The above photo shows a drive down the main drag known as North Marina drive west of Highway
86. As you can see, there are plenty of residential lots undeveloped. It appears an attempt was made to have some sort of master planning by centralizing postal service for homes as seen in the next photo.
Many of the homes here were built with block wall fencing (as seen behind the mail boxes) and other nice luxuries such as fireplaces and dual air conditioning units. As with the rest of Salton City this area suffered with foreclosures during the housing crash. Neighbors tell me when interest in this area stalled, homebuilders took shortcuts and many of these homes are poorly constructed. Based on my limited observations, I find that hard to believe.
If any of you readers have an interest in the area, plenty of buildable lots are available for purchase if you choose to build your own home. This is an advertisement I chanced upon while driving to the Salton sea estates:
There is plenty of room for growth here and I would like to see that happen by the time I retire there sometime around 2021. If you desire a safe low cost place to live or to start a business, this is an excellent place!
One of the homes for sale in the development consists of three bedrooms three baths enclosed in about 1700 square feet
The price was not noted, however as of the Summer of 2013 similar style homes are advertised from about $75000 to about $100,000 depending mainly on condition in Salton city. Back in 2009 when I bought my place they could be had for around $50,000. The Original prices as advertised by the builders was around $265,000. This one appears to have nice landscaping and is perched on a small hill and probably has good views.
Well, That will be it for this blog and my next visit to the area will be over the Labor day weekend at the beginning of September.
