West side is desert springs by trans mountain. 

And no green house gas.now granted you have to make the power but we get a lot of ours from Hydro.What I have seen in the Mediterranean is every home has a BLACK hot water heater on the roof.. no need to power it for hot water.. we should do that in our desert areas.. of course in cheaper areas they may get stolen like condenser units do.

I have two rehabbed ranch condos in North Phoenix in a very good location near the 101 and not far from Desert Ridge.  

We have RV & Boat Storage here in the desert without coverings getting beat up by the sun and people are paying $100 a month for it.Go for it!

Suppose you are lost in the Mohave desert and dying of thirst.

They look like they are in deserts usually.

Lastly what you will see is that civilization has come out to these places when you drive by and see some desert rat in his or her Mobile home stuck in the middle of no where that 95% of the time is on one of these old platted lots.. some areas Like some of the Lake co California areas town actually grew to them sewer and water and paved streets put in and houses builtBut for instance above Lucerne there are 7 thousand platted lots and I think 3 homes.. lots are 5 to 7k sq feet.. it was uncanny how they surveyed and platted them way back when .. this terrain is quite step but the road follow correct grades although some lots even with today techniques would be near impossible to build on.. 

I have had clients purchase in 29palms, riverside, palm desert, Bakersfield.

Not sure if the rental property is in the same location as your location tag but if it is the high desert more or less rides or dies with the overall RE market, you have a lot of owner occupants out there now because they can afford to buy reasonably nice homes out that way but not on the other side of the mountain. 

I’m guessing this Property is in one of our adjacent desert areas?