[quote=Supagyrl88]We got our house in 2010 for $450k, our max limit. At the time, there were a bunch of fixer uppers for $330k and under and we gave up on those. Ours was new construction, rebuild so everything was new. We got lucky. It was us or a $430k cash offer. It’s not like we got our house dirt cheap, but we did put $90k down and were able to refinance for 3.5%. I know a lot of people choose to live up in north county for schools and such (clairemont is not known for its schools, we choices into UTC). We looked at del sur and didn’t like the high HOAs and basically no yard and neighbors staring into our windows. I will never get used to that. If you do decide to live in clairemont, stay away from Clairemont Mesa Blvd at least by 2 blocks! 🙂 good luck with your search.[/quote]
Just a note on schools. If your kid tests into Seminar programs, please look at both the UC seminar program (Spreckels) and the Clairemont program (Hawthorne Elem.) They both have strengths and weaknesses. We sent our kids from our UC school (Curie) to Hawthorne because we so impressed with the two Seminar teachers. That said – Spreckels has a good program also… I have to say that – my sister was just assigned to teach the 5th grade seminar class at Spreckels. 🙂 (She’ll be AWESOME.)
