5439 6th Street NW

Drive north on Rio Grande Boulevard from Old Town and the city gives way in about four minutes. Cottonwoods close over the road. Irrigation ditches run alongside the pavement, horses stand in half-acre pastures, and the street grid quits pretending to be a grid. That's the North Valley. Most buyers looking at North Valley homes for sale are after the same two things: land, and the old trees that came with it.Where it starts and stopsThink of the river on the west and I-25 on the east, running north from the Old Town area up to Alameda Boulevard and the Sandia Pueblo line. Fourth Street and Rio Grande Boulevard are the two spines, with Guadalupe Trail, Ranchitos Road and Chamisal threading between them. The cross streets you'll hear named constantly are Candelaria, Griegos, Montaño, Osuna and Alameda. Addresses run 87107 through the middle of it, 87104 at the south end near Los Duranes, and 87113 and 87114 up at the north end.Understand this before you write an offer: three governments...