Established neighborhood in Round Rock/Cedar Park (Houston, Austin: leasing, new home)

[winterfading]

Hello. I have been reading these threads for a while now, but this will be my first post. My husband and I are currently living in Round Rock, right off of Great Oaks Drive @ 620. We are leasing, but would love to purchase a home sometime in the future. My DH is currently working as a full-time substitute teacher in Round Rock ISD. He just passed his certification test and will be applying to the district to work full-time shortly. We have been looking at different areas in the the Northwest region. We really love having the closeness to Austin, RR and Cedar Park that we do now and so we are not looking farther north than 1431 traveling on 183 and I-35 and no farther south than Parmer lane traveling on Mopac. We would prefer to stay west of I-35 due to my employment. I grew up in a neighborhood in Houston called Kingwood. We had a lot of homes built in the 1970's-1980's that had really good size lots and many trees. I would love to find something like that here. I love the established neighborhood feel where the homes aren't exactly the same and the homes aren't 6 feet from each other. The older neighborhoods that we have visited haven't been maintained well, the homes seem cookie cutter and there are NO trees. The only neighborhood that I have really come to like is Round Rock West, but right now it's over our budget. We our incomes, our price range is maximum $160,000.

Would anyone have any advice on areas or neighborhoods that might be good to check out? I would appreciate any names, areas or opinions that you could provide. Thanks

[newrrmom]

Have you looked in Brushy Creek North, I have no clue to be honest of prices, but has the homes you describe, my only thing is you would probably have to do a lot of work at that price and that always leads me to a new home, we have no time or extra money to make a old home, clean.
good luck.

[HappyTexan]

There's another neighborhood just west of Round Rock West called Cimarron. I know you can turn into it off McNeil. Don't know about the prices though.

Egger's Acres, Mesa Park and Mesa Ridge between 79 and Bowman is another set of older established neighborhoods but it's been years and years since I drove through them so I don't know how they are these days and those are east of I35.

[TexasHorseLady]

I agree, Brushy Creek might do it for you. Or Woods at Brushy Creek. There are homes in those areas that are in your price range.

The houses currently on the market in Cimarron mentioned above are in the $175-225,000 range.

[Angemal]

We live in the Anderson mill subdivision but our house is close to 620. We have super easy access to 45, 183 & 620. Look around this area...all the houses are older, no two look the same. There are some not well kept areas, but there are quite a few nice pockets. Lots of trees as well!


Look around Grisham Middle School. That's a decent area.

[Rainier2]

Hah, I grew up in Atascacita (across the lake from Kingwood). Grew up in a house built in the 70s, had TONS of massive trees. It's difficult to find as many trees out here since it's so wet there. We lived in Round Rock for a while too (on the east side), but ended up moving to a more scenic area in Dripping Springs on an acre. We have lots of trees, but they are about half the height of your average trees in Houston.

[sxrckr]

Not going to find an area like Houston's Kingwood in any of the other major Texas cities. The areas of Houston that are in a pine forest (Kingwood, the Woodlands, Humble, others) are unique to Houston. Sorry.