How buyers and sellers can negotiate in a more balanced Durango market: pricing, concessions, buydowns, inspections and contingencies.
What buyers should look for in hunting and recreational property around Durango, Bayfield, Mancos, Cortez and Pagosa Springs.
What a conservation easement restricts, what it doesn’t, and why multi-generational ranch families around Durango and Cortez use them.
In town versus rural Southwest Colorado: what it’s really like to live in Durango versus the Animas Valley, Florida Mesa, Bayfield, Hesperus and beyond.
What a private well inspection is, what buyers should investigate, and how sellers can prepare in Durango and La Plata County.
A short video guide to septic inspections, county regulations and what to check before you go under contract on a home with septic in La Plata County.
Twenty-six miles of gravel. That’s what the Forest Lakes Metropolitan District maintains inside this subdivision, and if you understand what that one number implies, you understand most of what it’s like to live here (Forest Lakes Metropolitan District). Gravel means dust in August and washboard in October and a grader that comes when it comes.
The elk show up first. Late October, early morning, and there’s a herd standing in the fairway below Highpoint like they pay dues. Somebody’s scraping frost off a Subaru in the parking lot. The Hermosa Cliffs are catching the first light and going that orange they only go for about twenty minutes. Then the sun
In Colorado, owning the ground does not mean owning the water under it. Most wells on parcels under 35 acres are permitted for household use only, which means water inside the home and nothing outside it. Here is how well permits, water rights, and ditch shares actually work on Southwest Colorado land.
Ask someone what it’s like to live in Durango and they’ll usually start describing the mountains. Fair enough. But the mountains are the backdrop. The thing that actually defines life here is the rhythm of the year, the way the seasons and the events stack up into something that feels less like a town calendar
