RSF Farms might be your best deal. It has much easier access. I’d skip the Crosby and Cielo altogether. Driving around in Cielo is a real nuisance – it can take you 10 minutes to get back home even after you enter the gate.
If you have $3.5mil to spend it would pay to shop around a bit. The number of new homes on good sized lots out in that area vastly outstrip the number of sales, and there should even be a few never-lived-in foreclosures. A lot of the spec builders are going to lose their shirts out there, and their loss is your gain.
As far as prestige, there’s the Covenant areas and then there’s everything else. The Bridges is nice too but it’s still closer to FR than the Covenant in terms of prestige.
Truly, if you look around you should be able to rent. Renting will be but a fraction of what a mortgage payment would be. In a few years you’ll probably be able to get a lot more house for your money.
