Rancho Rancheros Petrified Forest Area

[Bonnie R]

I have further researched and Navajo county assures me that there is water in Rancho. I have 2 1/2 acres for sale up there. We can't use the land and are anxious to sell. With the casino going in and the town of Williams building a huge theme park this land will be very valuable in the next year. Asking $10,000 with all fee's paid. Taxes are up to date at $14.00 per year.

[CabbieJm]

I just purchased an acre on Riverside Ave. just off I-40 Does anyone know of any pictures of this area? Thanks

[CabbieJm]

I just purchased an acre on Riverside Ave. just off I-40 Does anyone know of any pictures of this area? Please email me at [e-mail] Thanks

[Andy J-- Virginia]

Bonnie R Cave Creek Az wrote:

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I own 2 1/2 acres at Rancho in Sun Valley. I bought it on Ebay at a very reasonable price-sight unseen- and am very pleased with my purchase. Having a corner section this makes it mor appealing. My investment has tripled in a year. My husband and I are talking about putting up a dome house as the winds are so great up there. Wanting to be self sufficient we plan on having potable water and a generator. At this time the only thing that is required by the county is a septic tank. The landscape is very flat but when we saw the wild cattle, the wonderful views and rocks we fell in love and yes it is a lot cooler up there compared to down here in the valley. The history is pretty exciting with a part of route 66 running along Shari road. Hope to see all you new neighbor's up there in the future.

anI own 2 1/2 ac on sunset rd in rancheros, when i checked it out there was a pump house w/elect. and a water pipe on the front of my prop. line. I'm also planning on building a 48 ft dome from AIDOMES sometime in the near future 2-3 yrs.have you any detailes on septic contractor yet?

[Bonnie R]

Hi all, I haven't been up to my land for some time. Can anyone tell me if there is any building going on and if the utilities have come in closer to all of our property?
I am still wanting to sell this property-#117- Lots 5 & 6/ parcel ID 105-64-229 & 230. I would like to get $10,000.00 for the 2 1/2 acres. Email me at [e-mail] if you are interested or know anyone interested. My husband has just gone on kidney dialysis and we will not be planning anything for the land. With this serious illness of my husband I have to give up my dream of building up there.

[Frank]

I have been up there and the lots are not marked, the roads (if you can find them) are way too soft to drive on--I've asked the Land Bank for help in getting my lots marked so I can find them and I have been basically told to forget it---I am going to try and see if the State Dept. of Realtors can give them a nudge--I'll see . I don't know where all these houses and beautiful landscaping are.

[Frank]

Bonnie R wrote:

Hi all, I haven't been up to my land for some time. Can anyone tell me if there is any building going on and if the utilities have come in closer to all of our property?
I am still wanting to sell this property-#117- Lots 5 & 6/ parcel ID 105-64-229 & 230. I would like to get $10,000.00 for the 2 1/2 acres. Email me at [e-mail] if you are interested or know anyone interested. My husband has just gone on kidney dialysis and we will not be planning anything for the land. With this serious illness of my husband I have to give up my dream of building up there.

I am in #80 lots 66/67 and NO there are and will never be utilities or roads which will allow you to get to your property untill we write to the Arizona Attorney Generals Office and file a complaint (which myself and a few others have done) the roads (if you want to call them roads) are nothing but VERY soft sand--the lots are not marked so you don't know where they are. The county told me that the land is rural so there is no laws stating they have to be accesable or marked, but if you don't pay your taxes they will take it from you--SO if anybody else is as Pissed off as I am You need to write to the Az Attorney Generals office--they advised that until they receive complaints there is nothing they can do. If you need more info e-mail me at "[e-mail] "

[Hammerhead46]

netlady wrote:

Sun Valley just a few miles from Holbrook which is a pretty nice town - and there is plenty of water in the area (always a concern in AZ). We didn't want to get into an area with snow (plan on leaving our shovels in IA). Not to mention the price was right when retirement is around the corner. Flat dirt sounds good to me.

