School/Rental checklist
Jun 25th 2008, 6:02 pm
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School/Rental checklist
Hi All - firstly thanks for all the useful info so far.
I will be in LA next week on a housing and School recce - apart from the obvious questions can anyone reccomend some more unusual ones?
I will be in LA next week on a housing and School recce - apart from the obvious questions can anyone reccomend some more unusual ones?
Jun 25th 2008, 6:15 pm
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Re: School/Rental checklist
Read the WIKI on schools up above, and then see what you might need particular that school district (immunizations, transcripts). You can check out http://www.greatschools.net to get the rundown on the various schools in that area before you start shopping for the house. Can save some time if you already have the different names (and test scores) on your mind while you are looking for places to live.
Jun 25th 2008, 6:40 pm
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Re: School/Rental checklist
We did our househunting / school recce trip a few weeks ago.
Beforehand we drew up a list of schools we were interested in - my husbands company are providing relocation help, which included a consultant to help us do this - do you have any of that kind of help?
Once we had our list of schools, we provided that info to the realtor and only looked at houses which were in the attendance areas of schools on our list.
We had some visits set up for the schools, but in the end, the lease houses were moving so fast, we signed up to a house before we had visited any of the schools and only visited the one that my son (aged 10) will be attending.
The school visit was useful - in particular I think my son likes the fact he can now visualise where he'll go to school.
In terms of houses - we had a basic list of requirements - budget, no of bedrooms etc, and we asked to visit all that met our criteria and were in attendance zones for selected schools. We viewed them with open minds, and in the end we chose based on very subjective stuff - kind of the feel of the house.
Beforehand we drew up a list of schools we were interested in - my husbands company are providing relocation help, which included a consultant to help us do this - do you have any of that kind of help?
Once we had our list of schools, we provided that info to the realtor and only looked at houses which were in the attendance areas of schools on our list.
We had some visits set up for the schools, but in the end, the lease houses were moving so fast, we signed up to a house before we had visited any of the schools and only visited the one that my son (aged 10) will be attending.
The school visit was useful - in particular I think my son likes the fact he can now visualise where he'll go to school.
In terms of houses - we had a basic list of requirements - budget, no of bedrooms etc, and we asked to visit all that met our criteria and were in attendance zones for selected schools. We viewed them with open minds, and in the end we chose based on very subjective stuff - kind of the feel of the house.
Jul 10th 2008, 1:34 pm
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Re: School/Rental checklist
Not sure if you're still around looking for housing/schools.. my husband and I lived for 3 years in Woodland Hills, which is seemingly a nice area... however at the end of the day we were pushed into the Canoga Park School District. Long story short our ultimate decision to move to the Chicago Area was that we COULD NOT let our sons go to school there. IT WAS AWFUL! My suggestion.. if you can swing it & the commute move out of LA County... head towards Ventura... Thousand Oaks has great schools and is a nice area!
