Moving To Suffolk (Centereach, Selden, Holtsville: homes, high school, college)

[Kbinspections]

Stonybrook for $350,000? Maybe on a main road........

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Panther5766

I second South Setauket! With housing prices coming down you may find something in the Setauket or Stonybrook regions as well.

I'm not sure where you are from, but many places in South Setauket have gas. Make sure to get your cess pools inspected before you buy!!!

Stony Brook @ $380K is going to be mostly fixer-uppers or poorly located. With all of Stony Brook I would continue to wait and watch; prices are coming down. I wouldn't commit to a $380K fixer upper in this market.

South Setauket might be more reasonable/better condition @ $380K.

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Kbinspections

Stonybrook for $350,000? Maybe on a main road........

There's a cottage in Stony Brook on 25A for under $309K No property.
MLSLI.com - Find a Home

Searching MLSLI.com there are 7 homes listed in Stony Brook under $400K.

Two are on 25A, one on Hallock Rd & one on Oxhead Rd -- all busy roads.

One is on University Heights Dr which is the main access to an elementary school and is just off Stony Brook Rd

A second one on University Heights Drive appears to be off the school access portion of the road, Taxes aren't bad on this one -- $5900 with STAR -- it might be worth considering just to get into the area. MLSLI.com - Find a Home

Another is on Barker Drive, which is a main access road for the B section, just off Nicolls.

[Jrprofess]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

Stony Brook @ $380K is going to be mostly fixer-uppers or poorly located. With all of Stony Brook I would continue to wait and watch; prices are coming down. I wouldn't commit to a $380K fixer upper in this market.

South Setauket might be more reasonable/better condition @ $380K.

Not to impersonate the dearly departed Clamboy but South Setauket technically does not exist. It is Centereach...it seemed to me when some parts of Centereach got rezoned for Three Village schools then everybody decided that there town name had changed as well. I was hoping for North Centereach, but they went with Setauket....

[KellyFG]

Originally Posted by Jrprofess

Not to impersonate the dearly departed Clamboy but South Setauket technically does not exist. It is Centereach...it seemed to me when some parts of Centereach got rezoned for Three Village schools then everybody decided that there town name had changed as well. I was hoping for North Centereach, but they went with Setauket....

Things have never been the same since Clammie got the boot *sob, sob*
Where's walter with the official map?

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Jrprofess

Not to impersonate the dearly departed Clamboy but South Setauket technically does not exist. It is Centereach...it seemed to me when some parts of Centereach got rezoned for Three Village schools then everybody decided that there town name had changed as well. I was hoping for North Centereach, but they went with Setauket....

I was well aware of that fact prior to having made CB's online acquaintance.

The developers had to lobby the USPO (in the days before it was the USPS) to have the area designated 'South Setauket' yet retain the Centereach PO and have the mail handled through that PO.

I am not certain about the 'school rezoning' aspect of this -- that's the first I've ever heard of that. My neighbor's family has been here for a few hundred years -- I have to remember to ask her about that.

[rockypointny]

Originally Posted by KellyFG

Things have never been the same since Clammie got the boot *sob, sob*
Where's walter with the official map?

does anyone actually know what happened to clamboy?

[sean sean sean sean]

Originally Posted by rockypointny

does anyone actually know what happened to clamboy?

I'm curious myself.....I thought he was crazy at times but enjoyed BSing with him on here. Anybody know?

OhBeeHave - Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the "South Setauket" neighborhood nearly all Levitt homes? That'd mean they were built before ZIP codes existed, and probably why it was a big deal to change the name at the post office.....nowadays I don't think it matters what you write on a piece of mail at all as long as the robot machines can read the 5 digits at the end.

[Jrprofess]

Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean

OhBeeHave - Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the "South Setauket" neighborhood nearly all Levitt homes? .

I do not believe that is the case. I am pretty sure it has the same mish- mosh style of homes that most of that area (Centereach, Selden, Holtsville, Farmingville) has. In driving through the area that never really popped out at me.

As for the school rezoning comment I made earlier. I was relating a story that a friend of ours shared regarding her childhood home in Centereach having been rezoned for Three Village. I believe it was around 2000 give or take?? My comments about South Setauket gaining steam as a regional name were partially tongue-in-cheek based on the new school rezoning. I am still pretty positive though South Setauket does not really "exist" in a Walter Greenspan kind of way.... A quick glance at MLSLI lists all 38 of the South Setauket homes in Three village, and there are two in Centereach that appear to be that district as well.

[freedomjunkie]

You can buy an average/smaller new home for 350-380 1400 sq.ft in Rocky Point/Sound Beach 3BR 2 BTH Gar, taxes 6-7K. North Shore low crime, Good schools.

A fixer upper 280-320. same sq.ft.