Newbie (Phoenix, Avondale, Goodyear: buying a home, buying, live)

[Cpywell]

Hi everyone i would like to introduce myself, I am claire and 33 years old. We moved to Spain last year from the UK, before we did this move we have spoken about moving to Arizona. We are still talking about moving to Arizona in the future not the immediate future but sometime in the future. I would like some information on the best places to visit to look into buying property in Arizona. Neither of us have been to Arizona at all but we are looking at spending a few months touring round and really would like to know the best family areas to look at.

Thankyou all for spending time reading this

Claire

[Cpywell]

Hi update we have just been looking at a property in Goodyear AZ, can anyone tell me whether this area is a okay area or not please

[ArkLexee]

We have friends who spend winters in Arizona and they love it!! I've never heard of the area of which you speak but I'm sure someone here can help you out.

[Runemaster]

Originally Posted by Cpywell

Hi update we have just been looking at a property in Goodyear AZ, can anyone tell me whether this area is a okay area or not please

Goodyear is wonderful. We've lived here for a long time and have always thought highly of the city. It has a lot of new shopping/dining etc, several great churches and it's easy to hit downtown Phoenix if necessary and only 30 mins from the airport (w/o rush hour traffic, that is...).

[Cpywell]

Thankyou very much for your advice, we quite liked to look for what we saw of Goodyear, we are planning on coming to visit AZ so we can look around at the areas we like the look of. Thanks again

[Finger Laker]

there are a lot of us goodyear people here - if you are coming out for a visit, stop by the board before hopping on the plane and ask for suggestions on things to see, do, eat, etc

there are a ton of options and a lot of great local knowledge here

[Cpywell]

Hi we have been looking at Goodyear and have had some good comments back, does anyone know anything about the following places:
Avondale
Lichfield Park
Tolleson
Cashion

Any information is much appreciated thank you

[Finger Laker]

i would avoid all of tolleson - you'd be better off in avondale in the avondale rd/van buren area

i don't know much about cashion

pending on where you live within the cities the commutes into the city could be a little longer from goodyear/lp, but not by a whole lot and not enough to offset the advantages they hold over avondale and tolleson

[Cpywell]

Thankyou very much for your help, there is one more thing i dont know if you could help me with. If we decided to buy a property in Goodyear as a holiday home to start with do you have any idea what we would have to do e.g visa etc we wouldnt be moving there for another 4/5 years but we could buy one in the next year and move there later (just use as a hol home to start with)

Thanks

[Finger Laker]

That I honestly wouldn't know where to start - i know nothing about the process and laws of foreign nationals (or US nationals with long term residences abroad) buying a home in the US and/or AZ

I'm pretty sure it can be done without too much extra difficulty though

Maybe someone else can chime in with some experience there.

In AZ it's fairly common to have part time residents, so it's not something the state/service providers wouldn't be able to deal with pretty routinely