This week has been busy in traveling to various vacant land parcels here in Golden Valley, AZ.  I am a firm believer if a seller wants me to list his or her rural real estate vacant land property, I must visit the property, take photos, determine the best road access along with the availability of utilities such as electricity and water.This belief reinforces the REALTOR®’s Code of Ethics that being to “protect and promote.”  Here not only in Golden Valley, but in Mohave County many roads show “right of ways” by the county, but have never been “cut in.” Roads that have been “cut in” often are single lane cow trails where Mother Nature graciously gives your vehicle pin-stripping. This is why many of my listings make this statement in capitol letters:DO NOT FOLLOW GPS!How can I promote my... 01/16/2026

Often people buy off grid vacant land here in Golden Valley, AZ because they want some elbow room for privacy or as my husband said “I don’t want to see my neighbors.” This nearly 2.5 acre parcel has natural privacy due to all the high desert vegetation. The seller invested in cutting in a driveway and creating a level building pad for a Recreational Vehicle, a new home site either site built or manufactured home or even a workshop. And better yet, the property is livestock and horse friendly. Imagine owing these 2.49 acres of Off Grid Property with 360 mountain views,  cut in driveway and pad for just $8,900. Being much closer to Highway 93, the future corridor for I-11, Las Vegas is about 90 minutes away and Lake Mead for those fishermen and women even closer. Kingman amenities are be... 01/17/2026

Often rural land buyers walk for sale vacant land without real estate agents. These individuals see for sale signs out in the middle of nowhere or close to the middle of nowhere and decide to leave their vehicles to walk some of the “dirt.” Unfortunately, walking the high desert dirt requires vigilance. For example, out here in NW AZ, Mohave County, Golden Valley, AZ there are numerous holes in the ground.  These are homes to ground squirrels that look more like chipmunks from my perspective. Often there are numerous holes within a short distance. These holes soften the surrounding dirt and one can find himself or herself suddenly standing in a hole from 3 to 6 or more inches deep.  And in that hole is not a ground squirrel but a legless and often dangerous critter, a venomous snake bec... 01/22/2026

Living and working here in the high desert of Mohave County, Golden Valley, AZ as a rural land specialist, I have my own unique tools of the trade for especially placing real estate signs on rural vacant land parcels.During my first several years in listing vacant land properties, my go to tool was a mallet for pounding in the signs.  I must admit this was difficult work given the ground here in NW AZ is close to concrete. Between the hardness of the dirt, the rocks, pounding in signs, often I was physically exhausted.Then I saw on Facebook, a real estate agent who appeared to be working in the city used a drill with an auger bit to drill pilot holes. My Swedish brain went “Duh” why hadn’t I thought of that?The next day, my husband and I traveled to one of our favorite stores, Home Depo... 01/21/2026