The home we rent in YV is going to be available on 8/1. 4 bedrooms, 2 bath, highly upgraded home in the Country Club area. Tile floors, granite countertops, high ceilings, crown moulding throughout, covered back porch that runs the length of the whole house, and a large fenced lot with fruit trees in the front yard. It has natural gas! I actually chose this house because of it's location. It is smack dab between 29 and Palm Springs. I am happy to send anyone pictures who might be interested. The owner is a local business owner, great guy. I would hate to see it sit. Thanks! 

It would probably help to know the rent. :) $1300 per month. Keep in mind that everything in the desert is negotiable! 

Try listing it on these sites:

http://www.militarybyowner.com/
http://www.remilitary.com/
http://www.ahrn.com/ 

We are Pcsing and my husband has to check in Aug 1, can u send pics to tmccool24@yahoo.com 

Why not just buy if your rent is 1300. These days you can buy an equally nice house out here for less than 1300 in a mortgage payment. Renting is like throwing money in the trash can. I'll never understand why people don't buy! 

Why not just buy if your rent is 1300. These days you can buy an equally nice house out here for less than 1300 in a mortgage payment. Renting is like throwing money in the trash can. I'll never understand why people don't buy!

I think people don't usually buy because we are military and it is very hard to sell your house in this market. I owned 2 homes in NC and we sold them before the market crashed in 2007, I would not buy a home now because when we leave we will have to most likely put tenants in the home. Not everyone wants to have to leave behind property when they PCS. My sister had to and she stresses about it often. Not worth the aggravation if military unless you plan on staying here for longer than 3-4yrs. 

I'll never understand why people don't buy!

I'm lucky I didn't buy when we got here (29, not YV) and rented instead. I thought long and hard about it when we got here in 2009.

My landlord has lost almost $50K in value in this house I'm renting since we got here. According to the property tax assessments, its lost about $100K in value since it was built in 2007. We're about ready to PCS again - had I bought, I would have lost a lot of money when we went to sell it! I'm all for buying, just in an area that people want to live :)

Downsizing + new houses on the base are really hurting prices in 29 Palms.

Also, $1300 is an obscene amount of rent. Rents for newish large homes were that high a couple years ago out here - not anymore. 

$1300 is an obscene amount of rent

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$1300 is an obscene amount of rent

Hahahaha! It is. We decided to buy because my husband is hoping to retire in the next couple of years. It is a new, large home but still more than we want to keep paying. The only upside is that it has natural gas which offsets the cost. Propane is CRAZY expensive. We only pay $1200 but they are now trying to renting it for $1300. 

Why not just buy if your rent is 1300. These days you can buy an equally nice house out here for less than 1300 in a mortgage payment. Renting is like throwing money in the trash can. I'll never understand why people don't buy!

We just signed our escrow papers today. :) But we are near retirement so it made sense. For people who don't plan to stay here it doesn't make a lot of sense. 

If your purchased your home before the "crash" then yes you probably did lose value in your home. However, buying now in a low market is perfect.

Also, we own a home in Jacksonville BC too and we have not lived in it since 2 duty stations ago. We have never gone without a tenant in that house and holding onto it and not selling it proved to be a wise decision bc now we own it outright. All the rental income is 100% profit now.

You can never get to the point of completely owning a home if you continue to rent.

...and YES 1300 is a lot especially in Yucca Valley and considering the gas money you'll waste driving to base. 

we own a home in Jacksonville BC too and we have not lived in it since 2 duty stations ago. We have never gone without a tenant in that house and holding onto it and not selling it proved to be a wise decision bc now we own it outright.

Oh Please!!!! 

lmao ^ 

However, buying now in a low market is perfect.

I met with two separate realtors in February about buying the house I'm renting now to use as a rental investment when we leave in a few months, and I was advised *against* it. I thought the owner was asking a very low amount and that it would be a great opportunity, but both of these realtors think the Twentynine Palms rental market isn't going to get better anytime soon. They both have stories of all of the rental properties they have in inventory sitting empty for long times. I know my landlord is sitting on a DOZEN empty homes in 29 Palms, which is a situation they've never been in. That inventory is driving rents in the area down a LOT.

I'm not saying it doesn't make sense to buy at each duty station and leave a trail of rental properties in your wake, it just doesn't seem like a good idea *here* - at least in Jacksonville you have the chance of renting to someone non-military. Here you are competing with the construction of new housing on base, plus the downsizing of the marines.

The realtors I met with were also complaining they are no longer seeing groups of marines getting together and renting a house off base - it seems they are either being encouraged or required to live on base if you are single. Perhaps there is availability in the barracks now. 

But we are near retirement

I'd love to retire out here :) I love the weather, and I could really get into off road vehicles :) or boating/jet skis in Lake Havasu... or RV airplanes in the field by copper mountain. Living is cheap enough there is an opportunity you can afford some toys :) Plus there is room for them. Seems many of my retired neighbors have boats/jeeps/ATVs/RVs/etc 

Living is cheap enough there is an opportunity you can afford some toys :) Plus there is room for them. Seems many of my retired neighbors have boats/jeeps/ATVs/RVs/etc

This is exactly why we decided to stay even though he had to drag me out here kicking and screaming(and crying for at least 6 weeks after we got here). :) Traveling is something that is important to our family and we can do more of it with a mortgage under $1000. Plus a retirement check goes a lot further out here than in Oceanside or Temecula. 

a retirement check goes a lot further out here than in Oceanside or Temecula.

Not that much further. It's still California lol. 

Having spent my entire adult life in San Diego County I can tell you it goes a LOT further. My mortgage would easily be twice as much in Temecula and three times as much in Oceanside. And in some odd twist in the universe I make the same money out here as I did in the areas where the cost of living is MUCH higher. Wasn't expecting that!

That being said, it is still California. ;) 

Isn't that what I said lol? 

I was just messing with you. :) No harm, no foul. 

Ok.....? lol So you are a retiring/retired Marine? 

Ok.....? lol So you are a retiring/retired Marine?

I was joking. Ok.....?? Not really sure why that appears to be odd or confusing to you. My husband has 21 years, is thinking about getting out in a year or 2 when he is about done with his Masters so we bought a house out here. And I'm not sure why that matters. lol 

I guess I was confused. We were talking about making it on retirement pay out here vs. further So Cal and you mentioned your pay; which I didn't know if you were the Marine or not. So you are comparing living out here vs. down South with your pay or your husband's future retirement pay?

It doesn't matter in terms of things that matter in the world lol. I was just trying to understand what/where you were coming from because it seemed a little off regarding retirement funding. 

Ok gotcha. Your confusion was confusing me. lol

I was comparing living out here with his retirement AND my salary to living SoCal coastal, particularly in regard to my salary because my pay is the same here as it was in San Diego but the cost of living here in the desert is much different.

And I may have just confused myself. It's been a long day. lol 

I was comparing living out here with his retirement AND my salary

Ah.