DESERT RAT BABY!!!!

There is a group that gets together about once a month at Majerle's in Desert Ridgehttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/542036-real-estate-investing-networking-event-phoenix Travis Shelton was very helpful (this is the link from the last event) 

Specifically, he took his girlfriend's car and tried to dump it in the desert to collect on the insurance.

As a matter of fact, the house has been deserted for at least 4 years.So I looked into the history of the sale records.

I was a Marine Infantryman in Desert Storm.

The great human migration from coastlines and deserts has begun.

Will the construction boom slow, or will there be skeletons of buildings rotting in the desert and elsewhere?

Just not my thing.Also, the high plains desert is a tough place to visit.

At some point the sprawl will be contained either through boundaries like Indian reservations (to the south of Phx) or simply too great of a distance from jobs to make people's commutes worthwhile -- which will jack up prices in places where people have already built, which means even more appreciation for home values.The big negative here is that these are cities in the desert, and if drought keeps going (a real possibility), then there might not be the natural resources there much longer that would sustain the population, which of course would mean people selling and moving out and losing a lot on their real estate investments.

Here, one enters the high desert(3000-3500 ft) in about 5-10 miles Temps now are 65 at night and 75-85 during day at my cabin in Nov .(3500 ft )If interested in learning more email my partner, Linda at [email protected] as I will be in LA off and on for a while.John_