Purchasing real estate always comes with its fair share of difficulties, but few face the kind of challenges that awaited Brent Underwood, 39, when he purchased a ghost town near Lone Pine in California.
In July 2018, Underwood used “every penny from every account” of his life savings, along with investments from friends, to buy Cerro Gordo, a former mining colony in the Inyo Mountains, located on the western edge of Death Valley.
Once a home to over 4,000 miners and townspeople, it was completely abandoned when Underwood got stuck there for more than a month during the coronavirus pandemic.
