[quote=bearishgurl]sdr, can you tell us if the new (Carlsbad?) dev. to be built by Pulte or the existing high-priced Copperwood Dev. viewed by pjwal lies within a MR Community Facilities District??
If so, these bonds go up with every new development, due to increasing construction costs. IMO, this is a HUGE negative financial repercussion to think about, pjwal, if you leave your old (seemingly decent) ‘hood in order to buy into new construction.[/quote]
The Copperwood MR was pretty low and the HOA $276 I believe. I guess there is very nice community facility with a pool we were not able to see. The Rockledge community will have access to this as well, but I wouldn’t be comfortable with my kids crossing Rancho Santa Fe road everytime to use it. We were astonished by the model homes in Copperwood, but I know that the neighborhood makeup of Del Sur is more of what we’re looking for simply because of the price of the Copperwood homes (also, it didn’t help seeing a childless couple, man in 50’s, woman in 20’s picking where all the flatscreen TV’s were going to go).
I don’t know, I guess what it really comes down to is that we simply want our kids to open their front door to a park and play with the neighbors, in a safe place and walk to school together. The next few phases of Madiera actually offer lots with a sidewalk between a park in front of your house. What am I missing here? We can’t “remodel” the cement out of our driveway and street of current home.
