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Hello,
I'm a SWM professional 30 something considering relocated to Charlotte to work and go back to school (at UNCC). I am looking to spend no more than $75,000 on housing/condo's. What experience do you have for this range? I see some units that are in this price that include:
I'm coming from Orlando so it's really hard to judge the value of Charlotte housing with the boom that's gone on in Central Florida, where housing has at least doubled and in some cases, tripled, over the last 8-10 years. I've read a lot of posts and plan to visit the area around the holidays. The Northern area seems like a cool spot.
Much Appreciated!
-Rob
DO NOT under any circumstances buy at Orchard Trace. It is by far one of the most dangerous places in Charlotte. I don't even consider that the Univ. area and it makes me mad they market it as such. It is North Tryon and a bad area.
Shannon Green is a lot of college kids (and I mean kids, not grad students) and is very loud.
May I make a suggestion? Rent, don't buy, while in school. In your price range, you cannot get anything but dangerous ghetto or noisy, run down "frat flats". Go to the nice, yet affordable, apartments on Mallard Creek Church Rd. It is 10 minutes from campus but much, much nicer.
Noted. So there are some good apartments close? Something like, say, the Dominion at Mallard Creek? So hard to judge from online!
Those apts in that area have had more than average crime. I wouldn't live there. I'd pick Concord or Harrisburg much more safer than the Mallard Creek/Mallard Creek Church Rd area.
The Mallard Creek Church Rd/Prosperity Church Rd area is perfectly safe. I lived there for 5 years after college, and lived in the UNCC area 2 years during college (Ballantyne and SouthPark the other two years). There are some fantastic apartments there, with garages.
The university area gets a bad rap when it comes to crime due to the N. Tryon corridor and areas close to Sugar Creek which IMO should not be called the Univ area. Plus, college students are always going to be targets because they are out late and cars are left unlocked. But the Mallard Creek Church area is more residential full of families and professionals.
The Mallard Creek Church Rd/Prosperity Church Rd area is perfectly safe. I lived there for 5 years after college, and lived in the UNCC area 2 years during college (Ballantyne and SouthPark the other two years). There are some fantastic apartments there, with garages.
The university area gets a bad rap when it comes to crime due to the N. Tryon corridor and areas close to Sugar Creek which IMO should not be called the Univ area. Plus, college students are always going to be targets because they are out late and cars are left unlocked. But the Mallard Creek Church area is more residential full of families and professionals.
^^^Ditto to all of this. I've lived in the University area for over 10 years, never in an apartment though, but I have several friends who have rented in the area. You're not going to find any community, especially a rental community, that is totally 100% devoid of crime anywhere. Anything can happen anywhere, at any time, in any part of the city. But overall, the University area is a nice, safe place to live.
2/7/10..i live in shannon green condo phase 2..live here for less than a year, i will not renew my lease when its up...problems: bunch of section 8 in complex, more and more thugs hanging around, in builidng 9333 (people stand on porch drinking an smoking weed, loud,)..just a select few, but since they are tearing down boulavard homes, sure there are more to come....ps (im black)
Here's what the crime DB says about Sharon Lakes 0.25 mile radius:
Non-aggravated Assault6 Vandalism2 Aggravated Assault-Gun1 Alcohol Violation-Other1 Hit and Run1 Larceny from Auto1 Larceny-Other1 Missing Person-Age 16 and Over1 Possession of Marijuana1
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