YEEHAW! FINALLY a perfectly presentable affordable home on 1 and a half Bates Road acres, with grandfathered ditch irrigation and Verde River access! Give me a second to talk about the ranch house, and then we'll get to the incredible piece of property, OK? 1872 square feet, 3 big bedrooms, a full master bath and a 3/4 hall bath. Enormous living room with cathedral ceilings and a beautiful natural gas fireplace, 2 skylights, a nice bright kitchen and dining room, plus a sweet little separate heated and cooled studio off of the covered parking, not included in square footage. Home has some updating, which included mini-splits throughout and a new roof 2 years ago. Covered parking for at least 6 vehicles, hooked to septic for RV. NO HOA! Click ''MORE,'' please. Behind the home towards the river you get a hay barn / storage building with horse corrals, next to it a well fertilized fenced and shade-screened garden area. You've got mature shade and Magnolia trees, plus well-established bearing fruit trees including fig, almonds, and mulberries. Let's wander from here through the fields on down to the river, shall we? What a beautiful horse property, although there haven't been horses for a while so if you have horses you'll want to pay attention to the fencing. And oh! Look! Somebody built a flagstone sitting area down here in the majestic Cottonwood tree shade, by the river. Nice! Here we are at your private shady Verde River access. Take a deep breath, listen to the birds, cool off your toes and sit a spell.