Move to Carson in Oct.

[Sonic03svtCobra]

Reporting to 10th soon just out the Q-course. Looked around on the 10th forum only saw one link about places to live posted early 2008.
Looking in the Monument, Fountain and Pueblo West area, biggest concerns are schools for my kids, looking to spend around $250, large yard preferred with a build no more then 5 years old. I`ve looked on all the realtor pages but it still doesn`t give a good feel of the areas. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[JJ_BPK]

No local knowledge, but a suggestion.

I have use Zillow and find it accurate and timely. It's a search engine for real estate.

You can use Zip codes, or town/cities as a delimiter, or a specific address. They list most if not add MLS listings, also 4salebyowners.. You can use filters to limit the hits, like # of BR & BA or price,, condo -vs- apt -vs- individual homes.

I have found that using the filters is iffy.. It can only find what the agent enters,, so if they don't list the home correctly you can't find it.

www.zillow.com

If you find a place via zillow,, take the MLS # to google and find the listing agent. You may be able to shave some agent fees by using only the listing agent verses splitting between multiple agents..

Good luck..

[BigJimCalhoun]

Monument is really nice but I think it is a drive from Fort Carson. It is a lot closer to the Air Force Academy.

Fort Carson is in S.W. Colorado Springs. I have never been there personally and am not familiar with the Southern end of Colorado Springs at all but I suspect Fort Carson is a good 30 minutes plus from Monument.

Some nice subdivisions in C.S. that I like are RockRimmon and Briargate. They are near the North end near the Air Force academy. There are many other nice subdivisions in Colorado Springs. I would love to live there myself but my work is in Denver and that would mean a 150 mile commute each day.

District 20 schools are supposed to be really nice.

I am not sure where you are emigrating from but many of the newer subidivisions in Colorado have homes that are very close together. This was hard for me when I first moved here.

[Stras]

Look out the Gate 20 area from FCCO. this is where Powers BLVD dumps into the base. Fountain has some good neighborhoods and within a mile or 2 of my house is the grade school, junior high and high schools. My house was built in Aug 05, and there's tons of new homes around the Safeway vic of Powers and Fountain Mesa Road.

Best of luck to you. Get with guys in the bn for the latest on the areas to avoid..

the housing is a little on the spendy side. be forewarned before you show up thinking that what your money bought in Fayettenam will get you the same house in CO.

[Ret10Echo]

...Lived down in Pueblo West while stationed at Carson. The drive in mileage terms was longer, but time-wise was much more efficient than coming down from the north end of C.S. The place has grown a bunch since I was there with a retail coming in as well as a H.S. .... plus the golf course and the resevoir nearby....50 is a quick sneak the back way to the ski areas...great fishing up the Arkansas River.

Price-wise it used to be a bit cheaper than the Springs...down side is the travel for family to FRG stuff, commissary, etc.

R10

[Sonic03svtCobra]

Thanks for the intel. Looking forward to the move.