Welcome to Arizona Friends
Affordable, Sunny, Southeast Arizona Real Estate-land, platted lots, homes- all with 360 degree mountain views in Cochise College Park, near Douglas and Bisbee in Cochise County, near Mexico, at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains.
How would you like a home, located on the western range in a peaceful place that:
A) Provides you a natural environment that...
- Offers at least three and one half gentle, distinct seasons each year.
- Is surrounded by constantly uplifting, nearby, mountain views in all directions.
- Affords the tranquility of living in wide opens spaces only ten minutes from an international twin city area with modern supermarkets and stores.
B) Provides you inexpensive opportunities...
- To keep a horse and ride it for miles and miles without opening a gate.
- To ride a bicycle or golf cart over smooth dirt back-roads to play golf or to swim year round in municipal facilities.
- To enjoy a neighboring country with good restaurants, inexpensive medical prescriptions, and interesting shops.
- To hike to spectacular views on five nearby mountain ranges encompassing the broad peaceful valley where your home will be located.
- To watch up to 340 species of birds, many of which will come to you if you feed them.
- To view the solar system from your own backyard where the stars appear to be big and bright.
- To meet few other vehicles on the paved highway leading from the front gate of your community to the golf course and the city limits four miles to the south.
- To drive to the Grand Canyon National park or the Gulf of California in less than a day.
C) Provides lifestyle options for you...
- To be a part of a small community of homeowners who try to help one another to acquire homes, to enjoy life and to live younger longer.
- Or just to be by yourself in natural beauty .
- To be near, and to have constantly available excellent primary health care facilities, should you ever need them.
- To give your family and friends a place where they can come visit you, absorb the atmosphere and sense the history, of this beautiful place where the Wild West was tamed, but never really died.
- To enroll your children in a bi-cultural school system, while you work at home, to become a successful artist, published writer, skilled musician, wealthy Internet sales person, or whatever your dreams may be.
- Or, merely to be retired and to be living gracefully in the midst of awesome natural beauty.
- To design a landscape of beauty and distinction which requires no water and no lawn mowing!
IF you would like such a home, you can put it on LotS 1384 and 1385, shown below.
It may be possible to build it with your own hands, using inexpensive, energy efficient, indigenous materials such as adobe brick, earth, or straw bales. OR) If you prefer, you can watch such a structure being built on contract by skilled local craftspeople for only a fraction of what a similar sized lot and home would cost in many other parts of this country or the world.
If you would like more information about properties available, please browse our Letter of Invitation, Special Opportunities, and Private Sale List.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Arizona friends community does not own or sell Real Estate. This is done by the owners, such as the Stuckey Trust, or those of property listed for sale on the Opportunities Page of this website, who pledge to sell their lots or homes at, or below, their published price, to any person regardless of race, religion, handicap, familial status, or national origin; and, who promises to abide by the recorded covenants of the respective Cochise College Park Unit in which their listed property is located. This website is maintained by Roy Joe Stuckey, trustee, of the Roy Joe and Ruth E Stuckey Revocable Trust, aka, Stuckey Trust. See Letter of Invitation. Design credit is given to Andy Morgan, David and Amos Newswanger, Joe Stuckey; and Edwin Basye, Sites that Grow LLC. Other professional assistance has been provided by Keri Jaehnig, social media consultant; Sam McCowin, Property Manager; Ed Wall, Internet expert; Jason Walt, CPA; Larry Elkins Photographer, Mark Bockel, Attorney; and MaryAnn Ead, Real Estate Broker,---December 2, 2011-rjs
Letter of Invitation
Dear Internet Visitor,
Over the past fifteen years, we believe the Stuckey Trust has achieved an estimated average annual appreciation of nearly 10% per year on its Cochise College Park inventory. Now, In the present improving national economy, real estate in southeast Arizona may offer an even better value in relationship to other locations in the nation and the world. See our Blue Ribbon Investment Package.
ALL of our building sites have almost 360 defrees of mountain view. Birds are everwhere. The stars here seem big and bright. Besides being a good investment, this is could be a good place for your second or next home.
