Stonington Condos in Port Jeff Station (Centereach, Massapequa: real estate, foreclosures, lease)

[rocafeller05]

Yeah, guess Im naive then. We had many druggies, thugs & tough guys when I was in school. But I was raised not to get associated with those groups. And my parents controlled who I was with outside the school. But anyways...to the OP Port Jeff Station or Port Jeff schools you will be fine if your there as a parent.

Originally Posted by dman72

Does a student move around the hallways, the buses, the cafeteria in a bubble? If you think that the other students in a school have no effect on your child, you're being very...very... naive.

There is to some extent in all schools, an element that is anti-education. That element is larger in Comsewogue than in Three Village. It may have no effect on your kid what so ever. Yes, everything can be overcome by good parenting, and your kid can go to Three Village and end up being a heroin addict. We're not speaking in anecdotes here, we're talking about as a whole, in general, what schools are like.

[cleoprice]

Thanks for the input -- I am trying to find the perfect situation with respect to schools, affordability and location, and the three just don't seem to exist all together on a limited single-parent budget.
I have a good kid - I have to hope for the best --

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by cleoprice

Thanks for the input -- I am trying to find the perfect situation with respect to schools, affordability and location, and the three just don't seem to exist all together on a limited single-parent budget.
I have a good kid - I have to hope for the best --

This may be a great fit for you, give it a shot.

If it isnt what you need it to be I'd strongly recommend Sound Beach as your next best option near exit 63.

Best of luck in your hunt

Crooks

[S.I.B.]

Originally Posted by cleoprice

Thanks for the input -- I am trying to find the perfect situation with respect to schools, affordability and location, and the three just don't seem to exist all together on a limited single-parent budget.
I have a good kid - I have to hope for the best --

would it make sense to rent in the best possible district/area until your kid is out of school?

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by S.I.B.

would it make sense to rent in the best possible district/area until your kid is out of school?

Good point...only a few years left.


Crooks

[rocafeller05]

Then the market will be up again...well atleast everyone on here thinks so? What gives?

Originally Posted by S.I.B.

would it make sense to rent in the best possible district/area until your kid is out of school?

[cleoprice]

Good idea on the rent option -- but a mortgage is less expensive -- the rentals are over 2100 a month for something that has room for a home office -- not easy out there....thanks for your input.

[dman72]

Originally Posted by cleoprice

Good idea on the rent option -- but a mortgage is less expensive -- the rentals are over 2100 a month for something that has room for a home office -- not easy out there....thanks for your input.

Are you sure? Check the MLS rentals for 3 bedroom rental houses/apartments, then look at what you would pay comparably including taxes..and also remember that you don't have that mortgage on you shoulders if something doesn't work out..you have at the most a 1 year lease.

[Walter Greenspan]

cleoprice, according to the Census Bureau's online address search function, located at 475 Old Town Road, Stonington At Port Jefferson is in the Hamlet of Terryville ("Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776" mailing address). The geography of Terryville can be very confusing because Terryville is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet name in their mailing address.

Also, according to the Census Bureau's online address search function, the above address is in the Comsewogue Union Free School District.


For those who may not be familiar with Terryville:

Terryville is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the northwest part of the Town of Brookhaven, in the north-central part of Suffolk County.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Terryville in the Town of Brookhaven is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of Port Jefferson Station; on the east by the Hamlet of Mount Sinai and the Hamlet of Coram; on the south by the Hamlet of Selden and the Hamlet of Centereach; and, on the west by the Hamlet of Centereach and the Hamlet of Setauket-East Setauket.





Terryville is one of those many villages and hamlets on Long Island where none of the places in the community have the hamlet name in their mailing address: places in the Hamlet of Terryville have a "Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776", "Coram, NY 11727" and "Selden, NY 11784" mailing address.


For a good set of town-by-town maps showing all the villages and hamlets in each of LI's 13 towns (3 in Nassau County and 10 in Suffolk County): http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html

[AndreaII]

I had a friend who retired from teaching, got a divorce and bought a condo at Stonington all in one year - the condo was brand new. Her immediate neighbors were all women about her age (at the time she bought she was 55) and single/divorced. Whenever I went to her condo I never saw any kids around. That doesn't mean they don't exist, but the feeling I got was that retirees lived there.

Stonington is in the Comsewogue school district, not the Port Jefferson school district that serves the area around Port Jefferson village. Port Jefferson and Port Jefferson Station are two totally different areas - two totally different feels. I wouldn't hesitate with the Port Jefferson school district; but I would with Comsewogue. And no, Stonington is definitely not in Three Village even though the high school is on the same street - Old Town Road.

I like the sound of renting while your child finishes up school. That way you're not locked into anything. And as another poster said, if the unthinkable happens and you lose your job, then you won't lose your house you just bought (and paid high closing costs for that you won't get back). And ideally, yes, maybe buying would be the best bet in a perfect financial world where you have guaranteed job security (maybe you're a tenured teacher or something along those lines??? in which case buying really may be just the thing), but in this economic tsunami we're all struggling with (except for the teachers and public school administration and gov't. workers - lucky them, they're exempt from worry, although I really think things need to change there before they bankrupt all of the rest of us) renting may be the safest way to go, especially if you land in a school district that's lousy for your child and you need to move easily and quickly to a better district. You won't be able to make a quick change if you're owning a house (they're very hard to sell right now).

Personally, if I were in your shoes, I'd rent for a while, and that's coming from someone who believes in owning vs. renting. But right now rents are down, landlords are looking for good tenants and there are many many rentals up for grabs out there. Plenty of opportunity to make a deal on a place to live.