When you are house hunting....

[EthansMom]

For us, the #1 thing has always been the reputation of the schools that the neighborhood was districted into. This is strictly a tactic for resale...people will pay for good schools. It doesn't matter if you don't have kids. Good schools sell houses IMHO, so that should be a huge factor on anyone's list if they ever plan to resell the house in the future.

I totally agree!

We look for a good school district first -- especially now that we have kids who will be attending public school.

Then we look for a house. We look for a good neighborhood when we're looking at the houses.

Third would be the lot. DH and I both prefer to have at least one acre. With our current house, the lot was 1.65 acres, but it was completely wooded with no grass or play area. We bought the house anyway and then paid to have some trees removed, some of the land regraded and seeded with grass.

 

[golfgal]

For us school is #1. In our possible move we have narrowed it down to 3 towns, all have great schools, now on to our #2 priority a private or semi-private golf course that is a good course-we love to golf and for the number of rounds our family puts in over a summer a membership is the only way to go. Third would be the house/neighborhood. We have owned enough homes and have pretty specific ideas of what we like and don't like in a home. As for the yard, it could make or break a deal for us. We want a comfortable sized yard, not too small, not too big. If it were a smaller yard but another play area, school/park was close by, that would be ok.