Don’t know much about 4S except that they have some great soccer fields. I looked through the MLS to get some kind of feel for it since this drew so many responses and here’s my off the cuff takes:
1) Wow, the tax rate is very high. Almost 2% of the sales price.
2) Looking at the first 30 or so listngs about half are short sales, and quite a few others are RE agents selling their homes or Hovnanian closing out there homes. Looks like there was a lot of specualtion and a lot of 100% loans in 2003-2005. Maybe the “S” is for short sale.
3) Of the homes that are not short sales, just about everyone has “motivated” or “Owner needs to sell” in the confidential remarks. Those are some sharp agents helpng their sellers get top dollar. Geesh!
4) There are some decent size lots, but I noticed very few pools for a community that gets very hot for a good part of the year. Could this be because folks spent so much on the huse they didn’t have money left over for improvements? I know they have a community pool, but if you like to spend time in the water those get very tired after a while. Load up the kids, car, stuff, etc.