Two miles to the east, is US 80, running through the southernmost pass of the North American Rocky Mountains. Twelve miles to the west, is Bisbee, known for its huge inactive copper mine, and its thriving artistic community. Forty miles to the northwest, is Tombstone of "OK Corral" fame. Five miles to the south is Douglas, on the border with its sister city of Agua Prieta, Mexico, a busy, human scale, city with more than one hundred thousand people, great restaurants, good pharmacies, skilled dentists, a world class eye clinic, and high quality fired adobe brick used in some of our home plans.
We can provide you bed and breakfast at the Starbuck House after February 1, 2012 and year round hook-ups at our AzCrazy Ranch which has a community water system and a working corral. If you become the sucessful bidder on one of our properties, you may be able to keep a horse there, and ride it for many miles over the open range or up into the nearby mountains. Or, from your new home, you can ride a bicycle, or golf cart, over mostly smooth dirt back roads to the well maintained eighteen-hole, Douglas golf course. The city also operates a year-round Aquatic Center, Squash, Handball and, Tennis Courts, and a fitness room, each at very reasonable charge.
For both profit and pleasure please click now, on Opportunities.
Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey,Trustees, January 30, 2012.
Starbuck House AZ Crazy Ranch Unit 10 Lot 3879
Location
The Arizona Friends Community is located in the beautiful Sulphur Springs Valley of southeastern Arizona, four miles north of Douglas, AZ, between the AZ Crazy Ranch and the community golf course located at the Douglas city limits.The map below will give you a better idea of were we are. But, for a more thorough look, or concise directions, we recommend that you look up the Douglas, Arizona zip code (85607) using www.mapblast.com.. Please note Wells Cemetery road is now closed permanently.-- March 1, 2008--RJS
Services in Douglas
- Douglas Aquatic Center sells thirty-day passes for swimming and Racquetball for $45
- Douglas Golf and Social Club offers greens fees as low as $10.00 for eight holes
- Douglas Recreation Center exercise room is free to those over 55 years
- It is easy to get fast WiFi Internet acces in the Douglas Public Library, the Visitor's Center or Burger King
Opportunities
Flash announcEMeNT SOLD
Special Opportunities
New Home, World Class View
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A custom built, high quality, 1,200 plus sq. ft.. two bed room, polygon home with a world class view, brand new and ready to move into, in Unit Seven, for sale by owner R. Delaney listed with Holly Berryhill and Multiple Listing Service. This home has to be seen from the inside in order to be appreciated. At $119,000, it compares favorably in value with most other homes presently being built in the Douglas area. From its 600 sq. ft. Great Room, one has a magnificent view of College Peak and Saddle Back Gap, the Southern most pass in the North American Rocky Mountains. It has a high insulation factor and is virtually hurricane and earthquake proof.
Choice Home Building Site
Lot is within 1/2 mile of the Douglas Municipal Golf Course
Cochise College Park Unit Nine, Lot 3096, is presently the only site in our "for sale by owner" inventory which is situated in Unit Nine,"The Golf Course Subdivision". Lot 3096 is a beautiful corner lot, located approximately 2700 feet from a back green of the Douglas Municipal Golf Course, and only six hundred feet, as a crow flies, from the proposed eighteen hole private golf course planned to the west. That land has recently been in the process of annexation into the Douglas city limits.!!
We have just purchase Lot 3096 from the heirs of Chester and Florence Emmons, who were close friends of our parents, Jesse and Clara Starbuck, who together purchased their lots in 1970 from the original developer Ned Warren, who was thirty-eight years ahead of his time. Old Ned's time is we believe soon coming, as people all over the World, look for a safer place than paper securities, in which to invest their savings.
Lot 3096 is a slightly smaller than 15,000, square feet because it is a corner lot, 150 by 100 feet on the sides away from the street corner arc. There is only one turn from La Sabana Drive onto La Edad Drive to reach the utilities on paved Golf Course Road. The Price is $2800.
