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Hi Harry,

We just moved into the area you’re talking about.

Nearest I can tell there are two condo developments (Cortina and Bellarado) and one apartment complex in here. The Cortina units and Bellarado units are mixed in together into row home looking things w/ front stoops and garage alleyways.

Our unit is a Bellarado “townhome”. We’re just renters so I can’t speak to it being a good value to buy, but as a ‘hood in general I’m surprisingly liking it. I used to hate condo life due to thin walls and party animals. This place is well made, it’s got a laundry room and a HUGE storage unit in the garage – think of each unit as having three levels. Level one is garage, laundry room and storage unit, level two is living space and level three is bedrooms. I’m also all about having everything “new” these days because I’m sick of repair people having to come fix the old stuff at our other rentals. A/C unit is a dream, things look cleaner because they’re new and easy to maintain.

Living next to the Albertson’s shopping center is amazing…We can literally walk to the grocery store and other shops. There is also a good pizza/Italian place. Our other rentals in Scripps Ranch required a schlep to the stores – I’m getting spoiled living this close to the grocery store.

The complex is very pet friendly, we’ve only been here a few weeks and met lots of pet people, who seem very intent on cleaning up after their dogs – something we’re not used to but very grateful for.

We live here w/ our two dogs and 13 year old daughter. I’m still surprised that I like it so much, I’d been dreading going back to sharing walls but it’s oddly comforting and not at all like living in a hotel where you hear every sound your neighbor makes.

Oh, and almost forgot to mention, these builders or the building codes now take fire safety VERY seriously….There are fire sprinklers in every room, including the garage/storage area. The last townhome we lived in was built in 1993 so I guess things have come a long way in 16 years.

There are parks around as you head towards Santa Luz and RSF. The location near the 56 has made shooting to Poway for Target wonderful.

I believe your son would go to Willow Grove Elementary – a brand spanking new Poway Unified school over in Santa Luz next to one of the parks I mentioned.

Like I said, can’t speak to buying, but we love it here…Any questions, let me know.

Doublewide

[doublewide]

Hiya Scarlett,

I know these areas very well…and my husband did the commute to the UCSD/Torrey Pines area for years from this area… I suggest you check out a little pocket east of PQ, south of CRM called Sabre Springs. It’s right off the 56 at Ted Williams and the 15 at Poway Road so commute is a breeze. The whole community is basically east of 15 at Poway Road/PQ Blvd. exit, south of the 56, north of Scripps Poway Parkway and west of Iona Road in Poway proper. Sabre Springs is in 92128 zip and part of PUSD.

There is one group of homes built in 1988-ish north of Poway Road called Evening Creek and another development south of Poway Road called Creekside that was built in later 1990’s early 2000’s. Two elementary schools service the neighborhoods – Morning Creek Elementary and Creekside Elementary. Both wonderful schools although we’re partial to Morning Creek – they’ve got THE BEST kindergarten teacher in the world.

We lived in the area from 2001-2004 and still smack ourselves for selling that place but it was just too small at 1425 sf and I couldn’t live through an add on production. We’re still friends with our old neighbors there and I can’t say that about any other neighborhood we’ve lived in and we’ve lived in San Diego for 38 years except for two years in Temecula.

Creekside has a great park that backs up onto the elementary school property and while the Evening Creek devopment has no official “park” they do have a playing field at the bottom of the Morning Creek school property and bonus…no mellow roos. They do have an HOA that is 35.00/mo. I believe Creekside has mellow roos but can’t recall for sure. We used to use the Creekside park all the time and there is an entire Recreation center in CMR just on the other side of the 56 with tons of grass, playground equip., etc.

I should also mention another development in Sabre Springs called Belle Fleur. It’s split on both sides of Poway Road. These are larger homes, like 3000 sf range I believe and I believe they have mellow roos as well as HOA…it didn’t sound like what you were looking for but thought I’d mention it in case you want to check them out.

BTW, one thing to watch for is that one section of PQ is NOT in PUSD. Those homes along Mercy Road right off the 15, along with the condos at Black Mt. and Mercy are in San Diego Unified….we learned that the hard way back in 2001 when we owned a condo there having been promised it was PUSD…Even though those homes list as PQ and have the 92128 zip code they do not attened PUSD so before you buy in PQ make sure you check the address with PUSD to verify school district.

