Benson or Sierra Vista?

[---Syndicate---]

Originally Posted by Salpointe59

Sierra Vista actually has houses available now. For some reason the population is actually thinning out. However I expect it to begin growing as the new President brings back the entire 11th Signal Brigade. I live in Town and Country and there are several housed avalible but I don't know your price range.

We're approved for the VA maximum but I think we're comfortable with anything less than 275k so that we're still able to contribute to our retirement accounts and not be house poor. Is the military pretty stretched out over the city or do they generally rent/buy in the same area?

[royalabran]

Hi Syndicate,


My 2 cents for what it's worth.
I'm retired Army, moved 13 times, have bought and sold 4 times.


SV and surrounding area was fun to shop for housing, very much was a buyers market when I was looking.


Moved to Sierra Vista in 2012 and ended up leaving in 2013. Last duty station was Ft Huachuca, I loved the area and desert, my wife - not so much, though now she will let me move back if we are a near a big city such as Tucson.


If you are looking in Sierra Vista I recommend Sonny Lee (as a Realtor), exceptional in all aspects of customer care, nice person, nice small business and staff, expert on the area and he will put the needs of your family way way above any effort to sell you on anything
I was in the market in 2011-2012 in SV and for weeks I compiled long lists of properties to check out, I put money down twice , backed out and ended up renting and again Sonny was great .


Missing the desert -- currently living in Alaska

[---Syndicate---]

Originally Posted by royalabran

Hi Syndicate,


My 2 cents for what it's worth.
I'm retired Army, moved 13 times, have bought and sold 4 times.


SV and surrounding area was fun to shop for housing, very much was a buyers market when I was looking.


Moved to Sierra Vista in 2012 and ended up leaving in 2013. Last duty station was Ft Huachuca, I loved the area and desert, my wife - not so much, though now she will let me move back if we are a near a big city such as Tucson.


If you are looking in Sierra Vista I recommend Sonny Lee (as a Realtor), exceptional in all aspects of customer care, nice person, nice small business and staff, expert on the area and he will put the needs of your family way way above any effort to sell you on anything
I was in the market in 2011-2012 in SV and for weeks I compiled long lists of properties to check out, I put money down twice , backed out and ended up renting and again Sonny was great .


Missing the desert -- currently living in Alaska

Thanks for the info, Sonny is one of the people I was keying in on for realtors I'd like to work with. According to one of the buyers trends documents I saw it still very much seems to be a Buyer's market for anything north of 200K so I'm hoping that is actually true. Thanks again!

[RevelationWriter]

Originally Posted by LordBalfor

Sierra Vista WILL give you far more choices in regards to housing. Having aid that. SV to Wilcox or SV to Tucson (eventually) would be a really LONG commute so you may indeed want to look at Benson/ Eventually (supposedly) the new developments on highway 90 south of Benson proper will increase the housing supply. It keeps getting pushed back though so I'm not sure when it will actually happen (if at all).

Ken

Hi LordBalfor, we came up 90 yesterday
and now there is a couple of big yellow signs stating "Cottonwood Expansion".

Do you think this is the new development starting soon???? Thanks

And by the way hope your okay with the fire!

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by RevelationWriter

Hi LordBalfor, we came up 90 yesterday
and now there is a couple of big yellow signs stating "Cottonwood Expansion".

Do you think this is the new development starting soon???? Thanks

And by the way hope your okay with the fire!

I honestly don't know when the new development will start. I do think it WILL happen, just not sure WHEN.

Yeah, at least at the moment it looks the fire is going to pass south of us.

Ken

[RevelationWriter]

We went to Whetstone and there is a pretty New Entrance to the side of there
with signs and pamphlets called "Phase 1 & 2" started 40 of 170 lots already
of Cottonwood Expansion available for building 35K for a one acre lot.