About Gila County, AZ

We manage well over 100 rentals, but we have only about 4 or 5 which are four bedroom.

This one is currently for rent. It is a large double-wide manufactured home, newer- so it is light and bright inside. It sits on a city lot on a cul-de-sac in a quiet part of town, It has a deck, a fenced yard, and even a fireplace in the master bedroom!

It is available for $1150 per month.

For this or any other rental in the Payson area, visit http://www.RentinPayson.com

Don't you remember in grade school during the fall and winter arts class would always make some sort of fun little bird-treat for you to hang in your back yard.

Here is your chance to embrace your childhood memory and utilize it to help scientists track birds (low or high in numbers) and log migratory patterns. www.feederwatch.org is the place to sign up to pick your days (November through April) and later input your data of birds that visit your backyard bird feeders. There is a small fee to sign up but they send you a research kit and all the tools necessary. This is a really cool opportunity for those of you who might get snowed-in or on winter-break and something to do to keep warm and do something constructive to watch a bird feeder and see which kindof birds show up. You never know, you might get to see a rare bird too! Not advertising, Just remembering the good ole days...

I want to share some of the benefits of living or being a part of the Payson area. There are vast trails and mountain ranges that are just waiting to be seen. From any outskirt of Payson you can get to endless trails that can take you all over! These particular pictures are taken from horse-back on a trail that leaves Flowing Springs and loops around towards Beaver Valley and Freedom Acres. Hope you Enjoy looking at these pictures as I did taking them.

This is Dolly & Rio Smoochin before we leave Flowing Springs

Small Portion of the East Verde River

Monsoon had just ended on a Mountain Range-- Beautiful Double Rainbows seen here!

This is by far my favorite picture of a place known as Love Lady.. an old ranch. This is where we always love to play with the horses and quads. There is even an old fireplace still standing amidst some trees in the back if you know where to find it :-D

On the way home this is a wonderful place to take a rest. Miss Dolly pictured above was daring enough to leap over a rattle snake sitting on the bank at this very location. Hope you enjoyed this little bit.

I love to garden! When we moved to Payson I was so excited- a four season climate! Reasonable temperature summers! I can garden!

Well, yes, Payson has nice daytime temperatures in the Summer, but the nightimes can be down in the low 50s. And we can have storms with high winds and hail. We can have Spring snows and Fall heat. Fruit trees bloom in the Spring and a frost knocks down all the buds. A Fall frost knocks out flowers, and then it gets warm again.

For help with gardening in the Payson area I recommend the local gardening clubs. High Country Gardening Club has a website, as does Rim Area Gardeners. Or contact Plant Fair Nursery in Star Valley. They are very knowledgeable and helpful.

Alas- I pulled my tomato vines last weekend I hated to do it, but twice it got much colder in my backyard than was forecast, and some of the vines froze. Payson is notorious for a killing frost followed by Indian Summer, but I didn't want to have to cover and uncover on the colder nights. So I just gave in. Now I have a counter full of green tomatoes, a freezer full of ripe tomato salsa, and am already thinking what to plant next year!

I DID, however, put pansies out front. They can withstand the cold, even snows. I also put in some of the prettier versions of chard, kale, and mustard. I've got to have something to look at in my flower garden! Besides, they are good eating, and can take a lot of cold.

To Garden Memories!

If we can help you locate property in Payson, or give you information on the sales or rental market, please contact us. We have been in Payson for 20 years, and we love to tell people about the area!

Visit our web site for information on homes for sale or rent in Payson, and pictures.

The oldest home in Payson, Arizona is sod and was built in 1882. It can be seen at 505A W Main St. And was built of mud to make sure it would not be burned down in an indian attack.

Payson, AZ, is located just 80 miles north of Scottsdale and is surrounded by 3.9 million acres of National Forest.

Payson was founded around 1870. and has an elevation of 5,000 ft.