I f your idea of home includes horses outside your window, room for a barn, open Arizona skies, and enough acreage to enjoy some privacy, rural Yavapai County deserves a closer look. The communities surrounding Prescott, Chino Valley, Prescott Valley, Williamson Valley, Dewey-Humboldt, Paulden, and other parts of Yavapai County offer everything from modest acreage homes and vacant land to established horse properties and larger ranch-style residences. For buyers searching for horse property in Yavapai County, though, finding a beautiful home on several acres is only the beginning. Rural property requires you to look beyond the house itself. Zoning, water, wells, septic systems, fencing, road access, terrain, animal restrictions, easements, outbuildings, and future improvement costs all play a role in determining whether a property will work for you and your animals. That is one of the biggest differences between purchasing rural real estate and buying a home in a traditional subd...