midwesterngal

It closed 8-12 months ago. The chef is now at Gio's on Sawdust in the Woodlands. The food's pretty good, but the service is nothing like La Tavola.

I don't know if there are laws about leasing. Maybe someone else on here can enlighten us. I do think there are leasing companies that will look after the house for you, but this owner didn't use one. The HOA was contacted, but wouldn't get involved. Hopefully, the new HOA company is better about that. It ended up selling for somewhere in the 260-270K range. They always seemed to have a new car, new furniture, etc. I don't know if they could afford it, or were just trying to live the high life by maxing out their credit cards. They used the pool quite a bit, so you'd over hear conversations from the walking trail. Mom and Dad fought a lot. Mom and the kids fought a lot. Lots of foul language, without regard to how loud they were or who might hear. I wonder if they're still leasing the other house in VC... And, I hope they're not your neighbors!

We had a house on our street in Village Creek that was leased for about a year. I never saw the inside of the house, but I can only imagine. The people who leased it had 3-4 kids. For a couple of months, someone was living with them -- another 2-3 kids. There were 1 or 2 dogs, hamsters/mice, etc. The kids played in the street or in the neighbors' yards. To our knowledge, the owner never stopped by to check on the house. One day, a for sale sign went up in the yard. They moved out a couple of weeks after that and leased another house in Village Creek. Glad to here that homes in VC may start to retain their value. Unfortunately, there is one realtor who prices his homes in VC a little lower than other realtors. So, for now, the comps aren't so good.

Long time lurker... first time poster. (Please be nice .) We lived in Village Creek for four years. We liked our house and lived on a nice, quiet street. However, our realtor sold us on the "master planned community" of Village Creek. Maybe our hopes were too high, but we never felt like it was anything more than a regular subdivision. When we moved in, they were just starting to build behind the lake. Obviously, the demographics of the subdivision changed when less expensive homes (i.e. Lennar) were built. The fountain around the lake never seemed to be working and there were huge drainage issues on the sidewalks around the lake. I know there's a new HOA company, so hopefully some of those issues have been resolved. We sold our house last year and took a loss. It's always best to think resale when you buy, so be prepared. Most of the resales in Village Creek have taken a loss. Ours was minimal, but many are not. Since the subdivision isn't closed out yet, many people would rather buy a new home. The area on Spring Cypress surrounding the subdivision entrance killed us. People didn't like the empty trailer that sits nearby. (Sorry, I can't remember exactly where it is/was!) They didn't like the tan building across the street from the entrance. It was a school at one time. I don't know what's in there now, if anything. The KB Homes on Eldridge were too close. It goes on and on. If I were to do it over again, I'd look at Longwood or Coles Crossing. Longwood is away from all of the traffic mess on Spring Cypress. I've only driven through parts of Coles Crossing, but it always seemed cleaner and better maintained than Village Creek. Both are in CFISD, which I'd take over TISD any day.