11 Quartz Dr, Silver City, NM 88061

This revenue-generating property, a 1984 all-adobe 3 bedroom, 2 bath adobe house was extensively remodeled 2007-2011 and upgrades continue to the present day. The property is wired for a hot tub and RV with ample parking for the RV. The house is both passive and active solar with high south-facing, opening clerestory windows and a 4.2 Kilowatt hour grid-tied PV system that not only pays for the electricity used by the house, but produces extra power, netting the owners income from the utility company with a transferrable Renewable Energy Certificate that does not expire until January 21, 2025. A battery building currently used as a studio has already been built and is ready for battery banks. The house & garage are both plumbed for water, which is supplied by either/both city water and a producing well, with water rights, and with appropriate switching valves and back-valve protections. Heat is supplied by natural gas forced air furnace and by an environmentally upgraded Jotul wood stove. Remodels to the acreage include a deer-fenced, fruit-bearing orchard, grape vines, vegetable garden, greenhouse (2011), bricked patio with drainage, heated studio and observation deck (2011), garden tool shed (2009), and water retention and drainage systems (2010), all around a xeriscaped front yard. The house's floors are all dark red brick or Saltillo tile. All the woodwork in the house was locally hand-crafted, including all cabinetry and solid wood doors. Numerous Arts & Crafts touches were added, including antique and antique-reproduction glass door knobs, hand cast bronze cabinet knobs, exterior lights, bronze switch plates, and tilework to the exterior garage concrete pad. Numerous updates and upgrades have been made to the home including all new Jeld Wen double pane, Low E windows (2007), new 30-year commercial grade rubber roof (2007), 4-panel, artist-crafted stained glass Sandhill Cranes at Sunset artwork in clerestory windows, Bali double-cell, insulated, black-out window shades (2011), Bosch range top (2011), new energy efficient furnace (2014), new energy-efficient Whirlpood dishwasher, Jotul wood stove, new plumbing faucets, new light fixtures, added ceiling fans, new front double-door-double pane patio doors with screens. All windows have screens. A more detailed list is below; note that some items will be sold separately. The house is 1425 sq. ft., the garage is 450 sq. ft., the heated studio is 80 sq. ft., and the observation deck is 188 sq. ft. The living room is 17.6' by 19', the eat-in kitchen is 21.6' x 14.8', the master bedroom is 14.4' x 18.2', the master bathroom is 10.6' x 6.4', the master walk-in closet is 6' x 5.5', the 2nd bedroom is 22' x 12.3'; and the 3rd bedroom and 2nd bath are smaller. Exterior adobe walls are about 10 inches thick; internal adobe walls about 9 inches. Annual property tax is $1,160 and the annual utility cost is $348 (natural gas only; electricity is free). Trash pick-up is available for extra.