I believe the area you are looking at is called Tampico. Like most of the Westview neighborhood, it is essentially a large house on a very small lot. The Tampico area is better than the other areas around it and it probably has less of the houses rented than the other Westview areas, but it is still I would say pretty expensive…
There are maybe a couple of kid playgrounds in the subdivision, but there is a tennis court and playareas across the street.
The area itself is not bad, but there are a lot of fast drivers on Westview Parkway. The house is new, which is nice, but you may not like the really small backyard and the being only about 10-16 feet away from your neighbors.
I believe it is Scripps Ranch High School zoned, but the other schools (Hage Elementary and others) are a bit above mediocre, and are San Diego Unified Schools.
There has been a rising crime rate in the area.
I don’t know the specific HOA for Tampico, but I know the neighboring HOA is kind of strict. Not truly nazi, but it is strict. One thing to note: PARKING SUCKS. There are only a few parking spaces available and you cannot park on the street, the street being basically entirely marked as a fire lane. So if you are going to have guests, they will have to fight for parking within or park outside in Westview Parkway (where I passed by this place last year seeing a nice BMW SCRUNCHED because someone rear ended it while it was parked). Because of the limited parking, the HOA has to issue “parking decals” if your guests are going to be there for more than a few days and if they are going to be parking their car there. Oh, and as a resident, you certainly cannot park your car there for more than a day otherwise they will FINE you. So if you think that you can have a couple of people park their car there over Thanksgiving and be fine, well, you are wrong, they have ticketed people over the holiday. Admittedly, this did not happen in Tampico, but in a neighboring HOA, but I can’t imagine them not doing the same policy, considering how close the HOA’s are.
(full disclosure: one of my rental properties is in the neighboring HOA and my previous tenants were always getting nailed for parking because they had their girlfriends/boyfriends over and there wasn’t enough parking in the front of the property so they had to use the guest parking).