Good luck,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Hiya Scarlett,

I know these areas very well…and my husband did the commute to the UCSD/Torrey Pines area for years from this area… I suggest you check out a little pocket east of PQ, south of CRM called Sabre Springs. It’s right off the 56 at Ted Williams and the 15 at Poway Road so commute is a breeze. The whole community is basically east of 15 at Poway Road/PQ Blvd. exit, south of the 56, north of Scripps Poway Parkway and west of Iona Road in Poway proper. Sabre Springs is in 92128 zip and part of PUSD.

There is one group of homes built in 1988-ish north of Poway Road called Evening Creek and another development south of Poway Road called Creekside that was built in later 1990’s early 2000’s. Two elementary schools service the neighborhoods – Morning Creek Elementary and Creekside Elementary. Both wonderful schools although we’re partial to Morning Creek – they’ve got THE BEST kindergarten teacher in the world.

We lived in the area from 2001-2004 and still smack ourselves for selling that place but it was just too small at 1425 sf and I couldn’t live through an add on production. We’re still friends with our old neighbors there and I can’t say that about any other neighborhood we’ve lived in and we’ve lived in San Diego for 38 years except for two years in Temecula.

Creekside has a great park that backs up onto the elementary school property and while the Evening Creek devopment has no official “park” they do have a playing field at the bottom of the Morning Creek school property and bonus…no mellow roos. They do have an HOA that is 35.00/mo. I believe Creekside has mellow roos but can’t recall for sure. We used to use the Creekside park all the time and there is an entire Recreation center in CMR just on the other side of the 56 with tons of grass, playground equip., etc.

I should also mention another development in Sabre Springs called Belle Fleur. It’s split on both sides of Poway Road. These are larger homes, like 3000 sf range I believe and I believe they have mellow roos as well as HOA…it didn’t sound like what you were looking for but thought I’d mention it in case you want to check them out.

BTW, one thing to watch for is that one section of PQ is NOT in PUSD. Those homes along Mercy Road right off the 15, along with the condos at Black Mt. and Mercy are in San Diego Unified….we learned that the hard way back in 2001 when we owned a condo there having been promised it was PUSD…Even though those homes list as PQ and have the 92128 zip code they do not attened PUSD so before you buy in PQ make sure you check the address with PUSD to verify school district.

Good luck,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Hiya Scarlett,

I know these areas very well…and my husband did the commute to the UCSD/Torrey Pines area for years from this area… I suggest you check out a little pocket east of PQ, south of CRM called Sabre Springs. It’s right off the 56 at Ted Williams and the 15 at Poway Road so commute is a breeze. The whole community is basically east of 15 at Poway Road/PQ Blvd. exit, south of the 56, north of Scripps Poway Parkway and west of Iona Road in Poway proper. Sabre Springs is in 92128 zip and part of PUSD.

There is one group of homes built in 1988-ish north of Poway Road called Evening Creek and another development south of Poway Road called Creekside that was built in later 1990’s early 2000’s. Two elementary schools service the neighborhoods – Morning Creek Elementary and Creekside Elementary. Both wonderful schools although we’re partial to Morning Creek – they’ve got THE BEST kindergarten teacher in the world.

We lived in the area from 2001-2004 and still smack ourselves for selling that place but it was just too small at 1425 sf and I couldn’t live through an add on production. We’re still friends with our old neighbors there and I can’t say that about any other neighborhood we’ve lived in and we’ve lived in San Diego for 38 years except for two years in Temecula.

Creekside has a great park that backs up onto the elementary school property and while the Evening Creek devopment has no official “park” they do have a playing field at the bottom of the Morning Creek school property and bonus…no mellow roos. They do have an HOA that is 35.00/mo. I believe Creekside has mellow roos but can’t recall for sure. We used to use the Creekside park all the time and there is an entire Recreation center in CMR just on the other side of the 56 with tons of grass, playground equip., etc.

