Legal Access

What I've found in my searches lately regarding cheap land... the first thing to look at:

Does it have Legal Access?

Let's take this one parcel for example: 40 acres for just under $10k. The advertisement says it has road access. True enough, the plat map shows a road going straight through the property. The problem is that it's a BLM access road, not a county road. The road comes off a county road and passes through a privately owned section, then a BLM section, and then back to a private section.

In order to obtain legal access (Right-of-Way), you first need to contact every person who owns every plot of land between the county road and the property.
You would need to get a Deeded Right of Access from each and every one of them, so you could pass through their property on that road. They can charge whatever they want for that.

Once those are obtained, you would have to get in touch with the BLM.
You would have to pay for the whole road to be surveyed. That's about $2000 for the first mile, and then $500-1000 for every mile past that.
Then you would have to pay for an Environmental Impact Survey.
If that passed, then you would have to pay for a Paleontology / Historical Significance Survey.
All totaled, it could run anywhere between $10k to $100k JUST for the right to get to your land.

You might think, "Well, I could just do it, and don't even worry about all that before I get caught. No one would know, right?"
Here's the kicker: you can't get a C of O (Certificate of Occupancy) if you don't have Legal Access.
Which means you could ignore it, try to get around it, and then not be able to actually legally live in the house you put on the land.

There are many lots being sold in Desert Valley (Jungo Road area) that do not have Legal Access. Most of them, actually.
Most of them are accessible by roads no more than Jeep trails... BLM fire access and hunting/recreational roads.