Lake Highlands

[mrydel]

Sounds like a job for........wait for it..........drum roll..........LAKEHIGHLANDSPONY!!

[buckwheat]

Still a great area and can find a very nice house at a competitive price. Old Lake Highlands and the L streets have are the places to look. Can get double the house in that area compared to across white rock in Lakewood.

[ponyboy]

You've got two areas: Old Lake Highlands and Forest Meadows. I love the L streets too, make sure to check them out, but they are a good starter home or limited income retiree area IMO. How much you looking to spend? Do you have kids?

[mrydel]

Come to Sherwood Arkansas. I will sell you mine for $300,000 and throw in a housekeeper.

[White Helmet]

Come to Sherwood Arkansas. I will sell you mine for $300,000 and throw in a housekeeper.

housekeeper/wife?

[ponyboy]

Here's a good example of a home in the Forest Meadow area:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 4080?row=3

[mrydel]

Come to Sherwood Arkansas. I will sell you mine for $300,000 and throw in a housekeeper.

housekeeper/wife?

She is really nice.

[RebStang]

Come to Sherwood Arkansas. I will sell you mine for $300,000 and throw in a housekeeper.

Hmm... has Arkansas not gotten the memo yet? We're not allowed to sell people along with our houses anymore... kind of killed my home state's (Mississippi) economy.

[SoCal_Pony]

Well I will give you my perspective, this coming from someone who had countless high school friends who attended school there 35 years ago. I have also not lived in Dallas for the past 25 years.

The neighborhood has changed, and not for the better. Appears to be too heavy an inflow of low-income residents that has changed the complexion of Lake Highlands.

35 years ago, LH was part of the Richardson school system and the education was pretty good. You have 2 high school aged kids, check out the quality of the school system today, you may not like it.

And to respond to Buckwheat's comment that 'you can get double the house in that area compared to across white rock in Lakewood'. There is a lot of truth in this statement, but the reality is that divergence in price occurred as much due to the Lake Highland's area not appreciating as to the other neighborhoods appreciating. So the question to you is do you want to purchase a home in an area that is trending sideways/down.

I'll leave you with this last story. I was in Dallas 2 years ago and met with a friend who has lived in Lake Highlands for ages. We met at a Starbucks off Abrams. I shared with him a story about how my wife and kid and I went to a CVS? off Abrams & 635 the day prior and how surprised I was at the quality of customers inside the store. He smiled and told me his then-high school daughter was mugged in that very parking lot.

[SoCal_Pony]

Here's a good example of a home in the Forest Meadow area:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 4080?row=3

Nice home, but I noticed on a scale of 1-10, they graded LHHS a 4, only one point higher than Bryan Adams or WW Samuels, a school kids from Pleasant Grove attend. Both these schools scored 3's. Ouch!!!!

I 100% guarantee you Lake Highlands would have scored much higher 35 years ago.

Do the math on the cost of nearby private schools. Your money might be better spent on a nicer community.

Btw, when Toyota moved from LA to Dallas, a main reason they selected Plano over Dallas proper was the DISD.

[CalallenStang]

Here's a good example of a home in the Forest Meadow area:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 4080?row=3

Nice home, but I noticed on a scale of 1-10, they graded LHHS a 4, only one point higher than Bryan Adams or WW Samuels, a school kids from Pleasant Grove attend. Both these schools scored 3's. Ouch!!!!

I 100% guarantee you Lake Highlands would have scored much higher 35 years ago.

Do the math on the cost of nearby private schools. Your money might be better spent on a nicer community.

Btw, when Toyota moved from LA to Dallas, a main reason they selected Plano over Dallas proper was the DISD.

Last sentence is irrelevant as LH is in RISD

[ponyboy]

I moved to LH as a kid in 1972. Low income housing has been an issue over the years, though an enormous chunk of it was removed within the last five years or so with the project at Walnut Hill (Kingsley) and Skillman. I will say this. Other than the Park Citiies, I know of no better sense of common history and community than Lake Highlands. And the high school is solid, almost Mayberryish