2.6 Acres on Buck Horn Trail, No HOA.
The hardest part of owning land you plan to use someday is usually the someday. Years can pass between buying a parcel and building on it, and on a lot of land those years come with dues, rules, and a tax bill that keeps reminding you it’s there. This parcel on Buck Horn Trail in Wild Horse Mesa is easier to hold. Taxes run about $55 a year, and there’s no HOA or POA reviewing your plans or sending you invoices.
That changes how you can approach the land. At 2.6 acres, there’s enough ground to think carefully about where a home site, a driveway, and a camping spot might each belong, without the parcel being more than one person can get to know. The zoning allows short camping stays, so you can spend time on the property in different seasons before deciding anything permanent. Nothing has been built or installed yet. Water would come from a well or cistern, waste from septic or an alternative system, and power from the local utility or from solar or wind. Those are your decisions to make, in your own order.
In the near term, this is a place in Costilla County to come out to, camp, and see how the land feels across a few visits. Later, the Estate Residential zoning leaves room for a site-built home or a mobile home, subject to the county’s permitting. The low cost of holding it means that later can arrive when you’re ready, not when a bill says so.
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Zoning information
From the county's zoning. Covenants or HOA rules, where there are any, may be more restrictive than zoning.
- For a site built home, you need a 600sqft minimum footprint.
- Mobile homes are Allowed.
- You can camp for 14 days (every 3 months)
Temporary RV Occupancy permit available for up to 180 days if a well has been permitted or cistern installed and a septic or onsite waste management system has been installed
$250 fee - good for 60 days at a time while building, renewable
Zoning office is open Monday through Thursday and can be contacted at (719) 672-9109 to answer any questions.
Where it is
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Details
- Parcel number
- 71224030
- Size
- 2.6 acres
- Subdivision
- Wild Horse Mesa
- County
- Costilla
- State
- Colorado
- Annual taxes
- About $55
- HOA
- No
- Power
- No. Local electric company (Xcel Energy @ (800-895-4999), solar or wind. Or try 800-332-7634
- Legal description
- W.H.M. SECTION F BLK 82 PARCEL 19 (238-444) (MTN.TRCT.ACC. 406-867-960)
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Things people ask us
Really. We finance the land ourselves, so there is no bank and no credit check. You sign the contract, pay what is due today, and set up the monthly payment.
Yes. Our listings show where the land is, and you are welcome to drive out and walk it. We sell first come, first served, so the parcel goes to the first person to make the down payment. You also get 90 days after your down payment to go see it in person. If it is not the one, we will move you to another parcel or refund what you have paid toward the land.
Yes, any time, with no penalty. And if you pay off the balance within the first 24 months, we take 15% off what is left.
When the land is paid off. We send you the warranty deed to look over, then record it with the county in your name within 30 days of your last payment. We pay the recording fee.
They are built into your monthly payment, and we pay the county for you, so there is no separate bill to keep track of. Your monthly draft is the land payment, your share of the taxes, and a $10 servicing fee.
Legal description
W.H.M. SECTION F BLK 82 PARCEL 19 (238-444) (MTN.TRCT.ACC. 406-867-960)
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