Vegas.super low maintenance newer construction stucco  tile roofs desert scape.. property tax's 1/3. 

Hi I’m Tanya and I currently live with family in the desert of Southern California and commute to work that is 1.5 hours away.

I also put in desert landscape so no irrigation needed at all.

Issue is it is always built upon a certain market cycle and standing, then when market changes it's either under-performing for property owners who leave and use standard PM to make much more, or the moment their is any bumps in the road it sucks the business dry of all capital and it goes belly up like a road scorched turtle in the Nevada desert. 

(In Vegas at least they can say the water meter has been running for x number of days constant.)We live in the desert and have a pool.

Does anyone have any experience operating a rental in Indian Wells, Palm Desert, or Cathedral City where only stays longer than 28 days are allowed?

Four years ago, while reporting a story about the drought, Emily received a tantalizing tip: In a small town in the Mojave Desert, salespeople were making tens of millions of dollars hawking empty desert land to unsuspecting buyers by convincing them the area would boom one day — and if they got in now, they could get rich, very rich.

I find this helps me identify which areas are "food deserts", or places which the major chains won't serve due to economic reasons. 

Although many like you and I would rather live in SC (btw, ever been to Blackrock Desert/Playa?)

I am not suggesting you do that, just stating that you can find and form your own niche and work it hard.If rentals are what you are after, finding cash flow in So CAl is difficult at best unless you are in the desert areas and outskirts far from LA.