In addition to\u00a0weather (more in a moment), there are just a few comments to make in this post.<\/p>\n
Weather:
\nDenver and the high country received national attention due to a storm that continues today. Here in the western part of the state we received some rain and wind; we can see the snow line up higher but the storm had little effect on us. Denver is a couple hundred miles away and on the other side of the mountains so the weather is often quite different than what we experience here in De Beque. It has been a cold and wet couple of days, though, which curbed some of our normal weekend activities. Our furnace, after not being used for a couple weeks, has been running occasionally overnight. A warm-up is forecast for later next week so conditions will improve.<\/p>\n
The improvement will come at a good time for us as we plan another “home visit” trip this coming Wednesday. Pam and I have identified 4 homes that we would like to have our realtor show us. (Links will take you to the Realtor listing.) The first is a small house with a garage and pond (biggest attraction is the pond). Address is 15977 6100 Road<\/a> in Montrose. The second is an orchard property near Austin, 21761-59 Weaver Road<\/a>. With 600 fruit trees\u00a0(a full working orchard), we are hoping the property has views and a roomy house\u00a0—\u00a0the fruit trees, not so much (but trees are trees,\u00a0plus\u00a0the acreage is totally deer fenced). The third possibility is the Marshall’s Road property I have mentioned in an earlier post. This one has a variety of trees, nice yard, and a few storage buildings plus a view of the West Elk Mountains. Street address is 8903 Marshall’s Road<\/a>. The final house is also a property I have mentioned before, a newer house in foreclosure on Tulip Circle in Montrose. With a large lot and closer to town, this property has some attractive features, including an attached garage and an underground sprinkler system. Buying a $420,000 property for closer to $250,000 could be a prudent investment, but we’d need to wait for the bank to keep lowering the price. The address is 20391 Tulip Circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n We also plan a drive-by to take a look at a total “fixer-upper” property in Cedaredge. In town but with a large lot and independent well to supplement city utilities, this 1930s-era bungalow\u00a0features a dilapidated but salvageable shop, trees, and a low price point. Again, we would consider buying low and fixing up over a couple of years before we retire. The street address on this place is 820 W. Main Street<\/a>, Cedaredge, CO.<\/p>\n Look for many photos of these places as well as our reactions in my next post!<\/p>\n That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n Pam’s Two Cents Worth:<\/p>\n The Winter’s retirement home search is winding down. \u00a0Viewing\u00a0the interiors of two of the homes we have been watching, plus two more, may be [close to] the conclusion of this round of house hunting. \u00a0Sellers\/realtors are anticipating more Buyer\u00a0activity\u00a0as\u00a0the weather improves, and may be less likely to lower their prices and “deal.” Unless\u00a0we find a property\u00a0we cannot refuse, it may be the end of\u00a0Summer\/Fall before we start up the active search again. Our Summers are always busy with high country trips to Sanderling and De Beque yard maintenance anyway.<\/p>\n Happy Trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In addition to\u00a0weather (more in a moment), there are just a few comments to make in this post. Weather: Denver and the high country received national attention due to a storm that continues today. Here in the western part of the state we received some rain and wind; we can see the snow line up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}