Another Road Trip

We took a 4 day weekend and drove over to Idaho AGAIN to view houses. 

The first one was in Dixie, way out in the middle of absolutely nowhere. 

The house was at the end of the road, 3 miles from Dixie, 2.5 hours from the next closest town of Elk City & another 2.5 hours to the closest grocery store in Grangeville.

This is the Black Diamond Lodge

Sleeps 15, on 7.5 acres in the heart of the mountains.

Its got so much going for it but its not livable all year and there's nowhere for the horses.

There could be pens built but my horses are pasture ornaments, not ridable to the trip over would stress them out.

This is the 4 unit apartments, each one has its own bedroom & bathroom, the two end units each have small kitchenettes. Each room comes fully furnished.

This is the Kitchen building

Inside its got the kitchen, a small bathroom & seating area. It comes fully furnished with all the appliances you could ever need.

From the porch of the owners residence, you can target shoot on your very own range

Inside owners house

This is the hot tub house, its got 4 large screened windows and the floor tilts to one side and the tub doesn't work but its got potential

We loved this place as a full time residence for us but I'm not too happy with the 5 hours to a grocery store, 8 to a costco. The drive between Grangeville & Elk City was gorgeous, along a river, but the last half of the drive is long and no river.

The next day we saw a house along the way that was in a beautiful location, 5 fenced acres of gently rolling pastures. The house had been purchased in August 2019 for $199,000 and then totally remodeled probably from the studs out. Everything brand new. But the house was too small, there was no garage, shop or barn & they're asking $425,000

So we continued on to this house in an airport neighborhood. 

5 acres, 3 of it fenced. Big 2700 SF house and a 44x44 sf airplane hanger that would make an amazing garage & shop for Lan. The fence was nice and would definitely keep the dogs in. 

This is the view from the road

This is the view from the runway.

I don't know when this photo was taken but there is no green grass now, its just rocks & weeds.

This airplane doesn't even belong to the owners

The hanger opens like this but that's a man door on it. Inside has concrete floor, insulated & heated. Its large enough to park 8 cars easily if needed, its got a projection tv & screen on the wall & heavy duty shelving along the walls

There are 2 acres of land on this side of the fence that can't have anything on them. You can drive to your hanger with your car but you can't park your car outside. 

You're buying this as a runway & if you don't fly then you're wasting money.

The have CCRs & an HOA of $230 per year that goes up 3% every year and they can make you pay for improvements to the roads & runway.

Plus only 2 horses 'behind' house but that would be in the hot, sunny, no shade place.

The house was nice enough and big inside.

The kitchen hadn't ever been updated but it was still OK and had tons of storage.

None of the windows down there open & the shades were up so it was pretty dang hot inside. 

The deck stops right outside the slider, 

it should have been extended all the way down & around & awnings installed.

This is the downstairs family room I guess, it was a bit cooler but not much. That's a bar, which we would have to remove and make into something else, maybe a closet?

The master bedroom had regular closets & a bathroom where they boasted a jetted tub but the jets were broken & popped out & the tiles around it were broken & probably had rot underneath.

This house is totally livable and move in ready but not for us. I'm pretty spoiled with my quartz kitchen countertops, hardwood floors and Lan enjoys his garage, shop & equipment shed and we both enjoy our covered arena & barn.

There were several other houses we were supposed to view but they all went Pending or our realtor couldn't get ahold of the owners to view. 

On the way to Idaho the sky was clear and blue, on the way home the smoke from the Oregon & California fires came in & from CDA west, we couldn't see more than a half mile away. At Snoqualmie Summit, we couldn't see the lake nor the ski lifts & both of us felt like puking. You could smell the campfire smell & those fires were hundreds of miles away.