Preparation

House has Arrived!!!

Our house was delivered October 11, 2005.  We had some trouble getting through the cattle guards -- they were too narrow for our 16 foot wide sections.  Thanks to Walt Robinson, who happened to be working on building a corral at Mixon Tank when we arrrived -- Walt used his bobcat and helped smooth the way around the cattle guards so the transports could get through!!! 

We moved in December 30, 2005.

Bellwether Ranch Physical Address: 

12 acre Parcel:  10775 W. Bright Sky Trail
                         Williams, AZ 86046

24 acre Parcel:  10950 W Bright Sky Trail 
                          Williams, AZ 86046

Coconino County continues to make changes to our road names and addresses.  Eventually we will have to replace our current road signs with "fluorescent" signs to accommodate the county guidelines for emergency vehicles. 

Splitting your land:  The lender recommended we split our land. The bank was not interested in holding claim to the entire 36 acre parcel.

Hire a surveyor - we recommend Martin H. Martin, the original surveyor of 4 Hills.
E-mail address:  mlsinc@safeaccess.com
Phone: 928-526-0270

Contact Coconino County: 

Assessor's Office  
110 E. Cherry 
Flagstaff, AZ 86001  
1-800-559-9289 or (928) 779-6502 
We dealt with a guy named Scott at the Assessor's office who helped us in gathering information on what all had to be done to record our land split.  Here is the link on land divisions/splits: http://www.co.coconino.az.us/assessor/split.asp

 

Coconino County Community Development Office

2500 N. Fort Valley Road, Building 1

Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Telephone: (928) 226-2700 or 1-800-559-9289; Fax (928) 226-2701

The Homesite

In choosing the location for your homesite, consider where your septic field will go as well as the views. 

Hire a septic designer who will help you pick out a good location. If working with a manufactured home dealer, you can reserve the right to use your own designer. Septic designers/excavators can be a great asset or a pain in the asset...

We ulitmately let the dealer choose our septic designer, engineer and excavator.  We found this to be the path of least resistance.  MH dealers are very particular about who they work with on septics because of the excessively rigorous guidelines of Coconino County.

Brian Buzzell is the county environmental inspector for our section of the county. We recommend you contact him for information on the process for getting you septic system approved by Coconino County.

We will provide more information on our septic installation once it is installed.

The Process