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Your argument doesn't make sense at all. There will be always few homes selling for 1M in some pockets even if school is not very high in test scores. Now if you add high test scores then it's common sense that it will become more desirable. Your argument that school doesn't matter as long as commute is short is 100% wrong. RM has a good reputation, but houses are least expensive in Twinbrook despite being in RM and despite being walk to metro. Reason is simple, TB elementary school is very low performing school and that makes it undesirable for many parents with young kids despite being so close to metro.[/quote]

Twinbrook is undesirable because it has a collection of seriously ugly homes that not even their own builder could love. This is par for the course in Twinbrook:

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Rockville/5711-Ridgway-Ave-20851/home/10515337

It's also not a "nice" neighborhood. Garrett Park and the Town of Kensington will always be nice neighborhoods because of their parks and the quality of their housing stock. The flipside of that coin is that houses in Parkwood that are a long walk from any of the stores in Kensington and Metro might suffer because of location and the quality of their housing stock.

If you just focus on location your homes will appreciate regardless of any school changes. It is going to be increasingly expensive to live around here in 3-4 years, especially close to Metro, shops and within the Beltway. Amazon comes and it's game over.

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Garret Park has it's own set of ugly houses. There are nice ones and then there are ugly ones. Not as ugly as TB houses, but they are cheap looking red brick houses without any landscape. We had considered that area but decided to simply go for a townhouse in different neighborhood.[/quote]

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