I should also mention another development in Sabre Springs called Belle Fleur. It’s split on both sides of Poway Road. These are larger homes, like 3000 sf range I believe and I believe they have mellow roos as well as HOA…it didn’t sound like what you were looking for but thought I’d mention it in case you want to check them out.

BTW, one thing to watch for is that one section of PQ is NOT in PUSD. Those homes along Mercy Road right off the 15, along with the condos at Black Mt. and Mercy are in San Diego Unified….we learned that the hard way back in 2001 when we owned a condo there having been promised it was PUSD…Even though those homes list as PQ and have the 92128 zip code they do not attened PUSD so before you buy in PQ make sure you check the address with PUSD to verify school district.

Good luck,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Hiya Scarlett,

I know these areas very well…and my husband did the commute to the UCSD/Torrey Pines area for years from this area… I suggest you check out a little pocket east of PQ, south of CRM called Sabre Springs. It’s right off the 56 at Ted Williams and the 15 at Poway Road so commute is a breeze. The whole community is basically east of 15 at Poway Road/PQ Blvd. exit, south of the 56, north of Scripps Poway Parkway and west of Iona Road in Poway proper. Sabre Springs is in 92128 zip and part of PUSD.

There is one group of homes built in 1988-ish north of Poway Road called Evening Creek and another development south of Poway Road called Creekside that was built in later 1990’s early 2000’s. Two elementary schools service the neighborhoods – Morning Creek Elementary and Creekside Elementary. Both wonderful schools although we’re partial to Morning Creek – they’ve got THE BEST kindergarten teacher in the world.

We lived in the area from 2001-2004 and still smack ourselves for selling that place but it was just too small at 1425 sf and I couldn’t live through an add on production. We’re still friends with our old neighbors there and I can’t say that about any other neighborhood we’ve lived in and we’ve lived in San Diego for 38 years except for two years in Temecula.

Creekside has a great park that backs up onto the elementary school property and while the Evening Creek devopment has no official “park” they do have a playing field at the bottom of the Morning Creek school property and bonus…no mellow roos. They do have an HOA that is 35.00/mo. I believe Creekside has mellow roos but can’t recall for sure. We used to use the Creekside park all the time and there is an entire Recreation center in CMR just on the other side of the 56 with tons of grass, playground equip., etc.

I should also mention another development in Sabre Springs called Belle Fleur. It’s split on both sides of Poway Road. These are larger homes, like 3000 sf range I believe and I believe they have mellow roos as well as HOA…it didn’t sound like what you were looking for but thought I’d mention it in case you want to check them out.

BTW, one thing to watch for is that one section of PQ is NOT in PUSD. Those homes along Mercy Road right off the 15, along with the condos at Black Mt. and Mercy are in San Diego Unified….we learned that the hard way back in 2001 when we owned a condo there having been promised it was PUSD…Even though those homes list as PQ and have the 92128 zip code they do not attened PUSD so before you buy in PQ make sure you check the address with PUSD to verify school district.

Good luck,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Hiya Scarlett,

I know these areas very well…and my husband did the commute to the UCSD/Torrey Pines area for years from this area… I suggest you check out a little pocket east of PQ, south of CRM called Sabre Springs. It’s right off the 56 at Ted Williams and the 15 at Poway Road so commute is a breeze. The whole community is basically east of 15 at Poway Road/PQ Blvd. exit, south of the 56, north of Scripps Poway Parkway and west of Iona Road in Poway proper. Sabre Springs is in 92128 zip and part of PUSD.

There is one group of homes built in 1988-ish north of Poway Road called Evening Creek and another development south of Poway Road called Creekside that was built in later 1990’s early 2000’s. Two elementary schools service the neighborhoods – Morning Creek Elementary and Creekside Elementary. Both wonderful schools although we’re partial to Morning Creek – they’ve got THE BEST kindergarten teacher in the world.

We lived in the area from 2001-2004 and still smack ourselves for selling that place but it was just too small at 1425 sf and I couldn’t live through an add on production. We’re still friends with our old neighbors there and I can’t say that about any other neighborhood we’ve lived in and we’ve lived in San Diego for 38 years except for two years in Temecula.

