WTH!

Last night I stayed up till way past one o'clock in the morning searching for homes. Welp, I focused mainly in the Carrollton area. I don't want to really live in Carrollton....schools are just okay. Neighborhoods could be better. But for some reason our realtor wants to keep showing us homes in Carrollton. So I picked out a few that I'd consider looking at last night. I figured since he's been selling homes out here for 30+ years, maybe he knows something we don't.

WELL....he may know something we don't, but he's not looking at things I am.

I was becoming physically ill last night researching the crime in these Carrollton neighborhoods. Then I decided to stop looking at the crime and just look to see where all the registered sex offenders were. I wanted to cry! I can't live anywhere without running into one out here! And to see the ages of the victims was heart wrenching! I am still nauseous.

They live near parks & schools. It's ridiculous!

RS stands for registered sex offenders. This is some of the Carrollton area. The area that we'd live in since the schools are suppose to be better in this area. Zip code 75007

This is zip code area 75010. The area were we have been looking at houses in Carrollton. The schools are lots better. But still look....3 registered sex offenders in this neighborhood. And there 2 schools and a park just blocks from where they live! If you can read the street names, we've looked at houses on Hearthstone, Greenstone, Falcon Ridge, Clearwater Trail, and Greenview.
We are suppose to look at a house on Camden Way tonight. We'd be surrounded by them. But I suppose that's better than living next door to them.

This one really disgusted me! We are to see a house on Chesterfield. There are sex offenders in both directions on that block (pretty much anyways). There is another house on Kensington Dr. that we are suppose to see too.

Just for reference....just found this out too. My neighborhood! I live on Farley Trail. There aren't any in my immediate neighborhood...but they are all in the neighborhoods around me! Not as safe as I thought I was!

And it looks like Plano even has it's share of whack jobs! The house we saw last night on Delmar has one on the next block and it also looks like there is one living in the park at the end of the block!

Okay.....back to being depressed........

And made a comment the other day that he doesn't want to live in an area that he knows for a fact that he WILL be going to jail for setting someone on fire.....on a regular basis!

More Homes Not To Love....

We looked at 3 more houses tonight....

Delmar House, Plano

This house was on it's way to being perfect until we went down the hall way to the bedrooms.

Has a nice big front yard.

The fence would have to be replaced immediately. If we let Maggie loose in that back yard, she'd find her way through those jacked up planks and escape!

A high school with a NICE running track and a park with a playground was at the end of the street.

Pretty foyer.

Until I saw the wall was separating from the floor.

Dining area, LOVE the floors! The are real wood too!

Kitchen has tons of potential.

Not sure what this is used for over the stove. Oh, needs new appliances.

Breakfast area. Love the kind of bay window thing going on.

Lots of cracks seen around this house.

Love the floors again! I don't like that fireplace or those white built ins. But without messing up the floors, I can't demolish those two things.

Turned their back porch into a small solarium.

Hallway to the bedrooms. Once again, the kid's rooms are at the front of the house.

Guest bathroom

Okay, this is the master bath. WAY CRAMPED!

The backyard....I like it and the kids can run around! I still like mine better though.

Ables House, Plano

Okay, the roof on this house was replaced in 2008. Last year. They chose to put a green roof on this house. GREEN roof!

See GREEN!

Wall paper in the guest bathroom. And the tubs in both bathrooms would have to be removed. They looked super gross!

It wasn't enough to wallpaper the walls, the did all the outlet covers too!

Dining area....they forgot their curtains and box thing above them.

Nice windows in the living room.

More wallpaper. This bathroom looks like mine. Except I like mine better!

I don't know what the heck this room was. It had a gross feeling!

Kitchen was do-able, needs some TLC and new appliances.

I have always wanted a weeping willow tree and they have one!

And we couldn't figure out what the heck this thing was....

nice backyard, but still, no running around yard for the kids.

Hearthstone House, Carrollton

This house was very open, but you could tell it was owned by an older person. It needed lots of TLC. And the walk way up to the house had cracks in it. That scares me....all I can think is foundation issues and that equals lots of $$$$$. But it was a nice house, but a weird floor plan and didn't look very well thought out either. Lots of wasted space.

Nice Foyer. I like the double door thing. BTW...there were mirrors every where in this house! And I am not sure why the weights were there. Those ceramic tiles were through out the house along with some blue/silver plush carpet. Pretty...but not our style.

Master bedroom....open and airy. But maybe too airy if someone was in the bathroom while I was in the bedroom. I might be able to smell something. Ewww!

I don't like the color of these cabinets. Nor do I like that nearly every house I have gone into with a stand up shower is brass. Gross!

Comfy Living with a wet bar behind the couch. And the dining behind the living area. Two bedrooms are just off to the right with another bathroom....very very very outdated bathroom at that! I also don't understand why people carpet the dining room. My kids are messy! Are mine the only ones?

Second living area. Nice.

Not sure what this are is. It's kinda like a common ground between the two living areas and the breakfast area and the back door. Wasted space if you ask me.

Kitchen area/ breakfast nook/ or informal dinig area. I think I'd knock a whole in the wall and open up to the living area and carry the kitchen into this area. This kitchen is super small with hardly any counter space. See more mirrors. Even one behind the stove.

Kitchen...too small!

Nice groomed back yard....but not enough room for the kids to run!

So that was it for today. We are still waiting to find that perfect home! And I am becoming increasingly aggravated with not being able to find what we want that I think we may have to really start looking in other cities. I may have to go out of my comfort zone....UGG!