Affordably Owning A Homebase
As the hippies and artists did in the 1960s and 1970s, we are creating an alternative lifestyle community in a small town. Seeking creative and alternative lifestylers, remote workers, with $50k to $100k for their own home.
Currently available for alternative lifestyles in semi desert town in California are 20 homes under $100k and 30 apartments under $50k. The town has one of the lowest crime rates in California. With town amenities, utilities, internet, grocers, medical, schools, cafes and gas station. Plus beautiful big skies and surrounded by nature to go hiking and biking.
Not off grid and not new buildings, nor a new build suburb, nor tiny houses or trailers.. These are fixers, but they are real houses and apartments with utilities and town services hooked up. This is not a group owned land vegan commune where everything has to be shared and voted on. Instead you own your house and land make the decisions, have whoever guests you want, paint the walls whatever color you want, and eat whatever you want.
Photos of some of the actual houses we are looking at, listed at $75k to $100k. Give a house your love and style. Photos and listings current as of April 2026. Own the houses and land freehold.
(Note: The lake bed in the background isn't Salton Sea. Nor is it near or downstream of Salton Sea.)
The town is cheap and still in tact because it is remote and going through economic changes and generational progression.
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Homes with land and freehold title, under $100k, mortgage payments less than rents. With everything needed to build a lifestyle community. Have the whole house and land paid off in 5 to 10 years.Room to breathe, quiet and space for art and recording studio and grow organic veggies. It's also more eco friendly, because you are not building a new suburb or new house.
Community membership is gathering like minds to build lifestyles. Moving to a new town is a big change and can feel lonely. You need a community support group wherever you live, group cookouts, community discussions, Saturday Expressos, sharing information, Friday Night Margaritas, building trust, Sunday Morning Meditation, nature walks with friends, a neighbor to mind your house and feed your pets when you're away, baking a cake for somebody to sew your curtains, fixing a computer for getting a bathroom door frame fixed, pooling for bulk supplies, even share baby sitters. Relationships and social like minds and trust that normally take months and years to nurture in a new town on your own. Intangible support network vital for a healthy less stress lifestyle and a lifestyle community... bulk discounts on groceries and supplies and way less therapy bills.
The community network membership is $3,500, one time payment for life, and comes with info on the houses and town and who to contact directly to buy them, as well as info and contacts for other communities when they come up. Presented by SHAC, Small Homes Artist Colony. We do not take commissions and we are not licensed real estate agents, nor handle real estate deals or transactions, nor charge commissions or fees for referring property sales or building inspections. We help people form like mind lifestyle communities and affordable home owneership.