Real Estate is all about Location and this makes lot of difference than home. You can always change anything in home except location,
Please work with at least two to three lenders during aggressive buying mode as some times your offers will be accepted depends on your conditions, rather your offer price. You also have advantage being first time home buyer being fewer conditions to deal with. We are 100% confident on this process and i am specialized in dealing for good deals with several realtors.
As you are concentrating on Mostly on School areas , please visit my groups and see Links for various school districts in bay area including South Bay and East bay.
You NEED to use School Locator's more often to confirm your home HOME schools. Sometimes School districts may change boundaries, so you always want to verify in Website for proper information.
For Example:
Address: 7491 Kingsbury Place, Cupertino CA 95014
Link: http://cupertino.ca.campusgrid.net/home/CUSD+Street+Locator
Enter your address properly like 7491 Kingsbury Place
Result:
You will see Elementary School and Middle School here.
Then if you want to know exact score of these schools, Please do not depend on third party websites, Please look @ Department of Education, California Web Site.
Please click below for this link http://www.cde.ca.gov/index.asp
Then Click on Data / Statistics: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/
Click on Dataquest
Then 1. Enter Level: district
Then 2. Select Level: Academic Performance index
Then Click Submit
Then you will get one more screen where you need to Enter a Portion of the District Name ,
For Example:
For Cupertino --> Enter Cupertino,
For Fremont Union High ----> enter Fremont Union High
Then Click 2009 Growth API Report - List of Schools in the District Radio Button
and then enter SUBMIT
then you will see RESULTS , where you will exactly see 2008 API and also 2009 Target API's.
We are mostly familiar with these steps and do every minute,We can see things in seconds and provide you results.
You always want to be accurate as you are making big purchase in your life and want to make sure things are in right ORDER.
Please do remember, Always Elementary School districts include Middle School as well. then Same area will have High school district as well which needs to be checked as well in same way. However you want to make sure Elementary school and middle schools are good for your purchase being most of young buyers looking for those mostly.
Here are few School District Links and you can browse and finalize your 3 Top location depends on your distance and
comfortable level of Community. We can start searching for you and provide with you all options
Campbell: http://www.campbellusd.k12.ca.us/
Cupertino: http://cupertino.ca.campusgrid.net/home
Cambrian Area : http://www.cambrian.k12.ca.us/
Santa Clara : http://www.santaclarausd.org/
Sunnyvale:
http://sunnyvaleschool.ca.schoolwebpages.com/education/district/district.php?sectionid=1
Moreland: http://www.moreland.k12.ca.us/
Milpitas : https://www.musd.org/
Evergreen: http://evergreen.ccsct.com/
Fremont: http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/fusd/site/default.asp
Berryessa Area : http://www.berryessa.k12.ca.us/busd/site/default.asp
Best of luck with your search
-Wisewealth Team.