For quite some time now I've concentrated on looking at two of those, the far reaches of the Inland Empire (Hemet, Victorville, Desert Hot Springs, etc.), and the least desirable parts of LA (South Central, Compton, etc.)

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He wondered why my "Desert sand" looked like regular "Off White"I buy all the paint from now on.

Our development is located in a small desert town in California where most people would never live in an HOA, so we want to make sure to make the development enticing to new owners, but as you said, not make people "shy away" because of too many restrictions.

Building big trophy houses in the desert with elevators in them when sound bank-owned homes all around them are being neglected into rubbish at the expense of the taxpayers?

(Desert Storm Vet here)We are all looking forward to your future real estate success stories!

The only "iffy" is that it is in the higher desert but again, if you can buy it right you can always sell it right as well.Property is worth $205,000 and the acceptance was at $130,000.So, YES, don't necessarily assuage yourself of CA, just work in the areas that make sense to what you are looking to do.Bueno fortuna!

With a drink or two at the bar before dinner, wine with dinner, apps, steak, desert, and valet, you are over $400, which is fun on your brithday but I would have to be making deals like Rich in TX, and Mike in OH to do that every week.

Our house in Murrieta, CA is practically in the desert, so we decided not to install a large lawn that would either cost the tenant a small fortune to irrigate (especially in the summer) or die because they couldn't afford the water bill.

Here in the desert, our green vegetation has a brownish color to it.