Now that you mention Goldfield, I know someone who owns two homes
there. He got them  from a tax sale for a few hundred each.

In Nevada, if the property is behind in it's taxes (how far behind I
don't recall), you can petition for it to be put up to a tax sale. They
contact the owner via both mail and newspaper.  Then you get to bid on
it. He uses the junk homes as some sort of tax write off when he flies
into Lido (I think that is the airport nearby).

Here is a link on Nye tax sales, though it is old
http://www.nyecounty.net/Treasurer/20041116_landauction.html



Krackula wrote:

what I'm thinking is that if   the  Army  Munitions  Depot
and the Navy  NUWTL  ( as both have nukes )  " both " move out
and those activities close down ....... then  most of the
privately owned housing in the town of Hawthorne will
become vacant as the base workers have to  leave town seeking
new employment elsewhere  !!   when the town empties out
and all those houses become vacant , I'll  take a look at what becomes
available and choose a  vacation home from one of those. they  have
all  the city utilities etc..... and  would be ideal  ! nothing to do
with government owned land left  at the base or anything like that.
probably 60% of the town of Hawthorne would empty out.  there
are  affordable homes available there right now , but who wants to buy
property sitting on top of a powder keg waiting to blow ?  hahahah a
not much demand for real estate around  Hawthorne with the ammo
still there , it's HIGH risk property  and even insurance companies
don't want part of that place !  the  munitions would have to be gone
before I'd even remotely consider property there , for sure !


I looked through one of those reality brochures from Tonopah last
summer  ( got it at the market near the casino ) and the only
residential property available was a  single longish old wooden
construction  mining era  home .......  had roofing shingles nailed
on the side of the house , 2 bedrooms, outdoors parking, wood heat,
 and very shabby looking and they wanted  about $297,000  dollars for
what was basically a 1100 sq foot  run down shack there in town on one
of those residential streets that run up the hill with the antennas on
top !   all those well paid civilian  TTR  workers have  run up the
property values there in Tonopah .  more demand than supply !
( people said that TTR has  some housing near one of the gates
because too little is available for all the base employees in Tonopah
) .  WAY more than I'd pay for something like that !  Saw a VERY
affordable   property over in a little  active mining place called
Silver Peak , but the only reason it was " affordable " was because
there was a  half inch of  poisonous " Lithium dust " all over the
area from the mine !   not exactly what you'd call a nice place to
live.  there is a  " company " bar and little  " company "  store
there but it is one heck of a desheveled place to say the least .

when looking around , we also went to Goldfield and had the mayor
cooked  us  some hamburgers at their annual street party there in
downtown.
real nice folks there but  still the same old run down housing and
pollution issues in places there too.  seems like every single yard
has left over broken down cars , wash machines, tractors etc ......
stacked all over the place , some of the stuff from the 1920s or
earlier  ..... guess they don't have a land fill or waste collection
facilities around  there !! ha ha hah ahah aha

kinda liked the  area tho ...  fresh , rugged and outdoorsish !!
zillions of holes in the ground there ( we also have shares of 2 mines
in Goldfield )  ...... makes you worry about  the ground collapsing
underneath your feet .  so many tunnels , like gophers over ran the
place !  hah hahahaha    I like to  use my metal detector in that
ruins area near the park ..... lots of 1800s mining era  pottery ,
cans and other relics  strewn all over the place there.  pretty
interesting stuff , lots of bygone history there at Goldfield !










On 2 Feb 2006 00:26:46 -0800, miso@sushi.com wrote:

The GSA sells off the land on line, so I don't exactly know what you
mean about it going before you get there.

The problem with buying old government land is you can't option it, so
you may not be able to convert it to the use that you desire. If you
option it and then lose in the planning commission, you just walk away

>from the options. [That gives the owner real tax problems, which is

another story.]

I think it wrote it up here, but the deal of the century was done with
the BLM in both Tonopah and where the mega shopping center is just a
bit south of Mt. Charleston. It's a bit complicated, but the feds
wanted to expand their BLM operation in Tonopah to the location where
the bowling alley is located. The feds did some land swap for the land
in Vegas and the Tonopah. The guy who got the Vegas land did have to
put in some cash too, but the Vegas project was just a killer
development deal. It has every known big block you can think of. Now it
turned out the feds didn't expand the BLM in Tonopah, and later put up
the bowling alley to auction.

Here is the offer to auction:
<http://www.auctionrp.com/auctions2/documents/item/Bowling_Alley_IFB.pdf>

Here is the land swap deal:
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1999/Jun-07-Mon-1999/opinion/11315640.html>

I think the bowling alley sold, but I can't find it on the net.

There are better private land deals in the desert. Do a bit of
googling, and you will find that "artist" who built a city in the
desert, well, a city of modern art. He bought most of the land for
pocket change. I've heard he shows up to the Little Aleinn with his,
er, um, women.

Krackula wrote:

On 31 Jan 2006 13:11:50 -0800, miso@sushi.com wrote: