re: Would you buy a family home in Broadmoor

Broadmoor is going to be an interesting one. I've worked the area as a technician over the past decade, and I haven't seen it get demonstrably worse during that time. They have the nice grocery store out on Florida, and there are some really good people who live behind there.

OTOH, it's adjacent to Florida Boulevard, and the areas around there are OOC--like watch-over-your-shoulder-at-noon kind of bad, especially just north of Florida.

Long term, it's all going to turn into another north BR, just like the area around Exxon ultimately did. In the shorter term, it would be interesting to see if the Amazon facility will lead to some initial prosperity and stabilization of the region. Offhand, I'd feel pretty comfortable buying for the 10-20 year market. Longer than that, I'd expect it to follow the same trends as the rest of BR.

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The new Amazon distribution center should help out with property values soon.

My family still owns a home in Broadmoor, right behind the high school. Visit every month or so to see my mother. It is a very sad state of affairs there.

been living here for 30 years and love it.
big arse house with game room (pool table) @ 2750 sq. ft. total.

Neighbors are the shite and lately young couples seen moving in.

take it for what it's worth.

People walk the neighborhood looking to steal packages and whatever is loose but they aren't from the area, they travel from other areas to come steal. I guess it is an easy area for them to get to because of the bus stops in the area. I had some stuff stolen from my boat and they walked directly to the pawn shop to sell it... I had them on camera and the pawn shop had them on camara. Pawn shop wasn't too happy when I got my stuff back from the cops, they said they never have to give stuff back but since we had clear video on our side they had to cough it up.

Other than that, it is very centrally located to go to LSU, Down town, towne center, going to Denham springs where everybody and their mother seems to be moving to. My house is huge for the $$$ and our lot is bigger than most. My next move will be the sticks when I am done with school but there is nothing wrong with the area. It isn't any worse than a new subdivision, people get their shite stolen there to. If you pull up crime statistics for the area the cities/towns in Livingston and Ascension the violent crime per capita are worse than in most of Baton Rouge. You take away a couple of zip codes and Baton Rouge violent crime really doesn't leave the hood and subsidized apartment complexes.

I wouldn’t buy a home anywhere in BR

I live in old goodwood, and a few good friends live is it capital heights, ingleside, and garden district. These are considered good areas, but they still have a high incedence of petty crime

My son just bought a house in the Broadmoor Goodwood area. It seems nice to me and you do get more space for your money compared to the other side of Airline.

But I'm from NOLA; most other places seem safe to me...

I own my home one street over from the high school. I have a huge assed back yard with lots of privacy. Been here since 2001. It is quite, no trouble on my street. Broadmoor is centrally located and far from Siegen. No homeless problem here. Never had anything stolen and my property value has gone up each year.