepidation about the hermit veteran who has a small home next door....a little spooky. Also the gravel road easement through the neighbor's properties to reach this land is a bit odd, but not too awful...just a very narrow one lane road with irrigated agri farm on one side and homes/horse paddocks on the other.

But there is some real promise with this site.....so we will keep this one tucked away, just in case.

Speaking of case, all of our cases are finally going into Settlement Mediation on November 3 !!!!! We are so close now !!