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Copley's Former Casa del Zorro, Financially Troubled, for Sale Again
Rams Hill, founded in the 1970's by DiGiorgio, was then expensive. Modest homes for $200,000. Borrego Springs, the town, while small and unpretentious, has just enough services to make it modestly livable. A nice new County Library, elementary, middle, and high school, senior center, private plane auto-night-lighted airport, no stop lights, and only 1 elevator in town. If you are looking for La Quinta, Palm Desert or La Costa life style, go there. If you want a slower paced simpler life, Borrego Springs, and all the residential developments and custom homes won't disappoint. Surrounded by a 600,000+ State Park, in the middle of an official Dark Sky Community and only 1 hour from Ramona, 1 hour from Indio, and 2 hours from San Diego downtown, you are not all that far away from civilization even though it almost seems like you are on another planet. Water? It is being managed more efficiently than in the cities and the whole community supports drought thriving plants. Hot? Yes, June thru Sept, which is why they invented Canada for Frequent Fryers. Expensive? Not now. There are deals a plenty. For someone with a new vision, like DiGiorgio had, Borrego Springs, and Montesoro and Borrego Ranch and the remainder of Borrego Springs are a rare opportunity that have not yet reached their potential. Hope springs eternal. Someday, not soon, people will be saying, boy, if I had only bought property back in 2009 when things were on the skids.— October 9, 2009 8:37 p.m.