Anthem (Phoenix, Gilbert, Carefree: for sale, foreclosures, waterpark)
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Can I get some input from people currently living in Anthem? How bad is the foreclosure problem. There are literally hundreds of houses for sale that are less than half the price of new builds. Are people visibly down? How well do the people living there interact? Do you use the community center and pool? I lift weights and my wife is into yoga and exercise. Is there a day care for kids if you use the gym? How is the HOA? I notice most have a private H2O company. Is that an issue. Are utilities expensive. what is included in the HOA fee? Trash removal? Is it cooler in the summer especially at night? Less smog? More stars? It looks like a nice place to raise kids with the trade off being a longer ride to work. We drove through last January and it is very clean and we liked the Anthem Mall. Please give an honest opinion. Would you move there again if you could change the past?
Can I get some input from people currently living in Anthem? How bad is the foreclosure problem. There are literally hundreds of houses for sale that are less than half the price of new builds. Are people visibly down? How well do the people living there interact? Do you use the community center and pool? I lift weights and my wife is into yoga and exercise. Is there a day care for kids if you use the gym? How is the HOA? I notice most have a private H2O company. Is that an issue. Are utilities expensive. what is included in the HOA fee? Trash removal? Is it cooler in the summer especially at night? Less smog? More stars? It looks like a nice place to raise kids with the trade off being a longer ride to work. We drove through last January and it is very clean and we liked the Anthem Mall. Please give an honest opinion. Would you move there again if you could change the past?
Anthem is nice, but I don't see how anyone would consider living out there. You are 15 minutes north of phoenix, so if you have a job in Phoenix you have a good commute ahead of you.
There is a lot of stores around there though, mostly south at Carefree Hwy. There is a walmart just across the freeway from Anthem, and a outlet mall.
The area is nice, low crime for the most part, great community for families. My family lives up there.
Anthem is nice, but I don't see how anyone would consider living out there. You are 15 minutes north of phoenix, so if you have a job in Phoenix you have a good commute ahead of you.
There is a lot of stores around there though, mostly south at Carefree Hwy. There is a walmart just across the freeway from Anthem, and a outlet mall.
The area is nice, low crime for the most part, great community for families. My family lives up there.
I've been there. I'm looking for a sense of the community and some other specifics as written in my first post. Any insight to those issues?
Can I get some input from people currently living in Anthem? How bad is the foreclosure problem. There are literally hundreds of houses for sale that are less than half the price of new builds. Are people visibly down? How well do the people living there interact? Do you use the community center and pool? I lift weights and my wife is into yoga and exercise. Is there a day care for kids if you use the gym? How is the HOA? I notice most have a private H2O company. Is that an issue. Are utilities expensive. what is included in the HOA fee? Trash removal? Is it cooler in the summer especially at night? Less smog? More stars? It looks like a nice place to raise kids with the trade off being a longer ride to work. We drove through last January and it is very clean and we liked the Anthem Mall. Please give an honest opinion. Would you move there again if you could change the past?
From what I have seen, there is a lot of houses for sale, go down any given street and you will find many houses for sale. Visibly, the houses look fine for the most part.
I used to go to the community center ALOT, they have an excellent gym, I like the bikes that have the screens, you can watch TV and go online and everything. The pools are great, nice waterpark for kids, good lap pool and diving boards.
There is much less smog in anthem, since you are out of the main city area. It is also a little colder up there on average.
If I could find a job in north phoenix, or even anthem, I would personally love to live up there.
Anthem is nice, but I don't see how anyone would consider living out there. You are 15 minutes north of phoenix, so if you have a job in Phoenix you have a good commute ahead of you.
There is a lot of stores around there though, mostly south at Carefree Hwy. There is a walmart just across the freeway from Anthem, and a outlet mall.
The area is nice, low crime for the most part, great community for families. My family lives up there.
This is true.....I almost moved up there but the crazy scary thing is....there's only one fast way in and one fast way out...the 17. If there's a wreck (which is like every other day) on that freeway traffic backs up for miles which makes getting home a B**** Of course there are back ways and side roads but that still adds more time to your commute.....otherwise, it's nice...some of the neighborhoods in Anthem could use some serious attention but other than that.....
There is a back way from carefree down to happy valley which sometimes is faster than the 17. But getting from carefree to anthem still requires the 17 I believe?
From what I have seen, there is a lot of houses for sale, go down any given street and you will find many houses for sale. Visibly, the houses look fine for the most part.
I used to go to the community center ALOT, they have an excellent gym, I like the bikes that have the screens, you can watch TV and go online and everything. The pools are great, nice waterpark for kids, good lap pool and diving boards.
There is much less smog in anthem, since you are out of the main city area. It is also a little colder up there on average.
If I could find a job in north phoenix, or even anthem, I would personally love to live up there.
Is anyone familiar with the master planned Del Webb Anthem community around N. Gavillan Peak Pkwy, are there alot of foreclosures around that area, is it a good area for kids, and how far away from the 17.
The HOA's are high. I believe $200+ per month? The HOA's are HOA Nazi's. I know someone who lives there. They got fined for having ONE dandelion weed. No joke. The HOA also has private security that runs radar and will issue citations for speeding.
Also, it takes around 15 minutes to navigate around the streets to just get in. It is not an easy in/easy out area. I-17 traffic is horrid.
The area really took a hit. Back in 2000, the avg. price per sq.ft was $96. It peaked at $200 sq.ft. in 2006 and now it is hovering around $96 sq.ft.
Traffic north on the I-17 out of Phoenix at night is stop and go at best, Friday night and Saturday morning everyone is heading out of town. If you have to drive in that traffic to get home from work (depending on where your job location is at) ~ it would be a nightmare.
I-17 is and will be the only way in & out of Anthem for a while. It may take years now to get the other outer loop around Phx going to help relieve traffic and provide an alternative route.
I’ve heard horror stories about houses build during the beginning time when Anthem got started where the foundations cracked, houses moved and footings failed. Not just in Anthem but elsewhere in the suburbs around Phx. Builders finally got a handle on their problem and corrected it with the much newer homes. There was a soil problem that wasn’t good for the type of construction then. I believe Gilbert also has and had the same type of issue with new homes.
I’ve heard horror stories about houses build during the beginning time when Anthem got started where the foundations cracked, houses moved and footings failed. Not just in Anthem but elsewhere in the suburbs around Phx. Builders finally got a handle on their problem and corrected it with the much newer homes. There was a soil problem that wasn’t good for the type of construction then. I believe Gilbert also has and had the same type of issue with new homes.
A home MUST BE built on a "Post tension slab". That is a mandatory item that cannot be overlooked. The soil expansion rates are bad and without a post tension slab, you are looking at serious trouble.
I do know that any of the newer homes in Anthem were built using post tension slabs.
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Of course there are back ways and side roads but that still adds more time to your commute.....otherwise, it's nice...some of the neighborhoods in Anthem could use some serious attention but other than that.....
