One February night in 1990 my husband glanced through the Want Ads in The Outlook, what was then recognized as the daily paper for the city of Santa Monica, California. He found there an ad for five acres of land located in the desert town of 29 Palms. Because he had spent about four years looking for a good land deal, he quickly called the telephone number listed in that ad.
Without warning, our family found that it’s plans for the evening had been changed. My older son, who had already donned his Boy Scout uniform, would have to forgo attendance at the troop’s weekly meeting. He would be joining his younger brother, his mother and his father for a trip north to the residence of the elderly lady who had placed the ad for the desert property.
The landholder and her daughter warmly welcomed our family into their shared residence. We learned that the older woman’s husband had purchased this particular five-acre spread about 30 years earlier. That gentleman had since died, and his widow wanted to sell the land and thus increase the size of her savings.
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We left there with the deed to the land and the assorted buildings we were told then existed on it. My husband secured directions to the property, and we set aside one weekend for a trip to 29 Palms. I enjoyed the journey outside of the confines of Los Angeles County. We discovered that our property was just blocks from the Joshua Tree Park.
The day of our first visit that Park was not one of our National parks, but it later achieved that status. I fantasized about the possibilities inherent in owning a piece of property close to a National Park. I even started a folder, where I collected news clipping about the Joshua Tree Park.
Last year we sold those five acres for about twice what we had paid for them. My husband had found that land after searching laboriously through countless Want Ads. Today the Internet makes such searches much easier. Those wanting to buy property can go to http://hop.clickbank.net/?nineliner/landlister.
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