Own an established Restaurant & a Historical bldg with a prime location in Downtown Silver City, NM. Adobe Springs has been a turnkey restaurant established for over 30 years+ more. MLS#40595
Text RBKSNTQ to 52187 Call Marisa Villegas
$228,500 VIEWS OF THE MOUNTAINS
Spacious 4 br, 2 ba home with a bonus office/hobby room. Enjoy the beautiful views of the mountains & the Mimbres Valley from the covered front deck. Lrg open kitchen w/brkfst bar & more. MLS# 40355
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Contemporary style home located in Indian Hills has it all. It features 2567 s.f., 3br, 2 baths, two living
and next to HMS Medical services, bldg has a lot of security measures in place. Laminate flrs in main areas. Lrg "reception" area w/4 separate offices, 2 baths & more. MLS#40582 Text RBKSFCT to 52187 Call Tracy Bauer
Eco-conscious living w/modern conveniences on 3.2 acres. 2br/1ba thoughtfully constructed residence incl. a sunrm that serves as both a growing space & passive solar heating source, & more. MLS#40501 Text RBKQVZL to 52187 Call Patrick Hoskins $223,000
Comfortable, well maintained 3br, 2ba, conveniently located home. Refinished bathrooms and new flooring throughout the home incl. porcelain tile in the living areas, new decked porch& more. MLS#40578
Text RBKSCPC to 52187 Albert Sandoval
160 ACRES IN THE VALLEY
Secluded, Off-Grid living w/unsurpassed privacy on this parcel. All parcels can boast complete privacy from other structures. All parcel owners share the benefit of the ranch Headqrtrs bldg, w/caretaker. Too much to list. MLS#40486 Text RBKQMPT to 52187
$364,900
This 3 br 2 ba Pueblo-style home is sized for simplicity, intertwined with modern comfort. Inviting warmth of a gas fired flame of the kiva style fplc, creating your cozy retreat in the heart of Silver City, NM. MLS#40571 Text RBKRZKC to 52187 CONVENIENT LOCATION
$560,000
CUSTOM HOME
In a park-like setting features 3 br, 2.5 ba, office, two living areas, dining rm & big open kit w/island & brkfst bar. Great split flrpln w/french doors leading to patio from guest br & primary br. & more. MLS#40489 Text RBKQSGQ to 52187
$425,000
COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
Downtown Historic Silver City - a landmark western tourism/gallery destination, adjacent to bike shop, restaurants & art galleries. Heavy walking traffic especially on weekends High visibility corner and accessibility. MLS#40363 Text RBKMYKT to 52187
CHARMING MID-CENTURY STYLE GEM
Overlooking the town of Silver City, with an amazing amount of privacy. This 5 br, 3 ba home is impeccably designed & thoughtfully updated. Light-filled rooms w/mtn views, custom stone fplcs & so much more. MLS#40493 Text RBKQMPV to 52187
$350,000
COWBOY'S DREAM
Remodeled farm house on 9+ acres w/250' X 160' roping arena & horse pens. Tons of privacy! Enjoy the views of the Cottonwoods along the Gila River from the back porch! Several outblgs & more. MLS#40420 Text RBKPJLR to 52187
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End of Mineral Creek Rd, bordering Gila National Forest unique property has all the water you've dreamed of. Once in a lifetime opportunity to own a property with this much water in the great southwest.
MLS#40279 Text RBKHMCJ to 52187
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RENOVATING AN OLD HOUSE? YOU’LL NEED A GOOD CHECKLIST
By Tim Carter
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the home three years before, and Dr. Larsen and his wife trusted me. Little did they know, I had no clue how to build the three simple walls needed for the small new bathroom.
o you want to build a new wall inside your home?
Perhaps you're trying to create a new small space for a home office or hobby room, or maybe you have a bigger appetite and are transforming a dank basement into a finished living space. But you have no idea where to start. I've been there. I've experienced your anxiety.
ot too long ago, I was driving to get an estimate to install a new muffler on my truck. It was just after sunrise and a large sewer project forced me to detour across a street I’d never been on before. As luck would have it, I happened upon an old Victorian house that had seen far better days just as the earlymorning sun was giving her a tender morning kiss. It brought back vivid memories of the first old house I ever bought and renovated.
