Great Neighborhood Location With Loads Of Kids and Family Activities. Across Street From The Park This Is A Great Home Well Built Richmond Home. Loads Of Character and Clean Newer Carpeting. A Real Open Plan So No One Is Left Out! All Appliances AreIncluded. Walking trails and rec centers are close. Quiet cul de sac. Make a great deal here. 

Great Lock & GO Lifestyle in this community! Perfect floor plan open flair. Patio for sunset dinners. Wide plank real wood floors plus tile where you want it! Loft is a perfect place for the office and amazing 3/4 main hall bath. Pride is here. Rare ranch plan in an awesome community of Southpark! Steps to light rail too. Or shopping and dining at Aspen Grove. NICE! Great well cared for lawns and buildings. Pool & Tennis courts taken care of by HOA PLUS grounds maintenance, trash, water sewer. Extraordinary!

A beautiful home in great condition with fresh paint and original oak wood floors. This home has it all. A terrific bright and cheery main floor with a great front room which features a full corner window. Watch the events in the backyard from the bright kitchen which connects to the covered patio. There are 3 bedrooms on the main and the master has its own built in arnoir. The Garage is WAY oversized and there is an additional shop behind it for the wood worker or handyman! WOW!

Personality, style, and some free form comments on humor & life as a denver real estate agent since 1985

The other day I was driving out to a new listing in the Elizabeth area ( a nifty 10.4 acre horse property with 4 horse barn and 2299 sq ft house sitting on a walk out basement---shameless plug ;-) follow this link: http://www.denverrelocation.com/6651SunsetCIrcleElizabethCOlorado80117.html ) and I started to get a little melancholy. I saw al these subdivisions that were not there when I got in the real estate business in 1985 and all that great ranch land being taken up. Yet I was thrilled they way it has all come to be…sure there are issues but overall, I have pride in the properties I have sold and the neighborhoods they are in.

This sense all started as I drove down old “SOUTH PARKER Road” now known as Lincoln Avenue turned through downtown Parker and approached the Pinery. You see back in 1985 The Pinery was it. Sure there were a few homes south in Deerfield, Flintwood Hills, and out to Elizabeth, but the last real suburban type development the Pinery. Today before you get there, there is Bradbury Ranch, Stroh Ranch, Clark Farms, the new alignment on Hilltop Road, Hidden River, Canterbury and so many others.

Then after the Pinery we find an area call High Prairie Farms…a real horse community, Pradrea…an awesome new suburban community, and SW Pinery (not even similar in nature to the “real” one), Franktown (that just used to be a crossroads although they do have a cemetery)  and all the neighborhoods which used to be in the sticks like Russellville, Pinewood Knolls, Conestoga Pines and Flintwood Hills, are now fully developed, most with paved roads. Further east you bump into the Cimarron, Stage Run, Running Brook Estates and then Elizabeth….

The old Elizabeth was pretty much built in the heavy pine forests that surround the town and hence Elizabeth in the Pines. With areas like Running Brook, Saddlewood, Pine Ridge, and Bow Meadows as well as Arrowhead and Pine Crest Estates offering lots to build on over the years, many newer homes and floor plans are available even west of Kiowa. This part of Colorado is prime horse country with lots of pasture yet some folks want those pine forests that are south towards the town of Elbert Colorado.

On the way back I purposely went via Castle Rock and noted some other “new” developments, places that have been platted for years and have finally found their legs. Such as Castle Oaks, Castle Oak Estates, Metzler Ranch, the Woodlands and Castlewood Ranch. Most of these are getting developed with larger lots and some have wonderful views. Then there are the custom homes lining the ridge at Diamond Ridge! WOW!

Then think about the Meadows…boy has that had fits & starts, but now it is really hauling the freight with all price ranges in a master planned community. Red Hawk is almost completely developed and further north there is Castle Pines Village, a golf community, Castle Pines North, Oak Hills, and Lone Tree which has new homes being built in the Meridian area. Lest we forget Daniel’s Gate, on the south end of Highlands Ranch and Wildcat Reserve but the north end of Castle Pines North. And of course Quebec now turns into Monarch Blvd. south of MacArthur Ranch.

So, while I am proud of what we have done, I am melancholy for the past.