Creekside has a great park that backs up onto the elementary school property and while the Evening Creek devopment has no official “park” they do have a playing field at the bottom of the Morning Creek school property and bonus…no mellow roos. They do have an HOA that is 35.00/mo. I believe Creekside has mellow roos but can’t recall for sure. We used to use the Creekside park all the time and there is an entire Recreation center in CMR just on the other side of the 56 with tons of grass, playground equip., etc.

I should also mention another development in Sabre Springs called Belle Fleur. It’s split on both sides of Poway Road. These are larger homes, like 3000 sf range I believe and I believe they have mellow roos as well as HOA…it didn’t sound like what you were looking for but thought I’d mention it in case you want to check them out.

BTW, one thing to watch for is that one section of PQ is NOT in PUSD. Those homes along Mercy Road right off the 15, along with the condos at Black Mt. and Mercy are in San Diego Unified….we learned that the hard way back in 2001 when we owned a condo there having been promised it was PUSD…Even though those homes list as PQ and have the 92128 zip code they do not attened PUSD so before you buy in PQ make sure you check the address with PUSD to verify school district.

Good luck,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Each time we bought a place we had the seller buy a 1 year home warranty plan as part of the purchase contract. The costs varied from about 100.00 for a condo in 1999 to 350.00 for a mcmansion in 2004.

All three times (one condo and two houses) we had small things that went wrong. A remote control fan stopped working, a toilet leaked (bad wax seal thingy), dishwasher died, A/C unit had a fit, all within that magical 1st year. All these things were promptly fixed by the warranty company and cost us a $10-15 “co-pay”.

We had all our places inspected by very good home inspectors but the warranty was just an added layer of security. Inspectors would never have been able to catch the things that went wrong with our places, they were just due to age and could have gone at any time.

After the seller purchased, first year was up we never renewed. It always seemed like they’d send us a renewal for 3 times the amount the original plan had cost the seller. For me to pay a 900.00 premium for a 1 year service plan was nuts. My dishwasher, oven and microwave would all have to blow up for the cost to break even!

FWIW, the provider we used in the last two homes was Old Republic and they did do good repairs in a timely manner. I can’t remember who we used for the condo in ’99.

Hope this helps,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Each time we bought a place we had the seller buy a 1 year home warranty plan as part of the purchase contract. The costs varied from about 100.00 for a condo in 1999 to 350.00 for a mcmansion in 2004.

All three times (one condo and two houses) we had small things that went wrong. A remote control fan stopped working, a toilet leaked (bad wax seal thingy), dishwasher died, A/C unit had a fit, all within that magical 1st year. All these things were promptly fixed by the warranty company and cost us a $10-15 “co-pay”.

We had all our places inspected by very good home inspectors but the warranty was just an added layer of security. Inspectors would never have been able to catch the things that went wrong with our places, they were just due to age and could have gone at any time.

After the seller purchased, first year was up we never renewed. It always seemed like they’d send us a renewal for 3 times the amount the original plan had cost the seller. For me to pay a 900.00 premium for a 1 year service plan was nuts. My dishwasher, oven and microwave would all have to blow up for the cost to break even!

FWIW, the provider we used in the last two homes was Old Republic and they did do good repairs in a timely manner. I can’t remember who we used for the condo in ’99.

Hope this helps,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Each time we bought a place we had the seller buy a 1 year home warranty plan as part of the purchase contract. The costs varied from about 100.00 for a condo in 1999 to 350.00 for a mcmansion in 2004.

All three times (one condo and two houses) we had small things that went wrong. A remote control fan stopped working, a toilet leaked (bad wax seal thingy), dishwasher died, A/C unit had a fit, all within that magical 1st year. All these things were promptly fixed by the warranty company and cost us a $10-15 “co-pay”.

We had all our places inspected by very good home inspectors but the warranty was just an added layer of security. Inspectors would never have been able to catch the things that went wrong with our places, they were just due to age and could have gone at any time.

After the seller purchased, first year was up we never renewed. It always seemed like they’d send us a renewal for 3 times the amount the original plan had cost the seller. For me to pay a 900.00 premium for a 1 year service plan was nuts. My dishwasher, oven and microwave would all have to blow up for the cost to break even!