I survived with the help of a few phone calls to my boss. It was a humbling experience as I discovered you don't know what
You can't always do this in an existing home, especially if the ceilings in the room are finished with drywall or plaster. As you tilt the wall up, it binds against the ceiling. If you're challenged by a finished ceiling, you'll most likely have to install your top and bottom plates, making sure the plates are
Building a new interior wall in an existing house can be much different from doing it on a new home job site. When we carpenters build a wall for a new home, we typically build it flat on the floor.
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If I had known then what I know now after all these years of working in old homes for paying customers, I don’t know if I would have bought it. To be sure, visions of grandeur were dancing in my head – and in my new bride’s as well – much as they did in Mr. Blandings’ head in the old Cary Grant movie.
Every now and then it's interesting to go back in time. I clearly remember having to build my first partition wall inside a house. I was a soaking wet-behind-theears carpenter working for a small remodeling company. One of my college professors, Dr. Larsen, had asked me to install a half bathroom in his home. I had no idea what to do, so I told him that my boss could do the job.
It’s also important that the house’s framing, or bones, are in great shape with no cracks, wood rot or insect damage. The carpenters of old knew how to keep wood in great shape, and most made prudent use of simple tar paper to keep the structure dry for decades.
you don't know. Keep in mind this was decades before the Internet and YouTube. You have no idea what an advantage you now have when you have to educate yourself about how to repair and build things around your home. Count your blessings!
system. Many very old houses simply don’t have the supply and return air registers in the correct locations. My first house had all the supply vents located on the inside of the house.
plumb in the same plane. You'll then cut each wall stud to fit snugly between the plates and toenail them in place. Drill angled pilot holes in the ends of the wall studs for the nails. Use no less than 3-inch-long 16d sinker nails to connect the wall studs to the plates.
Once the simple plans were drawn and the contract signed, I was sent to my professor's house to start the job. I had painted the outside of
I had all sorts of support from my father-in-law, who, although he was a medical doctor, had a passion for real estate investing. But what I lacked was a comprehensive checklist that would have helped me identify possible trouble spots and definite dealbreakers.
Here are a few things that you should think about if you’re about to go all-in on an old house as I did back on that warm spring day:
First and foremost, make sure the house has a great foundation. Just recently, my son was thinking of buying an old house and he sent me a photo of a diagonal crack extending from the corner of a basement window down to the floor. The house was almost 100 years old. The crack was less than 1/16 inch in width, there was no evidence of water seepage and the concrete was not offset.
What I lacked was a comprehensive checklist that would have helped me identify possible trouble spots and definite dealbreakers.
Building a new interior wall in an existing house can be much different from doing it on a new home job site. When we carpenters build a wall for a new home, we typically build it flat on the floor. Once all the studs are nailed to the bottom and top plates, we tilt the wall up and secure it so it doesn't fall over.
Next, carefully assess the mechanical systems. The presence of cast-iron plumbing stacks needn’t worry you, especially if you can see the cast letters XH on the pipe. These letters indicate that pipe is extra heavy and might last for hundreds of years so long as the previous homeowners didn’t put liquid drain cleaners down the pipes.
If you do see cast-iron plumbing vertical pipes, it almost certainly means you’ll have smaller horizontal galvanized pipes that drain sinks, showers and possibly tubs. These pipes will almost always be in poor shape and require replacement.
Don’t underestimate the cost to retrofit your heating and cooling
If there is no ceiling, you can tilt the wall up so long as you orient the wall in the same direction as the floor joists above. You simply make sure the top of the wall rises up in between two parallel floor joists. Once the wall is vertical, you can then slide it into position under
Decades ago HVAC pros discovered it’s best to flood exterior walls with either heated air in the winter and cool air in the summer. That means the return air registers must be across the room on inside walls. I doubt you’ll see this setup on a house built in 1905! If the house was built long before 1967, you can be sure it’s got lead paint both inside and outside. You don’t have to get rid of it, but you most definitely need to understand how to work with it so you don’t get poisoned or poison a loved one. Even scraping exterior lead paint is an issue, as you can contaminate soil you may use for a vegetable garden. Never ever sand lead paint.
Realize that you can match both interior and exterior wood trim if you’ve got a big budget. Oldfashioned lumberyards in your area might have their own mill, or they may know of a local one that can cut new knives that will create matching profiles for all the fancy woodwork inside or outside your home.