Personal note from Roy Joe Stuckey, ccpspecialist-- "I recommend Lot 3096, as a "good as gold" investment, at this time, as our country probably faces a period of price inflation and dollar devaluation. ." -- RJS, March 5. 2011
Enjoy Good Neighbors
...such as Gary and Lavinia who built this hacienda style house in Unit Seven, in the heart of the Arizona friends community.
Choice Lots for sale by their owners at Private Treaty
Two of the the most valuable Lots in Cochise College Park
Two lots offered by Paul and Carol Livezey:
All lots have near 360 degree mountain views and good buildable terrain. Size, elevation, access to community water systems and proximity to electricity are the major factors in determining the price. Lots without power are called "off-grid'. These are suitable for minimal energy use homes with solar power, compost toilets and water tanks. Cochise County Zoning regulations require a full acre, in order to receive a permit to drill a well. costing from six to twelve thousand dollars. Single lots are eligible for a Cochise County, unified building/septic system permit, if served by a community water system. and with a soil test indicating room for septic system placement. Shares in The Arizona Friends Water Company cost $3,000.each, Taxes on unimproved lots are less than.$14.00 per year The above listed owners offer their lots, without discrimination of religion, sex, age, familial status, or handicap; to financially qualified persons, who agree to abide by the recorded covenants of Cochise College Park, Units #7, 8, 9, and 10.--- RJS, January 28, 2012.
A NICE BED AND BREAKFAST AT A GREAT RATE
Private rooms, when available at The Starbuck House, are reserved for a $30.00 voluntary contribution to the house fund, per night, plus six dollars for a second occupant, sleeping in the same room. These arrangements are available, on an informal basis, to sincere persons who are considering acquiring land, building homes, and enjoying life in the Arizona friends community or, are visiting friends there. Included each morning, is a simple, healthful, breakfast. Phone 937 728 9887 for reservations. or email rstuckey1@earthlink.net.
Private Sale List
| CP# | LOT | FEATURES SELLER | SIZE | PRICE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | PWT Twin-lot with soil test for septic Moffitt | 200X137 | $8,999 | |
| 7 | PWT Long view twin-lot zoned for mfg home Stuckey | 284X70 | $7,999 | |
| 7 | 1394 | P500 WT, jumbo, fenced, key location on Laredo Dr Livezey | 215x109 | $7000 |
| 7 | 1342 | PWT .JUMBO, fenced, prime Stuckey | 100x271 | SOLD $6,300 |
| 7 | 1378 | PWT Upscale Location, 4 Cholla Cactus Moffitt | 100x137 | SOLD $6,200 |
| 7 |
1384 1385 |
PWT connects two lots for mini-ranch PAIR Livezey | 100x137 | $6,000 |
| PWT Fenced Corner Key on San Luis Obispo Livezey | 150x108 | $5,000 | ||
| 6 | 147 | PWT near pavement, new house across street Stuckey | 100X140 | $5,599 |
| 7 | 1533 | P300 ft, WT on site, price negotiable Shepherd | 90x186x | SOLD |
| 7 | 1528 | P1000 ft,WT on site,wonderful sunset Moffitt . | 100x 137 | $5,000 |
| 7 | 1301 | P1200ft,WT on site, fenced near Starbuck Moffitt | 100x137 | $4,500 |
| 8 | 1908 | P1100ft, W 600ft, elevated site Stuckey To Terry | 108x150 | SOLD |
| 8 | 1997 | P2700ft,W2200, JUMBO elevated site Stuckey | 109x216 | $3,900 |
| 9 | 3096 | P2700ft. W2700 ft. Golf 2700ft> STUCKEY TRUST | 100x150 | $2800 |
| 7 | 1534 | PWT, special price with adjoining Lot # 1533, Shepherd | 108x150 | SOLD |
| 10 | 4033 | Beautiful Off-grid building site, Auctioned 02/29/08, on eBay, to Valerie and Jordan, from the New York City Area, to build an "Earth Friendly" Home | 100x150 | SOLD |
Gary & I Build our Dreamhouse
by Lavinia Spivey
Coming soon!