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214 acres off thika road-Bob Harris Road
popat
#1 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 10:27:42 AM
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Hi land iko wapi?Where is Bob Harris Road.I've always wondered why is it that sellers get mean with details about their properties yet they are out to sell?How do you trust such sellers?Todays Stardand PG.13.
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#2 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 12:24:43 PM
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From Juja town driving towards Thika, you go down the Ndarugu river valley (where there are many machined stone cutters). While down there, look out on your left, a dirt road.

There used to be a sample "Kijito" windmill at the junction; don't know whether it is still there.
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#3 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 12:49:53 PM
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mukiha wrote:
From Juja town driving towards Thika, you go down the Ndarugu river valley (where there are many machined stone cutters). While down there, look out on your left, a dirt road.

There used to be a sample "Kijito" windmill at the junction; don't know whether it is still there.


must be very remote then
GGK
#4 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 1:04:14 PM
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That place is in the middle of nowhere.

I wouldn't touch it with 5km pole
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addidaskawembe
#5 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 1:07:58 PM
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popat wrote:
Hi land iko wapi?Where is Bob Harris Road.I've always wondered why is it that sellers get mean with details about their properties yet they are out to sell?How do you trust such sellers?Todays Stardand PG.13.


@mikiha, you are right.

@GGK, it's not in the middle of nowhere, it can be a prime place if the road is tarmacked.

@popat.. it's not too far as - here are the co-ordinates of the junction 1° 4'57.97"S , 37° 2'26.73"E

NB: Turn left after Juja town, about 800 meters after the turn off you will pass a railway crossing. Bob Harris has a big farm about 2 kms from this railway crossing which has been under coffee plantation.

I have worked on a project around there and that road can be abit dusty during dry season and too much noise from the stone quarries around.
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#6 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 1:11:45 PM
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GGK
#7 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 1:13:38 PM
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@addidaskawembe you are probably right... I was born and brought up near those areas ... times have moved on.. pessimistic though
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#8 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 3:31:25 PM
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The Bob Harries farm that I know is off the Kamwangi/Gakoe road which is fully tarmacked and is to the left just before the fly-over into Thika town. It is after Witeithie. The Bob Harries family have been growing coffee for decades on a large scale and I suspect this is the land on sale. I know the area fairly well. On the negative side, there is a high crime rate in the area.
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#9 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 5:59:12 PM
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looks like all this coffee farms are going to go.
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#10 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 7:33:18 PM
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josiah33 wrote:
looks like all this coffee farms are going to go.


Very sad indeed... Even the 900 acre piece in recent papers isn't very far from there. The coffee farms have been a buffer zone for criminals from both sides of highland divide. When the coffee farms go...one cant imagine what will happen. It looks like in 20 years the whole of Kiambu will be urban.
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#11 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 8:56:40 PM
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Sad indeed,but let us not forget that most of the coffee farmers were reduced to destitution for decades due to low returns. The arabica variety grown in most of the Kenyan highlands is the best quality in the world and yet the farmers who grow it have never tasted it. Reason? It is way beyond their means! I know know this may not be the popular view but let them grow coffee in other parts of the country.
ali
#12 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 10:05:19 PM
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Lets look at the facts guys. I own a plot hapo nxt to bob harris and i can tell u frm xperience. Rd is dusty: true bt imewekwa murram. Its an all weather rd now. Crime: it has been a high crime area till muhoho george opened a college there and gave land for an AP camp. The camp is nxt to mangu girls/ compuera. . The land is in the middle of nowhere. 2 yrs ago, my aunt was selling 3.5 acres to me in juja farm @ 350k. Friends told me its backward, etc and adviced me to forget it. I forgot it. Last year, she sold the same land @ 1.8M. The area around bob harris is far better than juja farm the way it was. Shule ziko, rds pia, etc. Anyone with a keen eye will see Goldmine. Others will just see just the negative. Guys, the place is great. I know the area well.
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#13 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 10:50:18 PM
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GGK wrote:
josiah33 wrote:
looks like all this coffee farms are going to go.


Very sad indeed... Even the 900 acre piece in recent papers isn't very far from there. The coffee farms have been a buffer zone for criminals from both sides of highland divide. When the coffee farms go...one cant imagine what will happen. It looks like in 20 years the whole of Kiambu will be urban.

...and govt is encouraging it by extending the metropolitan boundaries deep into Kiambu.

Expanding Southwards into vast areas within Machakos and Kajiado would have been better
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#14 Posted : Friday, September 09, 2011 11:11:44 PM
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josiah33 wrote:
looks like all this coffee farms are going to go.


Very sad indeed considering coffee cannot be grown just anywhere.

Where will Kenya generate income from in some years to come after we uproot all of our cash crops?
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#15 Posted : Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:00:39 AM
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the gova may introduce a tax where if you have x members in a family you pay a tax on a graduated scale .

very blind government.
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mycool
#16 Posted : Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:37:35 PM
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And for how much is the land going for? Ideas of prices around that area?
simonkabz
#17 Posted : Sunday, September 11, 2011 8:25:40 AM
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I know the place, a goldmine in waiting. The middle-upper class will definitely be attracted coz of the wazungus.
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ali
#18 Posted : Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:44:05 PM
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@my cool. Land not very expe there by the way. Bought 100x120 in jan this year @ 250k. Was being sold same size @ 400k last month. Water, power, etc available. Pia AP camp ipo just nearby
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#19 Posted : Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:50:48 PM
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simonkabz wrote:
I know the place, a goldmine in waiting. The middle-upper class will definitely be attracted coz of the wazungus.

How? d'oh!
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