ot; desert rat dreams…cheap real estate…

[scaredyclassic]

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5015-Elata-Ave-Yucca-Valley-CA-92284/17496763_zpid/

so here’s a shack pretty near joshua tree that is not particularly nice or even representative of what’s out there…but jeez…50 to 60 k for a crappy little place in the beautiful desert. why worry about things going bad? there’s ickier ones for 35k but it wouldnt cut much off a mortgage payment…you can always escape out to the desert, get a mortgage for like 220 a month. taxes are low…hang out in the park and learn to rock climb. read a lot of books. you could come down the hill and beg by the freeway and probably make your mortgage easily…

america has beautiful opportunities…i wouldnt mind some days just dropping out and hanging in a crappy shack in the desert…actually sounds pretty good…

[scaredyclassic]

not much of a bounce off the bottom out there, if at all…maybe you can rent camping space to travelling climbers…

[spdrun]

Why buy out in the desert if you can buy an old RV for a few grand and squat out in Slab City? 😀

[moneymaker]

I remember when I was in the Corps, going to school at 29 Palms (right down the road), there were rumors that people were making snuff films in the area. I don’t think that place would be any good for a porno, but yes I’ve seen much worse places in that area. If I were to buy in the desert, high desert would be my first choice.

[paramount]

I like that house – and as much as anything what it may represent – freedom from the rat race.

[NotCranky]

No too different from where I live already. Cheap though. I like the house too.

[FlyerInHi]

Too much like a shack.
And too far out of everything.

You can live near a major metro and still live cheap if you want. Sometimes you might want to get to town or work.

You should consider a Hawaiian island. Better weather and gardening, food self sufficiency potential.

This house here is better.

[UCGal]

I have a friend who lives in that area. The cheap/paid for home on acreage lets them live a very alternative lifestyle. Kind of like your bar/clinic/law-firm/psychic idea. (My friend’s a bit of a hippy.)

She’s happy in the desert and low expenses mean she doesn’t have to slave for wages as much.

[spdrun]

Or a place to do business after the Zombie Apocalypse comes to town…

http://www.survivalblog.com/2010/01/jims-quote-of-the-day-1444.html

“WARNING!!!
Ring bell. Wait. Advance with your Hands Up.
Stay on path, avoid mines. We lost three customers last week. We can’t afford to lose YOU.”

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=UCGal]I have a friend who lives in that area. The cheap/paid for home on acreage lets them live a very alternative lifestyle. Kind of like your bar/clinic/law-firm/psychic idea. (My friend’s a bit of a hippy.)

She’s happy in the desert and low expenses mean she doesn’t have to slave for wages as much.[/quote]

I’m kind Of locked in to the system but it’s fun to have a plan b. A friend of mine actually just quit it all and moved to Cambodia to hang out indefin8tely.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=FlyerInHi]Too much like a shack.
And too far out of everything.

You can live near a major metro and still live cheap if you want. Sometimes you might want to get to town or work.

You should consider a Hawaiian island. Better weather and gardening, food self sufficiency potential.

This house here is better.

agreed much nicer. But the shacks in the desert are practically free per Sq ft compared to that 704 Sq ft gem.

I once went to a guys shack up on top of the Ortega men’s by lake elsinore. Place was completely fun ked up in a perfectly fun ked up wally wish I took pics it was awesomely wadi sari thrashed but I loved it… not fancy. Just worn and beat beautifully…

Joshua trees pretty close to Coachella valley/ palm springs which is kind of a metro stea. Plenty of gay bars at leeast

[scaredyclassic]

My problem us my ego is tied up with lawyering. Probably can’t hang it up. Would be untethered. Same way I’d be sad unmarried or childless. I need these things for who I think I am. Not a freewheeling hippie at heart.

[CA renter]

At least you get some land with it. Still seems a bit expensive to me, especially since it would be difficult to make a living out there. Maybe okay for a single person or childless/retired couple.

It just looks so desolate…

[NotCranky]

Probably rather buy a property in latin america instead…let people live on it and just save a shack or part of a shack for me and my family when we wanted to go there.

[FlyerInHi]

That shack in the desert would probably cost $500 per month to cool in the summer. People in old houses in Vegas have complained to me about high cooling bills.

You could move to arcosanti and become their general counsel. If you haven’t been there already take your family on a field trip. I bet they’d love it.
Also be sure to buy a bell. Arcosanti bells are a big hit with architects so lots of mansions in the southwest have them. You need one for your mansion because you’re nobody without an arcosanti bell.

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