Lucerne Valley

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by Donn2390

Our favorite place to eat is Lettie's. Best and most Mexican food anywhere...

Consider yourself lucky if you haven't contacted food poisoning from her food.
I'm not so lucky. Neither are my sisters, mom, stepdad and brother-in-law.

[LQQKOUT]

Lucerne is a town out in the middle of nowhere....also full of back yard drug properties. It does have good areas for shooting and off road rec. but to live there....no

[Fontucky]

By "drug properties" I assume you mean meth labs? If LV was full of meth labs, shouldn't I be able to smell them?

[LQQKOUT]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

By "drug properties" I assume you mean meth labs? If LV was full of meth labs, shouldn't I be able to smell them?

If your sniff'in for them yes. Yes meth labs the HD is full of them. Trust me they are there.

[california-jewel]

Originally Posted by DesertDog2

It all depends on what you want from life, life is more than just jobs.
I grew up in the South Bay of Southern California. I have enjoyed some of the best weather in the world. Jobs were always available for me. You could find almost any kind of store imaginable. I have enjoyed my 57 years there.

During those years, I found that I would spend a significant amount of time and money getting out of town. I enjoy the recreational opportunities of the desert. I can only look at wall to wall houses, stores and busineses for so long before I want to remember what dirt looks like.

In my neighborhood, housing prices have tumbled to about 700k. Do the math, think about what size that payment is! Now, in reality, we bought our house for $260k, over 20 years ago, but I have done cash out refinances several times since we bought the house. We now owe 350k on our 260k home. Our home is about 2000 sq. ft. and the lot is about 5300 sq. ft.

So, for us, we did the math again and figured that if we sold our home at 700k, paid of the loan, we would have 350k in the bank.

Take 200k of that, and buy a home in the desert. That home is 2500 sq. ft., 3 car garage, high finish level and on half an acre. Now, that I own a larger more luxurious home outright, with lower taxes and no house payment, I can afford to work at minimum wage if I want to and live a better life style than I did in the south bay, where I had to work 60 hours weeks at a high skill job and still barely make house payments.

So lets see, shorter hours, nicer home, nicer neighbors, newer community with all of the niceties I enjoyed in the south bay (except for weather), closer to my chosen forms of recreation, yet still within reach of mountains, forests, lakes and beaches, better air quality, yada yada yada.

The only benefit I can see to my old way of life and my new one in the desert, is the weather, and for the 600k difference between home prices of equivalent quality, I am sorry the weather is nice but not worth over half a million to me. When you consider that the true cost of owning a home is multiplied by the mortgage, I am living a better life style and saving money.

If I compare to similar houses in the two different communities, I would save $1,095,876 between payments and property taxes over the life of a 30 year mortgage at only 5 1/4% interest, more at higher rates.

I can think of better things to do with the money than give it to the government and mortgage companies.

Plus, never forget one thing, some of us actually LIKE the desert!

Disagree with you totally. Son lives in this GOD FORSAKEN TOWN, if you can even call this a GHOST TOWN IT IS. Nothing great about LUCERNE AT ALL, maybe clean air that is about it, as for good home prices, sorry i have many realtor friends, you can get better deals right now down the hill. Do not live up there, if you must see a Doctor, because there are not very many HOSPITALS OR MEDICAL CLINICS CLOSE BY you have to go into APPLE VALLEY OR BARSTOW. Grocery store, forgot about it that one store on the corner, is a laugh. I have even seen toothless people hanging out there. Clean air, recreation that is about it, you are in the middle of no where, There are some nice People who live there, and i have seen many who i have wondered where have these people come from. To me it is the PITS. MY OPINION ONLY. Nothing conveient about this area. Now if you want peace and quiet, and Mountains, this is the PLACE FOR YOU. Oh and yes the air quality is good, it should be, there is nothing there. I am a person who totally loves my NEW SE CAMY LOADED, make sure you do not love your car living in this area, it will never be clean, i would be having fits, the WIND IS JUST AWFUL, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO MY DAUGHTER IN LAW TOLD ME A TORNADO HAD TOUCHED DOWN, DID SOME DAMAGE TO THE HOME OFF OF BARSTOW ROAD. I like the idea of actually living in a COMMUNITY. There are some nice desert areas, but LUCERNE IS NOT ONE OF THEM. I understand the town if you can call it this, does not want anything coming to the area, so there will never be growth to the area. It is a very poor area, which you can see by driving thru this town to nowhere, Mountains are close by and VEGAS not too far from this town, but you can keep the clean air, and the wind, and the peace and quiet, it is to eaches own, and I love living in a nice community, with amenities close by.

[bentstrider]

Great place to live if you're a truck driver, retiree, farmer, rancher, or run a business from home.

Apart from that, be prepared to do alot of driving if you want to make ends meet.

[lost in Michigan]

How Do I start a new Thread ?
Looking for someone who has been up to Tyler Valley lately I am wondering if the old corral is still there.
I own this 20 acres. and stuck here in Michigan.

Lost in Michigan