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Park your car.Within five or six blocks you can walk to the doctor, dentist, restaurants, small super market, Loaf & Jug, Subway, Mexican and Chinese Restaurants, Elks Club, pharmacy, Dollar Store, clothing store, banks, library, museum, liquor store, car repairs and services, gas stations, furniture stores, beauty shop, city hall, and post office.Within a mile are elementary and middle schools, nursing home with extended care, theatre, German restaurant, fruit stand in summer, Presbytarian, Baptist, Catholic, Christian,Church of Christ, Lutheran and penecostal churches, car wash and motel. Other churches and high school are on outskirts of town.Our area averages 340 days of sunshine a year. Most days are full sunshine and some days are partial sunshine.Actually, we'd like more rain right now.We also have the four seasons.When it does snow, it usually melts the next day. At the sales price of $35,000, we would refund $3,000 so new owner could put a fresh coat of paint on the house and install two new garage doors. You would be buying a well-built and well insulated home with comparatively low heating costs. A new forced air furnace was installed several years ago and a new roof on the house about 5 years ago. A new Berber type rug was installed two years ago and is still in good shape.Bathroom enclosure was installed above bathtub at the same time. There isextra storage at the end of the hall and also extra pantry and utility shelves are next to the kitchen.The kitchen has room for eating.There is a hookup for washer in kitchen and hookup for dryer in newly closed-in back porch. An unfinished basement holds the furnace and waterheater. The largest bedroom has a deep closet, and the small bedroom a small closet. A small coatcloset is in the living room. The home was crafted in 1949 for a mother and son.He had a bicycle shop in the back of the house that is now the two-car garage.There is a partition and electricity in the garage.Behind the new house to the south you see in the picture, is a fenced area for a body shop. Rocky Ford has a population close to 5,000.We have a theatre that is run by the community with new films every weekend.Our nine hole golf course is at the end of Main Street at Play Park Hill with no reservation for tee time (unless there is one of several yearly tournaments going on)with a swimming pool and tennis courts close by.The regional medical center is 25 minutes away in La Junta.We have an excellent ambulance service, police and fire department.A medical clinic is about 4 blocks from the house with several doctors in practice.We also have two dentists in Rocky Ford. A Super Walmart is 8 miles east.You can enjoy community concerts just 15 miles away and audit or take classes at Otero Junior College. Pueblo, Colorado, with a larger population is 50 miles to the west; Colorado Springs 90 miles northwest and Denver 175 miles northwest.Sell yourhome for many dollars and invest in a smaller home that is easier to maintain with a lower cost of living. Put money in the bank. While the property is one of four houses facing west on the street, it is zoned commercial. So, this property could also be an office one block off Hwy 50 and 1 block from Main Street.
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