[vettestr]

Hello Gary,
I hope some of this will help but opinions of the best parts of town are like favorite colors. I lived on 17th street and the parkway for a few years and lived in Moon Valley (west of your location) for years. Now live at about 59th Ave and Greenway. Your choice mentioned is an older established area with average size yards and old enough to have outlived the ASSOCIATION FEES and C&C restrictions for the most part. You will have a fair size front and rear yard with maybe even a RV gate on the side possible. 3 bedrooms 2 baths a pool and nice landscape for $125K to $150K should be very easy to find. If you want a Paradise Valley or Scottsdale address forget that price!! Close to the freeways or the 101 and the 51 for the most part were built on top of existing housing and screwed up the value and view of those houses not to mention the resale value. Like any big city there are higher crime spots and bad parts of town but a little checking will tell you about those.
There are many new cookie cutter, 6 feet between houses, same color/theme houses with ASSociation Fees on newer construction around that are available. Some areas will cost an extra 25% for just the name. I agree that you do not want to live next door to the cousin of Jeff Foxworthy with weeds covering the tops of the old cars but hate asking permission from a self appointed GOD to install a sat. dish or what color I can repaint the trim on my house.
Good luck on the search and always look forward to a new Cobra in town. Jeff