I found what I believe may be a good deal.Detail on deal:Found a duplex in Palm Desert, Ca:$425,000, 2 units2 bed/1 bath per unit, 2,544 sqft per unit. 8,712 sqft total. 

My friend was telling me he was renting a few blocks away from Desert Edge (close to 500S 500 E) a 2/1 for $650, and 4 blocks away a new class A building renting 1 Bdrms for $1,150.

Sometimes as part of a mobilization (Desert Storm, IFOR, Iraqi Freedom) but often just on orders, often called ADT (active duty for training).

just a fact of life in most rental areas in most parts of the country.you don't run into it as much in the desert since many times they put them up on the roof.I actually had my first one stolen in Portland..

For those that don't know, Rancho Cucamonga is in the High Desert of California, on the highway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

They're both in the desert, but Phoenix dwarfs Vegas in size & scale.

I'm very interested.How many units will the facility have and what is the setting (busy corridor, deserted rural, etc.)?

In Houston, you have the humidity, and in Phoenix you have the desert heat.

The town was deserted after someone was murdered back in the 1970s.  

Desert land far from roads in a remote part of an unpopulated state.If you're looking at land averages for an entire state, that could be misleading.