Build In Harveston or Buy In Woodridge?

Woodwridge

Harveston is way over priced. Looked into buying a lot in there several months ago.

I am in no way a fan of zero lot lines with 2 kids, regardless of the amenities. It is nice though if that's what you are looking for.

Yeah, those are definitely things that I've been thinking about. It also appears that they are making a new entrance into Woodridge.

What I am curious about is what Wampold has planned for the other side of Bluebonnet...because those are also potential good things to make the property value rise.

But I do tend to agree that Harveston is overpriced. I just like the idea of it all, I guess - but I don't want to be part of the next Spring Lake.

Yeah, we met with two of the builders...and if we decide to build, know which we would go with. All of the houses seem very nice...it's just the lot size that you give up - the houses seem very close together.

Growing up in LA, I've always enjoyed a yard, so if we decide to end up building in Harveston, I'm going to have to get over the fact that I won't have much of a yard, but instead have walking trails, lakes, a clubhouse, and 600 acres of nature preserve. Just trying to think of what my kids would enjoy most really...and I also have two dogs (lab and beagle).

HOA fees are $750 yr. There will eventually be another entry/ exit, but some of the builders are even saying they are expecting this to be a long arse project (between the houses and development that Wampold has planned across the street.

Main concerns are whether these areas will sustain their property value. Obviously Harveston is a new project which is TBD. And I'm not familiar with Woodridge.

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And I'm not familiar with Woodridge

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I am also looking for a house and had not heard of woodridge before mentioned here. I have been to a house here not knowing the name of the subdivision. I also just looked up the 10 or so houses for sale on cj brown. I like the location but every house looks the same and has a front garage. The front garage is a deal breaker in my book. I have my reservations about all the new developments in BR.
Harveston - great developer but zero lot lines and that close to gardere bugs me.
Rouzan - developer riddled with problems and way over priced
Longfarm - another good developer but he panicked and sold a ton of lots to dr horton. But a location I like alot.
not that many options for new with a yard and not sure i want to spend 350k on a house and redo the entire inside

400k can only get you ~2500sqft? Seems like that doesn't compute in BR.

Harveston bedrooms are tiny - like a walk in closet tiny

I live in Fairhill right now and we are looking at Harveston as well. We love the area because you are sort of on the outskirts of town, but at the same time close enough to all the amenities like Perkins Rowe (Fresh Market etc.). When BR traffic has a major breakdown (like when all the interstates closed due to cold weather), you can just take River Road or Nicholson to avoid it. I grew up in the country where we could leave our front doors unlocked, so the thought of living that close to Gardere really bothered me, but it really hasn't been an issue at all. There are plenty of family's walking every day around the neighborhood and its been a great starter home for us.

As for Harveston, I assume you know of all of the amenities (walking trails, gym, farmers market etc.). We talked to the lady in some of the homes that were having open houses and expressed our disappointment in the yard sizes and she told us that the lots in the back are actually bigger and do provide you with a yard. Its just those houses in the front that supposedly have the tiny piece of a yard that is barely large enough for a BBQ. Also, when you were standing in the living room of one home, the second story window of the next home had a clear view of anything you were doing, which is disturbing. On top of that, the open house lady was pretty rude.