[bosozoku]

Hello to everyone,

Been reading up on las vegas threads for a few months now and have decided among these places to buy a house. Our list goes from 1.Southern Highlands 2.Mountains Edge 3.Anthem 4.Summerlin (i dont know which zipcodes are better in summerlin) 5.NW 89131 area. We want to be close to the mountains but our budget is around 200K..We are used to big city life coming from socal Orange County..

Hehe sorry i am a californian who wants to get away from the highcost of living

Would be great if Olecapt,AAApool,DaddysM3,Pink,MOMMOM,JFKIII and others could give their thoughts about the places we have mentioned please.

Good and Bads on the areas mentioned? Thank You in advance for any advice or any opinions you may have at all.

[BUGBULLY]

Are working? If so, how far do you want to travel?

[bosozoku]

Originally Posted by BUGBULLY

Are working? If so, how far do you want to travel?

yes sir working around the strip area but also will be looking for second job around the vicinity....want to travel anywhere from 30 to 40 minutes the most..less if possible

thank you bug

[BUGBULLY]

Well 30 to 40 min. is nothing from all of those areas. Mountains Edge is pretty nasty right now with the road construction on Blue Diamond. But most of these areas are very good, and easily accessible by the 215. All are good neighborhoods. I would look at the houses availalbe in your price range, and see which houses you like the best. All areas the areas you mentioned have pretty much the same things.

[bosozoku]

Originally Posted by BUGBULLY

Well 30 to 40 min. is nothing from all of those areas.

so sorry a lil confused about that..meaning i have to travel longer or shorter than 30 to 40 mins?

thanks again bug

[Daddys///M3]

It may take a bit longer from 89131 as far as commuting goes, but the housing is less expensive on the edge of town. Southern Highlands has some reasonable housing and the commute would be considerably less, but the infrastructure (ingress/egress) is limited like Mountain's Edge (only 2 ways in/out). Mountian's Edge lacks shopping and dining as well as any reasonable traffic control system, lot's of REO's out there as well but definitely an up and coming area. None of these problems exist in Summerlin (plenty of shopping and dining, plenty of roads in and out) but of course is the most expensive area of the 4. As far as schools and general neighborhood demographics go, I would say that all 4 are very similar (not 100% about Mountain's Edge schools though). I live in 89131 and I absolutely love it, except for the commute (I work in 89119, SE of the strip). lHowever, coming from OC I don't think our paltry traffic will be much of an issue.

On another note, where in OC are you coming from? I was born in Fullerton, lived in Newport, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, spent some time in Laguna and Dana Point and ended up in San Diego. Don't miss the 60, 91, 55, or 57 during rush hour or on a weekend evening.

[olecapt]

All are workable. Summerlin is tough at 200K. You need the newer hard hit areas to get there.

89131 provides the best house per buck. Even better than Mountain's Edge.

Children involved? Then Summerlin or Anthem followed by 89131 than Southern Highlands and then Mountain's edge. None have "bad" schools.

Working South Strip? 89044 or 89141. The others all have longer commutes...though all the commutes are likely livable. It can be hard to get out of 89131 and 89178.

Name your poison....

[BUGBULLY]

Commute would be shorter, depending on what time of day you will be traveling. If you travel during the busy times you will run into traffic on the freeways.

[MomMom]

Originally Posted by bosozoku

Hello to everyone,

Been reading up on las vegas threads for a few months now and have decided among these places to buy a house. Our list goes from 1.Southern Highlands 2.Mountains Edge 3.Anthem 4.Summerlin (i dont know which zipcodes are better in summerlin) 5.NW 89131 area. We want to be close to the mountains but our budget is around 200K..We are used to big city life coming from socal Orange County..

Hehe sorry i am a californian who wants to get away from the highcost of living

Would be great if Olecapt,AAApool,DaddysM3,Pink,MOMMOM,JFKIII and others could give their thoughts about the places we have mentioned please.

Good and Bads on the areas mentioned? Thank You in advance for any advice or any opinions you may have at all.

Being you want to move close to the mountains, look at Lone Mountain area 89129, 89149, Summerlin 89138, 89144,89135, Rhodes Ranch-Southwest area 89148.Mountains Edge 89178, Anthem 89052,Whitney Ranch 89122, Centennial-Northwest 89131

There are pockets of nice neighborhoods right near Sunrise Mountain-French Mountain as well 89156, 89110,89142 but you need some local knowledge (a realtor) about where these nicer areas in these zipcodes are.

All above is basically the periphery of the entire valley, commute times are going to be within your stated preference.

While I think Southern Highlands is nice, to me, it seems "out there" with not too much development out that way yet. I also understand the Southern Highlands HOA is notoriously fiesty, Summerlin Association is not far behind that either. I like Mountains Edge as well, but it's not that developed yet and there aren't enough roads in the area as yet. It will come though.

Out of those areas, I'd go with Olecapt with the 89131 zip...Centennial Hills. New, lots of building going on, stores,restaurants, shopping galore..beautiful Montecito Town Center, brand new hospital, good bang for the buck and well within your travel criteria even though it's on the outer rim of the soup bowl.

Best advice to you...seek an experienced realtor like Olecapt. Knowledge of the valley is essential to someone like you. You listed and we replied with such a broad range of geographical areas of the valley, an expert's knowledge of and ability to show it all to you is invaluable.

Best of luck to you and welcome!

Oh, and by the way...jfkIII doesn't live here in Nevada...he lives in upstate New York, and since some of us met him here in Las Vegas on his vacation a few weeks ago...he has virtually disappeared!

Honestly, we had nuttin' to do with it...

[dynimagelv]

Originally Posted by MomMom

Oh, and by the way...jfkIII doesn't live here in Nevada...he lives in upstate New York, and since some of us met him here in Las Vegas on his vacation a few weeks ago...he has virtually disappeared!

Honestly, we had nuttin' to do with it...

I still think he's under a rockpile off Blue Diamond Road ....oh WAIT....that was Al Bramlet they found there....