Places to live with horses (Reno, Carson City: real estate, houses, construction)

[mscalico]

We have horses and I just started checking into the Nevada area and I am wondering where the best places are to look that would be good for the horses and reasonably priced. We are retired, so jobs aren't an issue. We would like to be out on about 5 to 10 acres and about 20 minutes to shopping. It doesn't have to be major shopping malls, but a nice grocery store, Walmart and things like that.

[humboldtrat]

Check out Winnemucca or Elko. Plenty of open space and both towns have the shopping you want.

[garth]

I don't know what "reasonably priced" means. It can amount to different prices for different people. However, I would rcommend Douglas County. It's a wonderful place to live, although you can expect it to be more expensive than some of the more eastern towns like Winnemucca, Elko, Ely, Fallon, Wendover, etc.

Douglas County is a wonderful place. There's lots of horse property here. Residents take pride in trying to maintain the area's rural feel, although that can be a challange at times. Little by little the multi-thousand acre spreads are being parceled into 1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 acre residences.

If you're west of US395, perhaps along Foothill or either side of Hwy 88, you can take beautiful horse rides into the Sierra Nevada. If you're east of US395, much of the properties will back to BLM land. You can jsut ride out the back of your property into the Pinenut hills.

Douglas County also has the any of the shopping venues you would need on a regular basis. You will have grocery stores, Home Depot, Super WalMart, Trader Joes, etc. The grocery stores are in town and the other big box venues are placed at the north end of the county so they don't affect the open rural feel of the rest of the county. BTW, the county isn't that big, so the drive from something like Minden to WalMart is 10 minutes past open fields of cattle, horses, and alfalfa.

Douglas County would then provide for a 15 mintue drive into Carson City. Then, another 30 miles would get you into the southern part of Reno with a couple of bigger malls or other stores.

Click here for Town of Minden's website.

Click here for the Town of Gardnerville's website.

Click here for the Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce website.

If you want to research some real estate in Douglas County (Minden, Gardnerville, Genoa), here's a link to a local agency. I'm not recommeding them, nor am I not recommending them. It's just one of the local agencies.

Click here (broken link)

One last thing . . . Minden in Douglas County enjoys a good quality of life. The community is proud of its heritage, proud of its history, and takes pride in the development and planning for the community. It's a clean town where people are safe to walk the streets at any hour and greet their neighbors as they pass.

I will also provide two more links for you. One will take you directly to the Master Plan. The other is to the site for a new shopping plaza being built in town.

Click here for the Minden Gateway Center. It's currently under construction.

Click here for the Douglas County Master Plan

I'll also leave you with a few pictures:

Here's some of the best neighbors someone could have:



Here's a picture of the Carson Valley (Douglas County), which includes Minden and Gardnerville, from the top of Kingsbury Grade (Lake Tahoe):



Good luck with whatever decision you make.

[garth]

I got curious and ran a listing query for horse properties. Here's a few results from a query for houses in the Carson Valley. The following links are for a couple of hosues in the 5-10 acre range:

Click here

Click here for another

and another house

These were just a few from the query.

Now, here's a few from another query. I ran it in the 1-5 acre range for Douglas County:

Click here

and again

another one

Click again

This might be a nice one for the price - on 1.75 acres

This could be interesting for a less expensive home

This one has a loafing shed and hay barn for 2.5 tons of hay

This one looks interesting too

Anyway, there's a bunch more. I actually got 150 responses in the 1-5 acre range.

I hope this has helped a little. Overall, it looks like you can find a SFH (not manufactured) anywhere from the mid 200's all the way to multi-millions of dollars.

Again, good luck with your search.

[olecapt]

If I moved up north it would likely be to Douglas County. It is however reasonably expensive. You can do 5 or 10 acres and a house in Yerington for under 200K. That leaves you reasonably close to Reno. Pahrump can be done under $250K. And that leaves you less than an hour outside of Vegas.