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Old 12-04-2009, 09:54 PM
 
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I am moving in June from Florida to Colorado. I was wondering if there were any good neighborhoods with houses, early 1900's in Denver like the Olde Town in Longmont, or Fort Collins. I am looking for a house in the price range 225,000. Most important, nice neighborhood. I would like to get the smallest house in the best neighborhood.The school district is not an issue, but I know the better the neighborhood, usually th better the school district. A 2/2 would work for me. I don't mind if I have to do some work on it.
Any imput would be appreciated.
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Old 12-04-2009, 10:11 PM
 
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Have you gotten in touch with a Realtor yet? Since those houses can be scattered (I know, I was looking just a few months ago), and the pricing will limit you quite a bit, you'll have Much better luck in having specific houses that are on the market to guide you. Unless you're dead set on finding a neighborhood and then waiting the weeks, months or possibly Years it would take for a house that's acceptable to you pop up on the market.

If you're not ready to buy though (as in, your financing is 100% settled, and you're ready to go under contract), there's no sense in looking. My realtor told me that 80% (or was it more) of people who look, find a place within 2 days. The rest within a week. We pushed that out to 10 days because it's a fight to get a house in that price range under contract (it's a zoo of a sellers market here right now).

Anyway, the round-about thing I'm trying to get to, is that the house we ended up buying met all but one of our main criteria (it was bigger than we wanted) and the vast majority of our minor wants, but in an area we never heard mentioned Anywhere online. Even knowing and digging around online now, there's next to no info on the area. It's completely overlooked, but our Realtor knew (and showed us about 5 homes in this neighborhood).

Brian
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Old 12-04-2009, 10:15 PM
 
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Most of the city of Denver dates from the turn of the century, and much of the city will definitely resemble Old Town Fort Collins. Check for other threads about popular Denver neighborhoods like Highlands, Washington Park, Park Hill, etc. There are dozens of those. As for your comment about schools, all of Denver is DPS, and its schools are definitely hit and miss, even in nicer neighborhoods.

If you're looking for something in the suburbs, several core areas of suburbs would fit the bill, check out Olde Town Arvada, "Old" Englewood (as in the original city of Englewood), and "Old" Littleton (ditto).
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Old 12-05-2009, 10:33 AM
 
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Start by checking out schools. Go to; www.schoolperformancemaps.com/co/ . You were right about the schools. Good neighborhoods tend to have good schools. This school sight will rate and show you exactly where the schools are. Then start your search out from there. Denver is more expensive than the suburbs, even though their taxes are lower it doesn't make up for the price diffference. You're also going to find a limited amount of single family detached homes, that don't need a lot of work for that price. You will find more in "iffy" neighborhoods.
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Old 12-05-2009, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Greeley, Colorado
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From my experience anything immediately north of Downtown until Interstate-70 is very old and highly Victorian in style (not unlike Olde Town Longmont, which i happen to be a resident of that city).
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