Why is this house so cheap? (Houston, Pasadena: low crime, neighborhoods, to buy)

[Beto]

Originally Posted by yesman

I have to know why this house is so cheap.

3703 Rolling Springs Ln, Katy, TX 77449-8159 - Bridgewater Village Katy

EasilyAmused - I expect an answer, I like your honesty.

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[southeasttexas]

Originally Posted by shank

First, it is in Katy....Seems like a lot of the people on here from Katy, are a little elitist.....

I didn't want to be the first to bring it up, but, you are exactly right. Katy has to be the most overrated community by far on here. The ones who just GUSH about the place are unrealistic, to say the least.

[Bily Lovec]

I always put katy after kingwood and the woodlands, just a notch better than pearland...

[EasilyAmused]

Uhhhh, I don't live in Katy, will never live in Katy. But as a native Houstonian it's the best located Master Planned Community.

[professorsenator]

Originally Posted by southeasttexas

Katy has to be the most overrated community by far on here. The ones who just GUSH about the place are unrealistic, to say the least.

I concur 100%. Katy is an unremarkable, flat-as-a-pancake sprawl of large but cookie-cutter houses on small lots. It exists only beacsue it is there; that is, the only reason people have settled there is because there are vast expanses of vacant land that major developers have bought on the cheap and filled with forgettable houses. Katy is essentially a conglomeration of housing tracts--make no mistake about it, all the highfalutin neighborhood signs and over-the-top street names cannot hide the fact that this is just another Levittown. These housing tracts are surrounded by the typical, unremarkable assortment of strip malls filled with box-box retail and chain food joints. And the commute to downtown on I-10 is the pits.

The epitome of the hollowness of Katy must be the Cinco Ranch beach, a synthetic park of trucked-in sand fronting a man-made pond. It is the quintessential polyester playground, as authentic as a three dollar bill.

[Topaz]

I've never been to Katy but I imagine the fake beach is a bit hit with toddlers and their parents. My children would love that.

[TXRyan23]

I prefer Katy.

[Wysiwyg]

Originally Posted by professorsenator

I concur 100%. Katy is an unremarkable, flat-as-a-pancake sprawl of large but cookie-cutter houses on small lots. It exists only beacsue it is there; that is, the only reason people have settled there is because there are vast expanses of vacant land that major developers have bought on the cheap and filled with forgettable houses. Katy is essentially a conglomeration of housing tracts--make no mistake about it, all the highfalutin neighborhood signs and over-the-top street names cannot hide the fact that this is just another Levittown. These housing tracts are surrounded by the typical, unremarkable assortment of strip malls filled with box-box retail and chain food joints. And the commute to downtown on I-10 is the pits.

The epitome of the hollowness of Katy must be the Cinco Ranch beach, a synthetic park of trucked-in sand fronting a man-made pond. It is the quintessential polyester playground, as authentic as a three dollar bill.

this whole plasticness/sweet lemon and sour graping is inherently houston

[EasilyAmused]

Originally Posted by professorsenator

I concur 100%. Katy is an unremarkable, flat-as-a-pancake sprawl of large but cookie-cutter houses on small lots. It exists only beacsue it is there; that is, the only reason people have settled there is because there are vast expanses of vacant land that major developers have bought on the cheap and filled with forgettable houses. Katy is essentially a conglomeration of housing tracts--make no mistake about it, all the highfalutin neighborhood signs and over-the-top street names cannot hide the fact that this is just another Levittown. These housing tracts are surrounded by the typical, unremarkable assortment of strip malls filled with box-box retail and chain food joints. And the commute to downtown on I-10 is the pits.

The epitome of the hollowness of Katy must be the Cinco Ranch beach, a synthetic park of trucked-in sand fronting a man-made pond. It is the quintessential polyester playground, as authentic as a three dollar bill.

Pretty much describes every xburb I've been too. They all have to be "created." Come on, realistically there was nothing there before so it has to be "made."

[southeasttexas]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

Pretty much describes every xburb I've been too. They all have to be "created." Come on, realistically there was nothing there before so it has to be "made."

I don't blame it for being "made", thats not the point. The point is how some just gush about what an increadibly great place it supposedly is. Thats terribly unrealistic. Katy is NOT "all that and a bag of chips"...