socorro NM (Magdalena: real estate, rentals, condos)

[GregW]

College town - suprise, suprise that rents would be higher than elsewhere - so is demand.
Good luck on admission

[ducksburg]

Originally Posted by GregW

College town - suprise, suprise that rents would be higher than elsewhere - so is demand.
Good luck on admission

ahh,that sounds terrible. Maybe I have to consider giving up New mexico Tech for that reason. I used to think that the enrollment of NMT is too small to give rise to the local rent significantly.
What's the normal rent rate per year in socorro?
What if I live somewhere a little far from the campus and drive?

Thank you,GregW!

[nmretire]

oooooeeee....Green chile burger....I will most certainly try that
Love green chile's...It's been a long time since I had fresh ones


I will post when I get back from my visit. 2 more weeks and I fly out of this ugly dirty city.

Hooooooray

[nmretire]

ducksburg....If you get accepted and I get a big enough house I'll rent out a room to you...That is if you want to rent from an ole lady with small dog.


HA!

[ducksburg]

Originally Posted by nmretire

ducksburg....If you get accepted and I get a big enough house I'll rent out a room to you...That is if you want to rent from an ole lady with small dog.


HA!

Why not?ahh,it sounds great if you charge me reasonably.
I love ladies and I like dogs.

[nmretire]

sounds ok...but just so that you know.......I have a cane!

I just hope I can find a place when I get there in 2 weeks. I want to get this show on the road. I'm tired of working and it's time to do what I want, when I want.

[ducksburg]

so...what do you want to do ?

[paleo99]

I lived in Socorro for the better part of five years, and can say that rents are definitely BELOW AVERAGE even for a college town. You could probably get a trailer for 250-300/month if your into that, or get a house in the better areas anywhere from 150-300k. It really depends how close you want to be to Tech, and even then the rents for the apartments aren't bad at all..400-600/month for some average apartments across the street from campus.

As far as geology goes, the Department there is superb, and I would recommend it to anybody who would like to get a solid geological education. Their teachers are pretty competent at teaching, not just research..more than what can be said about some departments. It's a quirky little college filled with intelligent people, and definitely NOT your typical university in many ways.

[ducksburg]

thank you for information about socorro,paleo99.
I will be able to pay the rent if I attend I guess.
by the way,Tech's small size is what I want,but the problem is that I would like to be major in Electrical Engineering instead of geology.I don't want to stay away from mainstream,lol.

[GregW]

I suspected Geology to be an excellent topic. However, Ducksburg, you should consider that Geology and Mining (the school was the New Mexico School of Mines) are well covered. Geology and Mining are very dependant on electronic instrumentation to study geophysics (find the gold) and electrical engineering to power the mines (dig it up). I'll bet their EE department are also first rate.

I may just go back to school and complete the geology studies that were interrupted by arguing with a "learned professor" about Plate Tectonics in the early 1970's. I was right but also declared "persona non grata" in the department.

Good Luck and enjoy.

NMretire -

I like the idea of buying a house in town and renting rooms to students.