Eddie89 suggested another innovative website for home shoppers – a website that assigns a score to each house based on sound quality. Scores are 1-100, and the higher the score, the quieter:
Other tools include:
Google Maps/Earth,
Mello-Roos (need APN)
Supplemental Property Tax calculator (need APN)
and the closest Starbucks!
At city-data.com, you can search by zip code and find all the demographics you have ever imagined (though some of it is dated).
The more-analytical folks could draw up their own scorecard!
Yes! These are all excellent tools that we used to weed out some of the homes that didn’t meet our criteria.
Might as well get the research done ahead of time and not waste time with any turkeys! 🙂