FWIW, the provider we used in the last two homes was Old Republic and they did do good repairs in a timely manner. I can’t remember who we used for the condo in ’99.

Hope this helps,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Each time we bought a place we had the seller buy a 1 year home warranty plan as part of the purchase contract. The costs varied from about 100.00 for a condo in 1999 to 350.00 for a mcmansion in 2004.

All three times (one condo and two houses) we had small things that went wrong. A remote control fan stopped working, a toilet leaked (bad wax seal thingy), dishwasher died, A/C unit had a fit, all within that magical 1st year. All these things were promptly fixed by the warranty company and cost us a $10-15 “co-pay”.

We had all our places inspected by very good home inspectors but the warranty was just an added layer of security. Inspectors would never have been able to catch the things that went wrong with our places, they were just due to age and could have gone at any time.

After the seller purchased, first year was up we never renewed. It always seemed like they’d send us a renewal for 3 times the amount the original plan had cost the seller. For me to pay a 900.00 premium for a 1 year service plan was nuts. My dishwasher, oven and microwave would all have to blow up for the cost to break even!

FWIW, the provider we used in the last two homes was Old Republic and they did do good repairs in a timely manner. I can’t remember who we used for the condo in ’99.

Hope this helps,
Doublewide

[doublewide]

Each time we bought a place we had the seller buy a 1 year home warranty plan as part of the purchase contract. The costs varied from about 100.00 for a condo in 1999 to 350.00 for a mcmansion in 2004.

All three times (one condo and two houses) we had small things that went wrong. A remote control fan stopped working, a toilet leaked (bad wax seal thingy), dishwasher died, A/C unit had a fit, all within that magical 1st year. All these things were promptly fixed by the warranty company and cost us a $10-15 “co-pay”.

We had all our places inspected by very good home inspectors but the warranty was just an added layer of security. Inspectors would never have been able to catch the things that went wrong with our places, they were just due to age and could have gone at any time.

After the seller purchased, first year was up we never renewed. It always seemed like they’d send us a renewal for 3 times the amount the original plan had cost the seller. For me to pay a 900.00 premium for a 1 year service plan was nuts. My dishwasher, oven and microwave would all have to blow up for the cost to break even!

FWIW, the provider we used in the last two homes was Old Republic and they did do good repairs in a timely manner. I can’t remember who we used for the condo in ’99.

Hope this helps,
Doublewide

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jpinpb,

I really like the parenthesis (assuming they are original to the text) where the scammer could fill in the blanks in his scam “form letter”. Do you think MS Word offers this as a template when writing a letter these days?

FLU,

That was hilarious. How did you find that story? My husband is gonna love that one…he’s the “geek” in the family, this is right up his alley. I love the on the ground recon. That story put a smile on my face for the week.

Doublewide

[doublewide]

jpinpb,

I really like the parenthesis (assuming they are original to the text) where the scammer could fill in the blanks in his scam “form letter”. Do you think MS Word offers this as a template when writing a letter these days?

FLU,

That was hilarious. How did you find that story? My husband is gonna love that one…he’s the “geek” in the family, this is right up his alley. I love the on the ground recon. That story put a smile on my face for the week.

Doublewide

[doublewide]

jpinpb,

I really like the parenthesis (assuming they are original to the text) where the scammer could fill in the blanks in his scam “form letter”. Do you think MS Word offers this as a template when writing a letter these days?

FLU,

That was hilarious. How did you find that story? My husband is gonna love that one…he’s the “geek” in the family, this is right up his alley. I love the on the ground recon. That story put a smile on my face for the week.

Doublewide

[doublewide]

jpinpb,

I really like the parenthesis (assuming they are original to the text) where the scammer could fill in the blanks in his scam “form letter”. Do you think MS Word offers this as a template when writing a letter these days?

FLU,

That was hilarious. How did you find that story? My husband is gonna love that one…he’s the “geek” in the family, this is right up his alley. I love the on the ground recon. That story put a smile on my face for the week.

Doublewide

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