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I had thought about this back in the early 2000’s before I retired. While talking about moving where there was no snow (just after a blizzard) one of the guys who used to live in NM talked about the weather out there. Now I was thinking northern NM he said they get snow would have to be farther south, so while talking I started looking on Ebay for property. After a few days I was the new owner of 2 building lots south of Deming,NM with electric on the pole across the street. Now the reason I bought this was both lots where adjoining so 1ac the lots allowed camping for 50 weeks of the year, water for a well was stated to be as low as 50ft and septic as also easy to do.Now I also looked at buying land in AZ there was 5 lots with no power so I called the electric co. and she was very nice and explained that to run power to those lots would cost about 25K not that they where way out there less than a mile if I remember. It was they have to follow where the roads would be and every corner is another pole even though they can rum 300ft between poles so by the time you got to the lot it was 25k. But there was caveat to this for 20 years anyone who tapped into the line would have to pay half of the cost, she said once you run electric the lots tend to sell along it and after 20years or less you will more than likely have paid zero. Just off the cuff I suggested the trick would be to buy all the lots along the the power line before installing it:)

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