Estates at Rockhill (Dallas, Plano, Frisco: foreclosures, house, neighborhood)

[lsuvaayu]

Hello

We are planning to move to Dallas around June/July and are looking at Spec homes in Estates at Rockhill. Can you provide any insight about this community/location. We have two young kids and schools are a priority.

Thank you.

[jdallas]

It's really far out there. For half a million dollars, you could find a nice home in an established Plano neighborhood with better SAT scores and a higher percentage of NMSF. 1.2% at Plano West compared to Frisco Ind's .4%

[stephwin]

Where will you be working? Have you visited the area?

Let me start by saying 423 sucks. It's under construction (has been for years) and isn't close to being finished. I'm going to hazard a guess that you'll be working in Plano because it seems like most people moving here are. If so, your commute will be a lot longer than it appears it should via google maps. Even if you are commuting to Frisco, traffic is really bad and is made even worse by tons of school zones on major roads. Your north/south roads are somewhat limited and are always packed. Legacy is basically a parking lot some mornings.

There are tons of other options in better locations in the same price range if you really want to stay in Frisco ISD.

[gocubs418]

Depending on what you consider a long commute, born and raised DFWers refused commutes longer than 30 minutes, I have heard them say that is is torture.

Would it be ideal to have it less than 30 minutes? Sure. Necessary? No. IMO

As for the area, I sold out of Frisco Hills (right across the street), it's a bunch of nice, younger families, lots of indians (nothing against them, its what the demographics are).

423 and 380 suck. In the mornings, if you have to turn right on to 423, you will see cars forever. It will take you 30 minutes just to get to Panther Creek. If you turn left, you will get stuck for 20 minutes trying to turn right to get to the DNT. Currently, its a big cluster ****. I have high hopes that construction teams can finish it by end of this year.

There is going to be a lot of development up there in the next coming years, but you are 30 minutes from everything, closest thing is the gas station on Panther, even that will take you 30 minutes round trip.

There are a lot of nice people up there, down to earth, and then there is a lot of Jones's up there, living above their means. Some nut job parents who will yell at you for going the speed limit when they let their kid run in the street. But Estates on Rockhill is a different price range, you should get different folks.

[turf3]

You shouldn't call it an "Estate" unless it's big enough to have tenant farmers.

[UnfairPark]

That's exactly the reason builders use these terms, to add faux sense of grandeur.

[turf3]

1/5 acre, $650,000.

[turf3]

For half that you could buy a house in Lake Highlands and use the difference to pay 2 private school tuitions.

[UnfairPark]

These are the subdivisions which would go into foreclosures if market tanked.

[Telegan]

Originally Posted by lsuvaayu

Hello

We are planning to move to Dallas around June/July and are looking at Spec homes in Estates at Rockhill. Can you provide any insight about this community/location. We have two young kids and schools are a priority.

Thank you.

Where do you plan on working?
What type of drive times are you willing to accept?
Are you stay-at-home types or do you eat out often?
What other stuff can you tell?

If schools are your only priority, you'll probably be ok anywhere in Frisco in terms of high schools for the foreseeable future. I can't tell you what'll be going on in 10 years, so when you say you have 2 "young kids", keep that in mind.

As others have said, 423 is under heavy construction right now and will be for a while depending upon how far south you'll want to go. Access to the major freeway into the rest of Dallas (Dallas North Tollway, aka, "The Tollway") can be rough in the mornings from what I've seen, but may improve as time goes on. But again, this all depends on where you want to work and how often you want to "go out". Currently 380 is being built out and many "things" are and will be popping up along the corridor as it expands, but you'll have to put up with some traffic and construction in the meantime.

You'll have plenty of grocery shopping with Walmart, Kroger, etc. close by and Super Target, another Walmart, Super Target, Costco, and Market Street not too too far away.

I don't have any kids, but there's all kinds of kid-related stuff going on around Frisco, so you won't have much problem with locating that if that's a goal. There's also NBDL (NBA development league; Texas Legends), minor league baseball (Frisco Roughriders), Toyota Stadium, etc. in the area, as well as the Dallas Cowboys' headquarters, if you're into sports. There's also a railroad musem and the National Video Game Museum (I've never been) among other things. Unfortunately, the minor league hockey team moved.