[chepascual]

What do you guys think of the Mountain's Edge community in terms of investment or a place to live?

[PinkString]

Mountains Edge is a nice newer community. Very pretty out there. Traffic is congested, until they put some more roads out there. Good place to live.

[Chest Rockwell]

It is a very new and beautiful area. Super quiet. Many of the tracts have awesome clubhouses and community centers as well. Perfect if you work from home, or on the SW side of town. There are some bargains to be had right now in this area.

However......

Don't plan on trying to sell a house out there until you no longer have to compete with the builders. I've driven down streets where 3 out of every 4 houses are on the market.

I am still disgusted that they were allowed to build tens of thousands of houses out there when the main street was a two lane highway with no traffic lights to speak of. It was a prime example of the lack of oversight and the power of the greedy builders during the housing boom. The rash of traffic deaths last year on Blue Diamond was an embarrassment in terms of city plannning. Rainbow eventually turns into Mountain's edge Parkway, but only after becoming an unlit 1 lane road with a deathtrap turn in the middle of the desert. Who allowed this?

The 215 Westbound is a parking lot in the afternoon/evening, so add an extra 30 minutes to your commute if you are coming from the strip and an extra hour if you are coming from Henderson. Blue Diamond has been improved, but it's nowhere near where it should be considering the amount of building that has been done.

As with anywhere, there are positives and negatives. Be careful, because if you want out, you will have an especially tough time selling at this point. It could become one of the most sought after areas to live once the traffic concerns are fixed and building has finished.

[olecapt]

Simple answer...don't buy the houses. Why put up with all that?

So shake it all down the fault comes back to the consumer. The Builders build there because the consumer will buy there. The County and cities allow it because they have almost no choice in liberterian Nevada. In general the state and its population have been very resistant to any throttles on growth or land use.

But in the end it is the consumer who buys and allows the process to go on.

[koogan]

Just moved to Mountains Edge. The home is great. The neighborhood is way out of the way but the flip side, I suppose, is low crime. There is nothing in this "master planned" community of 7,000 homes except the homes and the vast Nevada desert. No 7-11s, grocery stores, gas stations, medical offices, banks, post offices, recreation centers, libraries, nada. The roads suck -- lots of road closures and sudden narrowing of pavement -- and the county won't build a bridge across railroad tracks that would cut travel time in half for many motorists.

[Raiderman]

Originally Posted by koogan

Just moved to Mountains Edge. The home is great. The neighborhood is way out of the way but the flip side, I suppose, is low crime. There is nothing in this "master planned" community of 7,000 homes except the homes and the vast Nevada desert. No 7-11s, grocery stores, gas stations, medical offices, banks, post offices, recreation centers, libraries, nada. The roads suck -- lots of road closures and sudden narrowing of pavement -- and the county won't build a bridge across railroad tracks that would cut travel time in half for many motorists.

We picked GV over Mountains Edge for that very reason, not convenient as of yet. The homes were larger, but we noticed build quality was lower. Definitely a lot of bang for your buck, though!

[FML157]

Nice area but albeit far, infrastructure needs work, heard there's a lot of renters (not sure if this is true). The community park is really nice and I think Clark County is going to be building a community center nearby very soon.

[TomKBL]

Originally Posted by koogan

Just moved to Mountains Edge. The home is great. The neighborhood is way out of the way but the flip side, I suppose, is low crime. There is nothing in this "master planned" community of 7,000 homes except the homes and the vast Nevada desert. No 7-11s, grocery stores, gas stations, medical offices, banks, post offices, recreation centers, libraries, nada. The roads suck -- lots of road closures and sudden narrowing of pavement -- and the county won't build a bridge across railroad tracks that would cut travel time in half for many motorists.

There are two gas station on Blue Diamond between Rainbow and Durango and one more is coming soon. A few stores and restaurants in the same area, including Walgreen, 7-11, McDonald, etc. A newly built library is on windmill and rainbow, about 3 miles away from ME. No medical offices, banks, and post offices yet in ME, but they are only less than 5 miles away. The regional park (Phase I) is being built and expected to open in Fall; the future phase will include a regional center, cultural center, and a lot more.

[TomKBL]

I used to live in Henderson for a year, and I feel it's more convenient to get to the Strip from ME than from most areas of Henderson.

[PinkString]

It always takes awhile, several years when new communities pop up to get all of the things you would want in an area. When we first came out to see Aliante, before the model homes were finished, we had to travel over some really rutted old dirt roads to get to the site. It was a royal pain. Aliante has only been in existence for 10 years, and for a long time we did not have any shopping nearby, had to go to Ann road to shop or Craig road. Now 10 years later we have too much shopping all around us, restaurants, banks, several grocery stores, etc. And a nice library, parks.
It will happen for Mountains Edge, they usually wait until it is almost all built out, then the stores come.