Bring your shovels, if we have a normal snow year which we haven't for most of the last 25.
Normal years we have about 6 inches on the ground all winter from Nov to Early March.
Most of the last 25 we have gotten maybe 4 inches total all winter until 07-08 when we had about 4 in on ground most of winter.
PRAY for that snow and slow melt as that is where most of the water we get comes from on a yearly basis, at the moment we are about 12 inches behind where we should be for the last 5 years.
Also you HAUL your drinking and cooking water as the local water is to salty to drink even if you are on the water lines and most of Sun Valley does not have water lines!

[Hammerhead46]

netlady wrote:

Heard there is a new casino planned for East of Sun Vally - anyone else know anything about that?

The Navajo nation is building a casino in Sanders on I-40 as that is on the Navajo Nation.
It is about 40 miles east of Holbrook.

[Hammerhead46]

Bonnie R Cave Creek Az wrote:

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I would definetly check out the water situation. We have been told that the water has a very high chemical level and being so rocky it is hard to drill but talk to the owner of the Sun Valley RV park. He is the mayor, post master and well driller and everything else.

He isn't here anymore and never was the "MAYOR"
The highest OFFICIALS in Sun Valley proper are the 3 members of the Fire Department Board of Directors, They are elected to 6 year terms with one of them up for reelection every 2 years.
The water is VERY SALTY you haul your drinking and cooking water.
I have lived in Sun Valley for about 15 years.
Most of Sun Valley does not have water lines.

[Hammerhead46]

Bonnie R Cave Creek Az wrote:

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I own 2 1/2 acres at Rancho in Sun Valley. I bought it on Ebay at a very reasonable price-sight unseen- and am very pleased with my purchase. Having a corner section this makes it mor appealing. My investment has tripled in a year. My husband and I are talking about putting up a dome house as the winds are so great up there. Wanting to be self sufficient we plan on having potable water and a generator. At this time the only thing that is required by the county is a septic tank. The landscape is very flat but when we saw the wild cattle, the wonderful views and rocks we fell in love and yes it is a lot cooler up there compared to down here in the valley. The history is pretty exciting with a part of route 66 running along Shari road. Hope to see all you new neighbor's up there in the future.

The county Requires First a Septic System, Second 55 Gallons of water on Site (Can Be 55 one Gallon jugs) then you can get your permit for Electrical connection to APS if they are close enough.
If not go Solar/Wind like a friend of mine has (APS wanted $85,000 for 2 miles of wire and poles) can put in nice system and no bills for that. Wind blows about 35 -45 for about 9 months of year, seldom less than 15 which is great for wind charger.

[Hammerhead46]

Linda Vee wrote:

I own 4 lots in Rancho Rancheros and it is pretty awesome up there.
We bought them very early on and are relatively close to the utilities and paved roads
We are hoping also to build in a few years.
But there is also a wash running thru that area and some of that land is so far off the beaten path it may be difficult to get too.
So do your due diligence I say.
I saw a 1.25 lot go for $12,000 in a live Phoenix auction about a year ago.
BTW it can get cold and snowy in the area, but usually not brutally so

Where were you born?
I live in Sun Valley and have for 15 years,I have seen -15°F without a wind chill added and I would call that BRUTAL when the summer temps here get to 110°F!
I have seen it do that for a week straight 24 hours a day with Flagstaff at 35°+ to 40°+F at the same time due to a temperature inversion over us, and Flagstaff is 2000' higher!

[Hammerhead46]

CDee wrote:

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What picture showed a McDonald's at Sun Valley? I've never seen one there. The closest McDonald's is in Holbrook.

There are 4 bossiness in Sun Valley, Ophillias Knife City Outlet, Hamiltons Gas and Store, and The Livestock Auction barn, on the south side of I40 and Root 66 RV park and the Post Office Fire Station (Not a Business in the real sense of the word) on the N. side of I40
I live here and there ain't no stinkin McDonalds! LOL

[Hammerhead46]

Bonnie R wrote:

I have further researched and Navajo county assures me that there is water in Rancho. I have 2 1/2 acres for sale up there. We can't use the land and are anxious to sell. With the casino going in and the town of Williams building a huge theme park this land will be very valuable in the next year. Asking $10,000 with all fee's paid. Taxes are up to date at $14.00 per year.

