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That may actually be a good price for 5 acres in the prime wine growing region. Often times homes may be sold and quickly demolished for building new homes by buyers in parts of prime Bay Area CA. We see this happening.
I'd want to know the output of the well before I proceeded any further. And I wonder how long that pool was empty. The paint on the retaining wall is very worn. Other than the view I don't find the land all that thrilling. I'd keep looking but then I'm more of a valley/flat land person than a hill-topper. Odd priorities - who puts a pool on an undeveloped piece of land all by itself? How has it been maintained? I agree with the OP that someone ran out of money.
I do know the neighborhood, specifically Chalk Hill Road, by the way. Not for me. But someone will be taken by the location and the view. I'll try to remember to follow it and see what the closing price is. It may take awhile.
Oh, and those gates . . . readily available at the local fencing supplier. I was expecting custom wrought-iron gates with stone pillars or something equally impressive. Not ordinary farm gates.
I think it looks like there has been a fire. They demoed the house and cleaned it up but there's lots of blackened trees around. The paved driveway shape indicates buildings that are no longer there. They decided to sell it as is so the buyer could put in their own house.
On edit... here's an interesting thing.... the current google earth 3D rendering still has the house there, and it does look like there was a fire. The flat image of the ground looks like it is after the fire, but the 3D renderings of the buildings and the trees are still there. Interesting glitch of things updating at different times. (updated again with screencapture before google maps updates again and it's lost)
I think it looks like there has been a fire. They demoed the house and cleaned it up but there's lots of blackened trees around. The paved driveway shape indicates buildings that are no longer there. They decided to sell it as is so the buyer could put in their own house.
On edit... here's an interesting thing.... the current google earth 3D rendering still has the house there, and it does look like there was a fire. The flat image of the ground looks like it is after the fire, but the 3D renderings of the buildings and the trees are still there. Interesting glitch of things updating at different times. (updated again with screencapture before google maps updates again and it's lost)
Great sleuthing! Thank you! Now of course I can see it on the OG photos. The scorched earth/ashen look of the soil, the old footprints of the former structures and the grubby concrete decking around the pool. Makes perfect sense.
My uncle lost his house in the Cedar Fire in Julian (San Diego County) in 2003. He did the same thing and sold the cleaned-up barren land. He was in his 80's at the time and wasn't going to undertake a rebuild.
Does that look like a bison in the adjacent field next to the driveway on the current listing photos? Or am I seeing things?
Great sleuthing! Thank you! Now of course I can see it on the OG photos. The scorched earth/ashen look of the soil, the old footprints of the former structures and the grubby concrete decking around the pool. Makes perfect sense.
My uncle lost his house in the Cedar Fire in Julian (San Diego County) in 2003. He did the same thing and sold the cleaned-up barren land. He was in his 80's at the time and wasn't going to undertake a rebuild.
Yeah - particularly if you know you want to move. Let someone else put in the house they want.
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Does that look like a bison in the adjacent field next to the driveway on the current listing photos? Or am I seeing things?
No it's a bison .... not altogether uncommon... My neighbor had them, until recently.
^^^I was an agribusiness major so not a sensitive little flower. But probably wise to stay out of the nitty gritty, so to speak. Opens up way too many directions for this conversation to go!
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.... not altogether uncommon... My neighbor had them, until recently.
