DC Ranch is one of my favorite places to make fun of, because it really epitomizes "Scottsdale Fake." And now it's home to the infamous DC Ranch Marketplace which is about 60% vacant, due to all the shops and restaurants going out of business since the local residents have zero disposable income. Someone named Hill from the midwest posted a comment here saying that they were considering a move to DC Ranch ... here are two replies that have come in so far:
Dear Hill --
Having just sold my DC Ranch home, I would say we are still a long way from the bottom. I would say prices will come down another 30%. There has been alot of speculation in DC Ranch so hold out as long as you can before buying. It still has a long way to go before it hits bottom...don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. They only have their own interest at heart.
DC Ranch does "look" great, but look below the surface and you won't like what you see. I even have friends who still live there and would say the same. If you are looking for a family friendly community, try Grayhawk. We are renting a house here now and the neighbors are 10x friendlier than DC Ranch ever was.
Having owned two homes in DC Ranch over six years I can say the HOA has made it a police state. Very different than it was years ago. They are out of control. They are making one of my old neighbors rip out a $100K pool and backyard, only because the didn't get the HOA prior approval. Before we could sell our house we had a guy come and count the plants in our yard. We had to add several thousands of dollars to a yard than when fully established/grown will be too crowded. My Landscape Architect couldn't believe some of the stuff they were having me do. Putting trees in places that when they are full grown will have to be to cut down, because they will be too close to the house and neighbors. We did it only to be able to get out of there. It was well worth every penny to be done with it.
All I can say is, if you are looking to buy in North Scottsdale... don't buy in DC Ranch. You can rent a beautiful house there for much less than the cost to own. If you do want to buy, buy someplace else. Trust me.
Small Hat
Hill... DC Ranch looked great to us...
Do not be fooled by PR and other BS Realtors or developers tell you... We are "living" here since 3 years, the worst 3 years of our lives!!!!
Do not fall for the glitter in DC Ranch or Verrado... it's all infested with the worst kind of people!!!
Maybe someone else here can chime in to save that poor soul from moving here!!!
Here is what they never report:
Houses selling for 700k, no money down, adjustable interest only, second mortgage adjustable balloon and it is still going on even after all the “outrage” with the sub prime and no money down lending.
I looked some of them up in my neighborhood, just closed this month and they are all over and I mean all over.
Very popular with Mexican and black trash from California. It drives them into the “well to do” neighborhoods and immediately you have the barrio stuff going on. Blaring ghetto gangsta music, speeding like crazy in on residential roads, running stop signs and red lights. Rice rockets with no muffler. This garbage is drawn into the nice areas and after 6 months it turns into such a shit hole that any normal family has to leave. I kid you not. There is absolute no escape from this shit. Almost every new neighborhood is completely infested with human garbage, developments less than 2 years old, sometimes not even a year goes by before you have drug dealers, meth heads, section 8, any kind of criminal and just plain dumb and ignorant trashy people.
Here is a quote from someone in my neighborhood:
There is NO middle here, Phoenix has no sophistication and no professional class. OK yes we have doctors and lawyers etc. but the jobs and the class of people are generally high-school educated, lots of self-employed people and the culture is very blah. Is there a wonder AZ has one of the highest rates of sub-prime borrowers? We call AZ the "brain-dead" or handicapped state.
I was never ever in my life so occupied with this kind stuff as we are in Phoenix. We never ever feel safe here, there are so many opportunists here and you can't even go on a walk without arming your alarm because the chance is so high that someone will use that and to a fast grab and run.
I just hope that people read this before they move here and get blinded by the “dry heat” and great sunsets....my ass. Unfortunately we have to stay here a little longer, we cannot just leave our business and move, but I am working real hard on getting the hell out of here.
Oh hell, I can't abandon this site. We owe it to people to let them know the truth about Scottsdale. Incidentally, my friends and neighbors here in Orange County (rated the safest county in the US) think I'm crazy for being so paranoid about crime. I tell them, you live in Scottsdale for a few years and see how soon you're carrying a gun for protection and never leaving the house without putting all your valuables in safes. When I first met my girlfriend when she was living in north Scottsdale, having just moved from Westchester County, NY, she thought I was a bit paranoid too, then she had her car broken into twice in a two-month period and changed her tune very quickly.
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