Williams is 150 - 160 Miles WEST of Sun Valley, AZ so how is that theme park there going to help us that live in Sun Valley right now?
Or are you trying to pull a con job to sell your land?
and the Casino is at least 50 miles away to the east and 110 miles if it goes in at Gallup NM so how will that help those of us living in Sun Valley now? or is tat a con job to sell your land also?

[Frank]

THANK YOU HAMMERHEAD46 I was given a line of BULL when I bought my land and NOW I have a piece of the desert SOMEWHERE, nothing is staked ploted or anything else and the county says "It's there but you can't get to it" but I still pay the taxes--MAYBE someday I will be able to find my land and enjoy it--

[LindaVee]

Hammerhead46
I don't know why this site shows me in Indiana. I live in Tempe and go to Holbrook quite often. I do have friends who live there.
So yes I do have a clue what is going on in Sun Valley. We leave the Phoenix valley and go up there when it's 110 down here.
I am originally from Chicago so I know what brutal really is and compared to the Midwest, the climate is moderate and the sun is always warm.
But yes, the water is not good on that side of the river and I did say there are areas you will probably never get to at least for several decades as well as a wash running threw some of the lots.
But I bought up by the front roads where their are utilities.
So I agree with a lot of what you say, and that is pretty much nothing more than grazing land right now. But hey, so was the very spot my house is in right now.
And anyone can look on line what the average temps are for the area.
Of course every area of the globe has it's extremes at times.

But I have met others like you in that town who have the suspicious small town mentality.
Some of you are very tight knit and just don't want strangers or progress up there.
You'd have to be blind not to see that it is so obvious.

I think you protest too much.
Get used to it. You can't keep that place a vacuum forever the way this state is growing.
BTW
If it sucks so badly, then why are you living there?
LMAO

[Bonnie R]

I haven't looked at this site in quite sometime. Just checking back in to see what has been happening.
Ho none of my comments are con jobs and I resent having that implication thrown at me.
I got this information from the Holbrook Museum Curator, if you know what that word means.
I am not about to sell but am planning on building up there very soon. Like others, I don't really know where my property is. I have the plat and when going to the county office I received the same welcome of "go find it if you can". I will have 2 houses put on the property. Green houses so as not to effect the environment. They don't want trash up there and neither do I. Windmill, generator and solar energy are the only way to go up there in the hill. I have high land so no worry about the wash or rain runoff.

Hammerhead46 wrote:

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Williams is 150 - 160 Miles WEST of Sun Valley, AZ so how is that theme park there going to help us that live in Sun Valley right now?
Or are you trying to pull a con job to sell your land?
and the Casino is at least 50 miles away to the east and 110 miles if it goes in at Gallup NM so how will that help those of us living in Sun Valley now? or is tat a con job to sell your land also?

[Pete Kosednar]

netlady wrote:

Read this!
http://www.conchorealestate.com/2007/02/sunco...

That story link has moved to here: http://conchorealestate.blogspot.com/2007/11/...

[The Desert Botanist]

netlady wrote:

Hey, Bonnie R Cave Creek
I don't know what's going on but a lot of others say the water is exellent and the wells don't have to be overly deep at 200 ft - 250 ft.
Would be nice to get the right story re the SV Rancheros.

Hi, I have owned land here for 7 years now. My land sits close to the Rio Puerco River on the South side of the highway in Sun Valley, AZ. As far as water quality is concerned YOU NEED TO LOOK INTO THIS!--

The 1979 Church Rock Uranium Tails Spill. This accident released the second largest amount of radiation into the environment. The tailings pond spill was released into the Rio Puerco River in New Mexico and flowed downstream into Arizona. The Church Rock spill is second only to the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown.

The water table along the Rio Puerco River in North Eastern AZ is the most troubled watershed in the state (FACT!) This is something THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW! DO YOUR RESEARCH!

I plan to always keep my land and pass it down to my childern, but it is just for camping on as far as I am concerned. One should never drill for water in this area.