Need Help Moving to Bend area, Oregon.

[anilov6044]

Originally Posted by Larry Caldwell

That's pretty low ball for water frontage acreage with a barn and fences. On the east side of the mountains you can winter your hay outside, but on the west side the rain will ruin it, and the horses will need some kind of shelter, so a barn is pretty much required. Properties like that are rare, so the owner can charge whatever they want. Horse owners tend to be pretty upscale.

On the east side of the Cascades near Bend you need to be looking for property along the Deschutes River, Crooked River, or tributaries.

Thank you for your response

[oregonwoodsmoke]

There is a small issue with horse property located on water. It is illegal to have animal runoff flowing into any body of water. The law can be worked with, but you can't just plop down a barn and corrals right next to water.

I know of some nice horse farms on the Willamette, but you aren't getting into one of those for $2000 a month.

There might be something in La Pine with an old mobile home, suitable for horses and within a couple of miles of the Deschutes River. Probably no barn, though.

I know where there is a 2,000 sq ft frame built house, 5 acres, large RV barn that could be converted to horses, deer fenced fruit orchard right on the Deschutes. Or, almost on the Deschutes. It has about 50 feet of National Grassland between it and the Deschutes. But that is almost river frontage. Nobody can get between you and the river. $300,000. The trick is that the Deschutes is 600 feet down below a steep cliff.

That house is in Crooked River Ranch and there might be something else for sale there that is also suitable for horses. Lots of the properties are "river frontage" with the same conditions. The Deschutes and the Crooked River are 600 feet down in steep canyons.

By the way, I've had horses in Central Oregon and no, you can not store your very expensive hay outdoors.