Have you ever looked in the Inland Empire or High Desert?

Long story short, sold my home on 40 acres and business, made a nice profit, met an amazing man who is a contractor, got married, sold his property too and we moved to the high desert of Central Oregon near a very popular year round resort town.

My A class that I own I self manage I have a RE agent that puts them up they find a tenant I require 700 plus fico so that weeds out 90% of renters and then I set them up on auto pay and if they have an issue we send handyman.. to be fair my units are basically new construction and townhouses in HOA's in the Desert ( vegas) so there simply is not a lot of maintenance. there is A class in every city its just that investors get so focused on  positive cash flow they dont buy those for rental purposes so they miss out on the best rental tenants.. the higher the cash flow on paper the lower the quality of the units.. its a fact..

Both the GP and the lender can tell their investors that they won.To your question on how this is calculated, there’s no math formula, instead it’s more like that scene in National Lampoon’s Vacation where the Griswold Family Truckster gets repaired at the only gas station in the desert.  

I am quietly trying to buy another 4-6 of these in the high desert area of southern california in the next 10 years. 

Personally if the trend continues, more people will move out and it will just become more and more deserted and need to be repurposed. 

There are several large projects showing up in California desert as well and they are easily identifiable from GOOGLE map.2.

But avoiding buying in cities in deserts or relatively impoverished coastal towns might be a good idea. 

Granted, a lot of the city's geography is undeveloped desert, but the potential is there.

I see a tumble weed and a turtle off in the distance crossing the sun scorched sand lonely road in the desert.