This is a parcel on a real street, not a stake in open desert. Sand Ere Avenue runs paved out front, and the lot sits in one of Salton City's platted grids where homes are already scattered up and down the surrounding blocks. The ground is flat and sandy, dotted with low scrub, with neighbors close enough that you're plainly inside a neighborhood rather than off on your own.
Power runs to the property, with the power lines running right behind the parcel. Water and sewer are both at the street line out front. On a lot this size, in this stretch of the desert, having all three already at the edge of the property is far from a given.
Salton City itself has one of the more interesting stories in California. It was laid out in 1958 as a resort city meant for tens of thousands of people, drawing boaters, water skiers, and a Hollywood crowd through the '50s and '60s before the grand plan fizzled. What's left is this enormous platted footprint along the Salton Sea, now better known for bird watching at the shoreline, the off-road country at Ocotillo Wells, and the desert art at Slab City and Salvation Mountain that pulls photographers and curious travelers out here year after year.
You're looking at roughly 10,500 square feet of flat, residential-zoned ground, owner financed with no credit check and no bank in the way. If owning a piece of this corner of the Imperial County desert appeals to you, this one makes it easy for you to get started today.
