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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should also look in Rosemont, Walnut Hill, Washington Grove, Derwood Station, Summit Hall and the Gaithersburg Town Center area-many affordable homes and lots of new development near the Shady Grove Metro.  ES's are good and the HS is improving.  Saybrooke is also another nice neighborhood.  And Quail Valley.  Gaitherburg HS is a bit better than Watkins Mill.[/quote]

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QV poster here (that is not me above with the "yes" response).  Quail Valley Blvd is one big horseshoe with Strawberry Knoll ES, so I walk by those homes every evening on my walk  :) The one downside to a lot of the homes actually on QV Blvd is that many of them were built in pairs.  I don't really know how to describe it, or if there's an official term for it, but there's one house with a short driveway, right next to house with a long driveway, and the short driveway house's backyard is pretty much the long driveway house's front yard (look at Google maps and you'll see what a mean).  But they're not all like that, and I guess it wouldn't bother some people.

We originally paid $230k for our townhouse.  THs on our cul-de-sac have been going for about $270-280k, so I don't think the foreclosures have hurt the home value much.  There were a few homes on QV that were bought by obvious flippers, so if they were foreclosures, the turnaround was quick.  I haven't noticed a plethora of abandoned homes or anything.

When we bought our house, we really thought it was just going to be our "first house" and didn't even think much about the schools.  But it's been 7 years now and the thought of leaving--even for a bigger home--makes us sad, so when we're ready, we'll be looking to stay in this community, or at the very least this school.[/quote]

We looked at the QV properties this weekend and tbh, just weren't impressed with the condition of the homes we visited. We realize that it would be a lot of work and expenses to bring it up to updated standards in the kitchen, bathrooms which would more or less have to be gut jobs, and a lot of yard work. We did like the neighborhood though, saw many people out and about with their dogs on leashes, and children riding bikes or running around. We like the area for what it is, but we were just not enchanted with the homes itself. I see what you meant about the driveways, that was a bit odd, but it doesn't bother us as much as the interior condition of the homes. It seems like every house for sale decided to price at their comps across the board, but some homes are clearly not worth that value of $349 for what was going on inside. One literally had a huge mold smell hit us as we walked in!

We did look at a TH on Hummingbird, the price was well below our budget so that was attractive, but once we were inside we realized the kitchen was non functional and old. The basement was not finished, and the neighbor's music 2 doors down could be heard through the walls of the house we walked through. Also, directly adjacent to the property was a home that looked like it had been in a recent fire -- any info what happened there? It doesn't look like it did damage to the neighbors home, but it def. made us uncomfortable looking at the house all boarded up.

I did like the ES when we drove by it, SKES. If it's a focus school does that mean it may become a title 1 school? [/quote]

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