planning to move to AZ

[enio45]

Thanks for the thoughts.....im in Phoenix now looking around with a relator...and yes i experienced the rain last nite....it came in fast!! Spent the day looking aroound Gilbert and Chandler area...a few nice customer homes in some new areas with a little over an acre of land. What area do u live in? Today we look up near cave creek area...getting the feel....will be here 2 weeks....maybe squeeze in a cruise nite or two....any around this time of the yr?

[budnate]

Ed roll out where Bruce is at and look around, nice area and my Aunt just moved into Anthem down the road from Bruce..looks like the people and stuff is sprawling that way..If I was looking I would head past Anthem about 20 more miles and buy a hunk of land and do it up if you can get water and power to it.

I dont think you can get what you want in the little towns they are doing you are probably on your own to by a old place and bulldoze or start from scratch. I didnt see anything with detached shops, pretty high end stuff but neatly done with lots of rules.

Bud.

[kenham]

If you're going to be in the state for two weeks you might take a trip up to Prescott (my town), everyone else is moving here so one more shouldn't hurt. Lots of nice big places in Williamson Valley on acreage for 600k to a mil plus. Temps are usually 20 degrees below Phoenix, mild winters but we have the seasons. Several car clubs and old geezers who like cars.
Ken

[Xplantdad]

Prescott is commanding $$$ from what I've seen...also lots of restrictions about building in Prescott proper...

Cave Creek is also a lot of $$$ with TONS of restrictions on what you can and cannot build.

Like Bud said, come out to where I live and check out the area...I live off 67th Ave. and Happy Valley (Northwest Peoria). Less than a mile from where I live are houses in the high 700,000's with more than an acre of land...some of them have 7 car attached garages and then 4 car detached garages with guest quarters..there's one with 8 attached garages

Housing prices in my neighborhood have gone up $125,000 in the past 2 years...

I will PM you my phone number. Feel free to call me anytime.

Bud, when are you coming back into town?

[Xplantdad]

As far as cruises...check here:

Phoenix area cruises

These occur every Saturday night...monsoons permitting of course!

[Stuart Adams]

Ed M, Az is great. Alot of hot rods, and of course BJ auction in Jan. Good luck. The Pavillions in the winter is wild.
Bruce, when my car gets done I will look ya up and come over to the Pavillions and maybe have a brew.

[Xplantdad]

Stuart...the beer is my treat! Do me a favor and bring that Steve Sandlin guy!

Are you going to SCR8 with Steve? I'll buy you guys beers there, too. Now that I think of it...I'm going to have to make an excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the people I that I owe beers!

This may cost me a bit more than expected! J/K...

[bilede]

There are lots of nice places around the phoenix area with an acre or so but there is no city these days that will let you do whatever you want as far as building "outbuildings". I have built in phoenix, glendale, scottsdale, tempe (where I live now), and even chino valley outside of prescott and they all have a ton of red tape to get around now. I couldn't get a detached garage approved in tempe and finally had to attach it with a carport to the house for them to let me build what I wanted and even then I had to go to the city council for approval and it took 10 months, for a simple garage that is nuts.. For a place like you describe it comes down to finding it available and in your price range. as bruce said, west valley is cheaper if you want to stay close in to the city otherwise Tonopah to the west, maricopa to the south, apache junction/florence to the east, new river area to the north are still reasonable for land big enough to have a nice detached garage.

Good luck!

[budnate]

april 10th for spring break..plan to have some fun!!!!

[Xplantdad]

Cool Bud...can't wait. I owe you lunch anyways...