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229 Colorado Ave
The market · about the home
Good · confidence 4 / 5

An honest price, in the heart of town

229 Colorado Ave · Paonia · $425,000

At $425,000 this 1967 ranch asks below the county's $450,627 valuation and right at the online market estimate — a price the seller has cut twice to reach. It owns Stewart Ditch irrigation water and sits a short walk from everything Paonia.

The numbers
Asking
$425,000
County value
$450,627
Market est.
$420,300
Tax / yr
$2,208

Does this home take care of you?

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Owns its water
A Stewart Ditch share — keeps a garden alive through a dry summer.
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Soil that feeds
Colona silty clay loam — prime farmland if irrigated.
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Sun on the roof
Room for 78 panels, ~49,000 kWh a year.
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Walk, don't drive
Seven essentials within 5 km; grocery, school, fire under ½ mile.
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Low fire risk
Non-burnable — the lowest USFS class.
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Watch: it's 59 years old
Original owners since 1967 — budget a full inspection.
Is $425,000 a fair price?

At $425,000 the home asks $281 a square foot. The county values the whole property at $450,627 — above the asking price. The automated market estimate lands at $420,300, almost exactly on the ask. The price sits between two independent numbers rather than above them.

The home went up in October 2025 at $525,000, was cut to $475,000 in January, then to $425,000 in May — a $100,000 reduction over about seven months. A price walked down to meet the market, not held above it.

Listed at $525,000, cut to $475,000, then to today's $425,000.
Does it own water, or grow food?

The listing states the property carries irrigation water from the Stewart Ditch — a ditch share, the kind of owned water that lets a town lot grow food through a dry Western Colorado summer. The state's decree database doesn't return a separate parcel-level right, so confirm seniority and conveyance in the deed and ditch records — but a stated ditch share on a Paonia lot is a real asset.

The soil is a Colona silty clay loam — prime farmland if irrigated, which is exactly what the ditch makes possible. Against the three cost-to-zero tests — owned water, soil that feeds, sun on the roof — this small lot quietly passes all three.

Owned ditch water, prime-if-irrigated soil, a strong solar roof — all three tests met.

⚑ Honest caveats — verify before you commit

The Stewart Ditch water doesn't surface as a parcel-level decree — confirm seniority, amount and conveyance. The home is 59 years old with original owners since 1967: everything not named as updated is original vintage and wants a full inspection. Zoning isn't on file for this parcel — confirm allowed use with the Town of Paonia.

The receipts — all 34 layers tap to open
Assessor
County actual value $450,627 — land $106,000, improvement $344,627. Built 1967. Est. tax ~$2,208/yr.
Recorded sales
One 2001 warranty deed at $0 — original 1967 owners, never traded at arm's length.
Water rights
No parcel-level decree returns; the listing states a Stewart Ditch share — verify.
Soils
Colona silty clay loam — prime farmland if irrigated.
Wildfire
Non-burnable — lowest USFS hazard class.
Solar
Room for 78 panels and ~49,000 kWh a year.
Points of interest
Grocery, school, fire, library, bank, post office within a mile; hospital 26 mi in Delta.
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