Build Your Off-Grid Home on 5 Acres

Land Description

Owner Financing:

- $250 down (plus the $250 doc fee)

- $250 down $175/Mo for 62 months (plus prorated taxes and a $12/Mo note maintenance fee)

Wake Up to Mt. Blanca and a Sky That Goes All Day

Out here in south-central Colorado, five miles east of a 14,345-Foot peak and eighteen miles from the tallest sand dunes on the continent, the land does most of the talking. Scrub brush underfoot, Sangre de Cristos stretched across the horizon, and a quiet so complete the wind starts sounding like company.

The ranch sits inside the San Luis Valley, which runs roughly the size of Connecticut and is one of the largest high-altitude alpine valleys in the world. San Luis, Colorado, just down the road, was founded in 1851 and is the oldest continuously occupied town in the state. Decent dinner-party fact for the day somebody asks where you disappear to. Alamosa and Pueblo handle the supply runs.

Now the honest part. Elevation is 7,712 feet, so it's high and arid. Terrain is scrub brush and flat-to-rolling, easy dirt-road access a little over a mile from the highway. Cell works depending on carrier. Wells in this pocket of the valley run deep, so most folks go with a water cistern and a small solar setup rather than drilling. Once it's in, you're off-grid and quiet.

Some land sells the view. This one hands you the whole mountain and trusts you'll know what to do with it.

Subdivision: S.L.V.R. Unit 7

Street Address: N/A, near Ll 9th St, Blanca, CO 81123

State: Co

COUNTY: Costilla County, Co

Zip: 81123

Size: 5.00 acres

LOT Dimensions: 630 feet x 333 feet

Apn: 703-48-950

Legal Description: Lot 14, Block 6, Replat Of The San Luis Valley Ranches, Inc. Unit 7, Costilla County, Colorado

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Lat/Long Coordinates:

Nw: 37.480677, -105.572480

Ne: 37.480670, -105.571350

Sw: 37.478948, -105.572489

Se: 37.478943, -105.571350

Elevation: 7,712 feet

ANNUAL Taxes: Approx. $170.00 per year

ZONING: Vacant Lot - Residential - Site built home 600sqft min and manufactured homes are ok, no live-in rvs (not allowed in Colorado) for more than 14 days. Long term camping/rv permit can be applied for (60 days - with up to 3 renewals, $200 fee - septic & water required). Please contact Costilla Co, CO Planning & Zoning at ?? to discuss zoning regulations in further detail.

FLOOD Zone: No

HOA/POA: No

IMPROVEMENTS: None

ACCESS: Property can be accessed via Ll 9th St.

WATER: Would be a well, water haul and holding tank or other similar option

SEWER: Would be by Septic

UTILITIES: Power by solar, wind or generator, Phone by cellular, satellite Tv/Internet/Phone