Nesmuth
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15 yrs ago I invested in pieces of land in Salton City and the lots were $4-$6,000 each and everyone I talked to about this were like 'poo-poo Salton City...It's a toxic paradise' and all kinds of negative stuff including "middle of nowhere" from my own mom. Fact it was actually a toxic soup the Salton Sea WAS at the time I bought the land there. Then came the superfund cleanup to remove the fertilizer rich runoff that has acummulated in Salton Sea. Then came the travel center and casino. The result is property values have Jumped up in the past 12 months and they now average $75,000 per lot.
I also made some bad investments like a $700 lot in the San Jose area in which it started to go to like $2,000 then came the Loma Prieta quake (the famous candlestick stadum world series game quake) and access to the happyland district were peppered with visble cracks on the ground cause the land value to slip down.
The same thing for my Mc Coy trial investment near Clear Lake. It was a $5,000 investment on a paper subdivision. The values there was good until "The Geysters" a city 10 miles south west started to exibit pre-volcanic symptoms that led to the discovery of a huge magma bubble miles beneath the subdivision and that causes the values to sink.
I also have a piece of land in the Val Verde area north west of the Magic Mountain area that looks good for 10 oil wells. I'm still looking for investers who would buy and put the oil well/pumps there. I originally bought the place to put 3 mobile homes on it for my retirement 'paradise' then the oil wells started to pop up around in the years after I bought the land.
I wonder if any other deafs have made interesting land investments like this.
Richard
I also made some bad investments like a $700 lot in the San Jose area in which it started to go to like $2,000 then came the Loma Prieta quake (the famous candlestick stadum world series game quake) and access to the happyland district were peppered with visble cracks on the ground cause the land value to slip down.
The same thing for my Mc Coy trial investment near Clear Lake. It was a $5,000 investment on a paper subdivision. The values there was good until "The Geysters" a city 10 miles south west started to exibit pre-volcanic symptoms that led to the discovery of a huge magma bubble miles beneath the subdivision and that causes the values to sink.
I also have a piece of land in the Val Verde area north west of the Magic Mountain area that looks good for 10 oil wells. I'm still looking for investers who would buy and put the oil well/pumps there. I originally bought the place to put 3 mobile homes on it for my retirement 'paradise' then the oil wells started to pop up around in the years after I bought the land.
I wonder if any other deafs have made interesting land investments like this.
Richard