I really can't find an area for my family to relocate to (Poway: rental, private school)

[mewzikguy]

Miramar Ranch and Jerebek Elem. schools are in Scripps area- - nice schools.

[Clevelandgal]

for what it is worth, if you are moving from a crappy (hot or cold) weather place you can cut your square footage by 25-50% since you will be spending a lot of time outside-as long as you do not live too far into east cty SD. We live downtown but spend more of our home waking hours outside on the patio than inside.

[Joy Bender]

San Elijo Hills

Please add this to your consideration. If your children are middle school or elementary school age the schools are phenomenal. When we relocated to SD our first interest was also Poway schools. Then after intensive research I found San Elijo Hills online and am very happy here. You can rent a very new beautiful home with a pool for your price range.

[JosephineBeth]

Originally Posted by Cagirl767

It looks like DH will get a job offer in the next couple of weeks, around Mira Mesa.

I've been looking online for months for housing rentals up to $3400 a month in Poway, Rancho Bernardo and Rancho Penasquitos and all of the rentals seem so rundown, outdated, neighbors' cars in disrepair, the front yards look unkempt, etc. The interiors, especially the kitchens, are very out of date. Is this just how it is there even in owner occupied homes: 70's and 80's cabinetry,*paneling!* (remember that from the 70's?), carpeting, overgrown half dead grass, indoor furniture outdoors? I really am perplexed that this is in $700,000+ neighborhoods. And the funny thing is that the worse the house, the less likely they are to accept a pet (We have a Chocolate Lab).

Or could some kind person please redirect me to another area or specific area that might suit us better? I don't know that I can be too "picky" though since there are only a few rentals available at one time.

Here in Phoenix, everyone's houses have granite, laminate flooring, HOAs for yard maintenance and aesthetics, even in the $200,000 neighborhoods.

This all seems really odd to me...

Welcome to San Diego! This has been my experience over 23 years I spent there (I just moved to MD) and I've rented all over the county. Rare is the landlord that has upgraded -- and be sure to meet the landlord and discuss repairs and emergencies BEFORE you sign. We had several landlords that wanted to "do their own work" rather than pay anyone to save money. As a result we washed dishes in our bathtub (Chula Vista), had sewer backed up in a shower and were forced to shower at the gym (Pacific Beach), had a broken gas line under a bedroom that caused the SDGE to be > $600 a month with a landlord that didn't want to fix that (Mira Mesa), and actually had a heater condemned by the Fire Department and forced to leave the home until the landlord fixed it (with literally the clothes on our back due to the massive amounts of Carbon Monoxide being put off..thanks that our daughter was in a back bedroom and o.k. and we had just turned it on a few hours earlier -- SDGE didn't note the leak or any issue when they inspected!) -- that was in Pacific Beach.

Not to just tell horror stories but to say that you have to READ the lease -- and be absolutely clear on all contingencies in San Diego. All the houses we lived in had old everything -- that's just what you get there in my experience.

So look for a newer area --- even an older house in a really nice area is, as you have noted, going to be "old" and not updated at all.

San Elijo might be a better option - it's new far as I remember. Look for the new developments that have been built since 2000 -- that's your best chance.

[Cagirl767]

Is San Elijo in San Marcos? That's the only thing I'm finding on Google maps. There's something in Carlsbad too.

I've found San Elijo Elementary in San Marcos on Great Schools.net.

I think that will be too far of a commute for dh though. Google maps is putting the drive at 36 minutes and a lot of it down the 5. DH is looking for under 25 minutes, tops.

Thank you both (and everyone so far)!

[Mushi]

Not to be witchy, but a 25 minute commute is a dream to most people living here. Even 36 minutes is below average...

[Cagirl767]

Well yes I realize that half an hour is a dream commute, but not my midwestern dh who is being a little unrealistic at the moment...

[Ragnar]

I'm having a brain skip right now. Can someone please remind me what a "DH" is? Thanks!

[loveautumn]

whatever those estimate say, add at least 15-30 minutes onto them realistically. Those estimate are with no cars on the road and the 15 is very heavy traffic.

[Movin-on-up2011]

Yep! The 15 is the WORST!!!