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WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF SILVER CITY This wonderful 64.5 acres offers 360 degree views of the mountains to the north, all the way to the Florida’s and Deming, as well a over the top look at Silver City proper. Build your showcase home nearly anyplace on the property. Keep all your favorite pets from cats to horses. It’s also blessed with a seasonal creek that will run water in the monsoon season. This property is unusual
15 RENTAL UNITS TOTAL this includes 7 stand alone units, as well as 4 duplex units. All units have either wood stoves, or fplcs, microwaves & apart. refrigerator Stand alone units w/full kitchens. Included in the sale is the Lodge, an event center w/lrg kitchen inside. Amphitheater & stage for events. Main office offers 2 living areas, one w/a kitchen & bath up stairs, a lrg kitchen downstairs. Small meeting room below the Lodge. Too much to list, please call for info & a showing. Broker owned property. MLS# 37900 Text RBGHHQM to 52187
Beautiful home in a beautiful spot. Remote, private, quiet & dark night skies! Home sits at the end of LS Mesa looking o into Bear Creek. The Mogollon Mountains create the northern backdrop. 59.9 acres of land w/pinon, & juniper trees. O grid solar home w/bkup propane generator. 2BR, 2BA w/open flrpln & heated w/radiant heat & more. MLS# 39587 $698,000 Text RBJPJTH to 52187 Farm Land along the San Francisco River just South of Glenwood, NM Beautiful 150 acres of land with 109 acres of water rights, fenced into pastures to rotate stock or separate fields to farm. Fields planted in Orchard Grass, Fescue, & Red Clover mix. Barn, Shop & Triplex home, two e iciency type apartments. Located just o Hwy 180. MLS# 37246 $1,900,000 Text RBFHHKG to 52187
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acres. Close to all the activities yet on a quiet road. The gravel drive way takes you home where the feel of country living welcomes you. Decorative windmill front yard, & the wooden fence frame the property. Home has a lrg family rm for family & friends to gather as well as a cozy living rm. & more. MLS# 40343 $375,000 Text RBKKNPX to 52187
Beautiful spot to build your dream home. Septic, well, elec, solar & a very nice shop w/o ice already in place. Fruit trees planted & garden area set. All ready for you to build the home you desire on this 10 acre lot. Located just outside Cli in Mogollon Vista Subdivision! County Road to the property and a shared wetland area in the subdivision. MLS# 40381 $280,000 Text RBKNNFW to 52187
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ESSENTIAL STEPS TO TAKE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR
Embarking on the journey to homeownership for the first time is both exciting and filled with important decisions. As the year draws to a close, there’s no better time to lay the groundwork for your dream of owning a home. This comprehensive guide is designed to empower first-time homebuyers with a clear roadmap, helping you navigate the process and make informed choices before the calendar turns. By following these steps, you’ll be well on your way to turning the key to your very own front door.
ASSESS YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH
Before diving into the homebuying process, take a close look at your financial situation. Calculate your budget, including your monthly income, expenses, and potential mortgage payments. Obtain a copy of your credit report and work on improving your credit score if needed, as a strong credit history can positively impact your loan terms.
DETERMINE YOUR PRICE RANGE
Based on your financial assessment, determine a realistic price range for your prospective home. Use online mortgage calculators to estimate monthly payments and factor in additional costs like property taxes, insurance, and maintenance. This will help you set expectations and narrow down your search.
SAVE FOR A DOWN PAYMENT AND CLOSING COSTS
Start saving for a down payment, which is typically a percentage of the home’s purchase price. Research various loan programs that cater to first-time homebuyers, as they often offer lower down payment options. Additionally, set aside funds for closing costs, which can include appraisal fees, title insurance, and attorney fees.
GET PRE-APPROVED FOR A MORTGAGE
Connect with a reputable mortgage lender and get pre-approved for a mortgage. Pre-approval not only strengthens your bargaining position but also gives you a clear understanding of how much you can afford. This step streamlines your home search and positions you as a serious buyer.
PRIORITIZE YOUR NEEDS AND WANTS
Create a list of your must-haves and nice-to-haves in a home. Consider factors like location, number of bedrooms, proximity to schools or work, and amenities. Having a clear vision will help you focus your search and make more informed decisions.
ENGAGE A REAL ESTATE AGENT
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Becoming a first-time homebuyer is a significant milestone that requires careful planning and preparation. Remember that patience, research, and a strong support system, including a skilled real estate agent and lender, will pave the way for a smooth transition into homeownership. As you embark on this exciting journey, rest assured that your dedication and informed decisions will lead you to the doorstep of your new home.
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