Shadow Ridge Estates (El Paso, Clint: fit in, sale, attorneys)

[verichip]

According to them they would approach all the adjacent owners in the same perdicament on not being able to sell less than 5 acre tracks. But your right, it seems far fetched.

Thanks.
Veri.

[johnScheer]

I was contacted today, 10-26-10 by Nat'l Land Invest. & Trust to sell to them. However, they wanted $1197.00 to make the transaction and wanted my CC #'s to charge it to!!! I laughed at them.... However, I wonder how many people are being duped in to doing that and losing their money to crooked land companies. They may not even be a company but a boiler room to get the money and run!! Anyone reading this should be very cautious!!!!!!

[J. W.Johnson]

Dec 29, 2110 They called me just a few minutes ago wanting to buy some vacant land we own in Colorado. They are offering an outrageous amount of money. I tried to sell the property on the open market in 2009 but was advised that there wouldn't be any takers as the original company still has quite a bit of land to sell, and we purchased the property back in 1976. They are to send me the paperwork for our lawyer to look at before we make any decisions.

[W. M. Trammell]

I received a call from the National Land Investment and Trust stating that a suit was filed against the Horizon Land Company regarding the utilities for Shadow Ridge Estates. They further stated that the suit was settled were the Horizon Land Company was to install utilities in 5 acre parcels. If there is a settlement where is it posted and how do I get a copy? W.M. Trammell

[Gary Siete]

Originally Posted by W. M. Trammell

I received a call from the National Land Investment and Trust stating that a suit was filed against the Horizon Land Company regarding the utilities for Shadow Ridge Estates. They further stated that the suit was settled were the Horizon Land Company was to install utilities in 5 acre parcels. If there is a settlement where is it posted and how do I get a copy? W.M. Trammell

I doubt it's true. National Land Investment and Trust just wants you to pay them money.

[atrabilius]

Hey, does anybody have plat maps of Horizon City Estates units 42 to 54? (I believe that's about two to three miles south of Greg Drive on both sides of North Ascencion Road going about a mile west from Ascencion and half a mile east.) I'd like to look at them, if you've got them as a GIF, JPG or PDF file, something like that.

[eded60]

I also own 4 lots in this seemingly ficticous community. I never seem to get much information on the lots. I never get tax bills anymore. Someone has to know something. Maybe an agent who lives nearby can enlighten me.

[joqua]

This short article was in the Santa Fe New Mexican today. While it speaks of "time shares," these scams are rife wherever there are properties that people can't seem to sell any other way.

Attorney General's Office warns of time-share scam

The (NM) state Attorney General's Office issued an alert about a time-share scam that cost one New Mexico victim several thousand dollars.

Market Value Properties contacts owners of time-share properties and offers to help them sell their interest, advising the owner that the company is working with an escrow company that will serve as agent for the transfer of the money, the warning states.

Both Market Value Properties and Diamond International Escrow are fraudulent companies, according to the Attorney General's Office.

To enhance the legitimacy of their solicitation, the statement says, the companies use a website with a host that operates outside the United States.

"If you are contacted about buying or selling timeshares without initiating that contact," the statement says, "the Attorney General's Office advises you to thoroughly check out the company prior to sending any money."

[atrabilius]

Originally Posted by eded60

I also own 4 lots in this seemingly ficticous community. I never seem to get much information on the lots. I never get tax bills anymore. Someone has to know something. Maybe an agent who lives nearby can enlighten me.

Horizon City exists. It's just southeast of El Paso; it's an incorporated city with a population of about 16,000 that has a lot of platted but never-built subdivisions around it, mostly outside the city limits, where thousands of people around the world like yourself own patches of desert without any utilities and worth practically nothing that they might not be able to even get to except with an SUV or ATV or on horseback. This is the legacy of the shady land development corporation that developed Horizon City in the Sixties and Seventies, the Horizon Corporation. There's a corporation or agency in Horizon City whose name I don't remember that's trying to straighten all this out.

[atrabilius]

Originally Posted by atrabilius

Horizon City exists. It's just southeast of El Paso; it's an incorporated city with a population of about 16,000 that has a lot of platted but never-built subdivisions around it, mostly outside the city limits, where thousands of people around the world like yourself own patches of desert without any utilities and worth practically nothing that they might not be able to even get to except with an SUV or ATV or on horseback. This is the legacy of the shady land development corporation that developed Horizon City in the Sixties and Seventies, the Horizon Corporation. There's a corporation or agency in Horizon City whose name I don't remember that's trying to straighten all this out.

It's called the Horizon Communities Improvement Association.

Their website.

They have something called a Lot Assembly Program that's been slowly acquiring parcels of land and putting them together into big tracts that they sell to developers who have the resources to install the water lines that Texas state law says land has to have before it can be sold for residential purposes. I don't think they've gotten to Shadow Ridge Estates, though. They're concentrating on land near the Horizon City city limits right now.