How to search for homes in The Woodlands, TX

[EasilyAmused]

Originally Posted by DejaBlue

LOL, no! I can't imagine why parents would want to be on the same floor with the kids. How will the kids get siblings if mom and dad are a few walls away? When they're >6 then don't know. But especially those parents with the huge gaps i.e. a 15, 14, 12 and a 2 year get to business downstairs. Those older ones don't need to be on the same floor with y'all. LOL.


If the kids are little most have a smaller house. You know 11x14 master, a 10x10 and 11x12 in the Heights or something then those suckers get big and go to school and brings noisy friends home and stuff and they move to the burbs so the kids can spread the crap out and wreck they're space away from mom and dad's sanctuary. The moms I know say the downstairs is mine (mom's) , dad gets the recliner and the upstairs is all yours (the kids).

That's why gamerooms are upstairs I think.

Wow...
Ya...no one is wrecking, or not cleaning up, anything I own...especially the kids. but I knew many parents that never went upstairs in The Woodlands...

Leaving teens alone upstairs THESE days is a bad idea....just saying. involvement is huge, dont let a floor plan stop you. they just might turn into the famous playground burners, pine tree choppers, bulldozer burners, and bored tired slashers in Sterling Ridge Village.

[DejaBlue]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

Wow...
Ya...no one is wrecking, or not cleaning up, anything I own...especially the kids. but I knew many parents that never went upstairs in The Woodlands...

Leaving teens alone upstairs THESE days is a bad idea....just saying. involvement is huge, dont let a floor plan stop you. they just might turn into the famous playground burners, pine tree choppers, bulldozer burners, and bored tired slashers in Sterling Ridge Village.

LOL, I was kidding.

[colcat]

Gee, when I was trying to sell my house, the biggest complaint was that the master was upstairs.

[crone]

There is a slot on the HAR where you can specify master up or down. Scroll down on the bedroom specification.

Master up is usually cheaper.

[chris_ut]

Very few homes in Houston have a Master up. If you want all rooms on the same level get a 1 story.

[crone]

There are currently 60 homes in The Woodlands with all bedrooms up. Don't let the prices of the first few scare you off.

[DejaBlue]

Originally Posted by chris_ut

Very few homes in Houston have a Master up. If you want all rooms on the same level get a 1 story.

Exactly.

Originally Posted by crone

There are currently 60 homes in The Woodlands with all bedrooms up. Don't let the prices of the first few scare you off.

How old are those? I'm thinking first gen Woodlands houses circa 1980s and late 70s because everything newer mostly has the master downstairs. At least ones no older than 15 years.

Edit: I don't think so. For $5mil the master should be downstairs in a split level. But that house looks like a TX version of the Kennedy Compound.

[crone]

For 5 mil, it should have a room for the night nanny.

When we first came back to Houston a long time ago, I wanted what I was used to in Webster Groves Mo. Center hall colonial.

I finally found one and bought it. I discovered people here never used their living rooms and rarely used the dining room. There were no basements. Houses did not need big yards for a septic tank and and folks never went outside due to either heat or mosquitos. We live differently here.

If the kids are toddlers that's a lot of up and down. But, how long do you intend to keep that house?

My daughter had a problem with her first house and tiny kids. She thought it was too big. Fifteen years later, all those big boys and drums and guitars and pianos and trains, she is thinking of adding on, or building her a room over the garage.