Quick story. In 1976, a man named Ronald Wayne sold his 10 percent share of a brand-new outfit called Apple Computer for eight hundred dollars. Eight hundred. That stake, had he kept it, would be worth somewhere north of a hundred billion today. Where does a man go after a mistake like that? He goes to Pahrump, Nevada. Quietly sells stamps and rare coins. Lives a peaceful life out in the desert where nobody bothers him.
That tells you something about this town. Pahrump is where people go when they are done with noise. Art Bell broadcast Coast to Coast AM out of his Pahrump home studio for years - paranormal, mysteries, the strange and the unexplained - beamed to millions from a quiet desert valley. Michael Jackson bought a place here in 2008 and homeschooled his three kids out of it. The band Escape the Fate started here before Vegas swallowed them up.
Now look at the satellite shot of where this lot actually sits. Parque Avenue. Open desert behind, the foothills rising up north of you, the developed grid of Pahrump rolling out south toward Pahrump Valley Highway. You are on the edge - desert one direction, civilization the other.
The parcel itself is 8,800 square feet. A clean rectangle: 80 feet wide, 110 feet deep, square corners, no funny business. Bigger than a lot of what surrounds it. Zoned Village Residential. Dirt road frontage right up to the property line.
Now here is the part that matters most. Power lines run across the road from this lot. Take a look at the photo and you will see the poles right there along Parque Avenue. The expensive infrastructure question - the one that scares off most desert-land buyers - has been handled by somebody else, on somebody else's dime, long before you ever got here.
The annual tax on this whole parcel? Seventy-seven dollars and one penny. A year. That is less than what many people pay for a single tank of gas these days, and it is the entire yearly cost of owning this piece of Nevada outright. Purchase price $14,595. Get the keys for $146 down, then $146 a month. No bank, no credit check, no hoops to jump through. Grab this one before somebody else does.
