Back in 1958 a developer named M. Penn Phillips and the Holly Corporation looked at a stretch of California desert next to an inland sea and decided they were going to build a resort city for forty thousand people. Twenty-five thousand homes. The whole nine yards. Frank Sinatra came down. So did half of Hollywood. They water-skied. They fished. They drank cocktails on the shore of the Salton Sea while the rest of America was still figuring out what a vacation was supposed to look like.
Then the development got abandoned. The streets stayed. The grid stayed. Most of the lots? Empty to this day.
Which brings us to 1331 Leeward Avenue.
This parcel sits in the Vista del Mar community of Salton City - near the sea itself. Look at the map and you'll see the shoreline is a quick walk and even shorter drive.
Now here is what makes this particular piece of dirt different from a thousand other desert lots somebody might try to sell you:
Paved road. Drive right up. Park on asphalt, not on a rutted track that eats tires for breakfast.
Water and sewer are located along the front edge of the lot. Both of them. Already there.
Power nearby - two parcels over. Not a mile. Not "somewhere out by the highway." Two lots.
Here are the numbers: 75 feet fronting Leeward Avenue, 127 feet deep on the left, 127 feet deep on the right, 75 feet across the back. That works out to over 9,500 square feet of Imperial County desert ground, zoned residential, low density.
Neighbors are already there. You can see them in the photos - fenced yards, palm trees, a house standing proudly with mountains rising behind it. This is not raw frontier. It is a real recorded address on a real paved street with real neighbors that the original developers planned and the modern grid still serves.
And the property tax bill from Imperial County for all of 2025? Sixty-one dollars and forty-six cents. For the year. Try finding that anywhere else in California.
Here is the deal:
Total purchase price is $17,095. We carry the paper ourselves - no bank, no loan officer, no credit check, no application to fill out. If you can put down $171, you are approved. Period. From there you pay $171 per month until the lot is yours free and clear. Pay it off early any time you like. No penalty.
And every parcel LandMonkey sells comes with a thirty-day money-back guarantee. Drive out. Walk the corners. Look toward the water. If it isn't what you pictured, say the word inside thirty days and your down payment comes back.
One lot. One owner gets it. Click the orange button and let's put your name on the contract.
