salo, avoid stratford, that has to be one of the worst locations in the area and they aren’t discounting enough to compensate for the drawbacks, unfortunately someone driving around can’t always see the drawbacks.
1. It is adjacent to the high school and actually the student parking lot access is in front of those homes even though it seems like it is behind the high school the traffic is brutal during ingress/egress. The stadium is nice and new and seems to be always hosting an event, you will be a hundred feet away and hearing every play.
2. On the other side is the indian reservation. While the majority of the indians have moved off the reservation with their newfound wealth, those that remain in the backyard of stratford spend their free time firing weapons in the air and riding off road vehicle/dirtbikes about fifty feet from those homes. I jog that area and before the houses started construction, there was more than one occasion that I ducked when hearing gunshots. You can’t complain about the off road vehicles or noise because to the police because they don’t have infraction authority on the reservation, temecula codes don’t apply and junk cars, yard appliances, graffiti (while not at every house, it is at some) cannot be addressed by the city.
3. While it is technically in redhawk, it really isn’t as far as access. Access is off Pechanga parkway and the beautiful landscaping and waterfalls that everyone else and their guests drive through aren’t visible driving to stratford, they enter by driving past the casino.
4. In my opinion this will be the first tract to go under mid development and the next few years the neighbors will be empty lots. The built the first street and didn’t sell anything. They redesigned the models and started again. Their cancellation rate is probably 80% and they didn’t even build a sales office (a guy sits in the livingroom of one of the models and they use the sales office at hemmingway).
Based on the negatives I’ve listed I would not buy these even at 25% less than something a mile away and their prices don’t reflect that, even at 300k it’s not worth it. When the market was hot, things were built that shouldn’t have been, this is a prime example.
