Inside an Affordable Upscale Home Near Phoenix AZ with Mountain Views

If you are a young professional or even an older professional, if you're an empty nester, a first time home buyer, or a snowbird, second home, vacation, this is something for you. It is upscale, it's affordable, it's right by Peoria border so you get the mountain views. What? Three bedroom, two bath, three car garage, 2100 square feet, single level, in surprise. We're talking affordable, we're talking a quaint neighborhood, an HOA that doesn't break the bank. And like I said, outdoor activities right around the corner. And the incentives we are getting our clients, insane. Stay with me. Let's take a walk through the dove floor plan with Jessilee Reed. Hi. Do we have some visitors here? We do. Yeah, so the garage is the sales office. So they have this open normally and it'd be closed off. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Let's go on into the kitchen. Okay. We have people making way for us. Hello, thank you. Nice and wide though. I mean spacious right as you walk in. Take a look at like how you feel when you walk in. So when you walk in, immediately you have a hall to the right. And then you have this big wide hallway. I love that. It just feels very spacious right off the bat. Tall ceilings. Oh wow, look at this. This is really nice. I love how it even gets wider and then you go into your office or... Look at these ceilings. Flex space. This just feels so spacious. It does. I like that they've put doors too. You don't have to put doors. Look at the size of that room. It's so big. I'm sure there's a couple of different options. You could choose for doors if you don't want to have windows. If you want to hide. Yeah. Some... You can do kids playroom or the office. I'm going to lock us in here. Oh silly. Oh, this is different. Oh, I love this. Yeah. This is different. Wow. Really? Dark cabinets. And it's interesting how those dark cabinets really give off a dark feel. And the floor isn't really all that dark. And I realize we're not supposed to be looking at the design. But just to point out when you have, again, so much black, it really makes it look dark. It makes the floor look darker. Now, if you had white cabinets or the lighter brown, I feel like the floor would look even lighter. And the fact that they have really dark black backsplash too. I do like the color though. It's actually blue. Oh, is it? I don't know if you can tell from over there. Now, if you come over here and tell me it's black, I might need to get my eyes checked. You have better eyes than I do. I don't know. Check it though. Oh no, it is a blue. Isn't that pretty? I like it with the gold. It's very regal. The blue and the gold. Oh yeah. I just don't like it. Yeah. And oh, so you can also do... They have the two different colors for the cabinets and then the cabinets in the island are white. A lot of people are choosing to do that now. You know what? They don't look stark white though. There's so many different shades. When you go to the design center to pick your cabinet, it's probably not white. You're right. I don't know the difference. Yeah, but like you were just saying, there's a lot of whites. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, love the countertop. Love how much room we have to cook. We also have... It looks like a range, but it's not a range. It's a cooktop and then it has the oven directly underneath it. We don't have the hood. One of the things when you have a hood, I know that they look amazing, but you lose the space there. So, yep. Actually, this is nice. This is upgraded appliances. And I love how big this microwave is. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. And you guys are probably laughing. It's a standard microwave. Let me tell you. There are some that are really like... Short now. Like that. Like they're more slender, right? They're more modern. Yeah. I like this better. Me too. And then we have this gorgeous... Yeah, that's really nice. I love that blue. Yeah. That's interesting. You don't always see the cooktop like that with the... I mean, because it's not a range, but... I feel like this home is also showing not a ton of upgrades. So, you can see how nice and it would still be reasonably priced. And what I mean by that is cabinets with drawers are more expensive than cabinets. I don't know if I said that right. But having all of these as cabinets instead of drawers are less expensive than the drawers. Drawers are more usable and there's no pullets there. Those aren't soft close. Again, yeah. Showing, yeah, just the different options that you can have. Like this is not an upgrade. Yep. Yeah. So, this is a nice example of not... You don't have to spend a ton of money and still have a beautiful kitchen. Yeah. We have a really big sink. I do like this sink though very much. It's a Kohler and it has a protecting cover coat on it and it doesn't show water spots. Boom. I think it's... I like the white too. Yeah. You wouldn't show any water spots. I've seen this in white, brown and black. And gray. I want to say it's like a granite material. You do? Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong anybody, but I do think... She goes to the design center appointments with you, so she's the one that knows all about it. It doesn't mean I'm always right, but I'm learning. We have... You don't even have to open the door to look at the pantry. Right. I personally don't think I would want glass. No, I wouldn't like glass either. Unless you're super very organized like the home edit people with the label. Organized people, yeah. Little coffee pot center right there. And here's your pull-out drawer. Freezer. Hi. Are you girls doing good? Checking up? We're just... Are you okay? Do you have any questions? We're doing great. Thank you. Loving this kitchen. Yeah. And then... I love it. Absolutely love it. Yep. We have our beautiful salesperson here. And then we also have the big kitchen area. We have a tucked in area. No formal dining, but you could make this a casual formal. That's what they've kind of done here with this. I like the round. I was just going to say I love round tables. But if you don't want to do round, you could actually do square because this is a really square room. But it's so big. It'd be really hard to do a rectangle there. I love the windows up over here to the right. You could extend or get a buffet and put over here on this wall for even more storage. Then we have this sliding glass door. Yeah, I was going to say sometimes you see two sliding glass doors, but that would take away that wall space over there. I like how this is done. Yeah. And although it has four panes, it's only the middle two that open up. It's called a center mead. Center mead! Thank you, Jessie Lee. Oh, Brad, I am. Do you want to check out the backyard? I love how much shade we have here. Oh, it's so nice. A TV. I'm always talking about TVs in the patio. Well, that's actually kind of cute and fun. We don't see that. Well, I think it could be done a little bit better. I like the idea. Yeah, it's a little janky. I don't mean to call them out, but look at what's that? That's not very attractive. Oh, man. Or is that? You could make this look much nicer. I like the noise, though. I like that the patio is in the center versus on one side or the other. Yeah, especially if you're OCD. Yeah. And then the pergola you're standing under is center as well. So it's nice. Got a gas stub so you could do a built-in barbecue. Yeah. Obviously, what they did here is a shade structure, water feature, golf, and lots of bushes. You want to plant as many bushes and trees, you know, not overkill, but the more shade and the more green you have, your yard will feel cooler. Unfortunately, turf makes your yard feel warmer. Just saying. OK, so also I want to point out tile is only included in certain walkways in the kitchen and there's carpet in the base. If you want to upgrade, if you're building from new construction, you can change this. But spec homes and the base price comes with carpet. That's correct. All right. This is a nice size room. Yep. Plenty of space. Wow. That is a huge opening that I'm about to get to. Oh, right here. Look, not only is it wide, it's so tall. Look at that. That's cuckoo crazy. Yeah. OK, what would you do if you were building a home, Cheryl? Like after you close, would you add a door or would you put a slider door or what do you think you would do? If I had another person living in my master bedroom with me and we had different schedules. Yeah, that's really what it's all about is the noise and the light. So I'd want to have some kind of a barrier because it's so close to the bed. I would hire a contractor to come in and I would put an amazing door. But at the same time, this particular one is so wide and tall. I don't know that I've ever seen one this big. It does look super cool, but functionally, it kind of it might be disruptive is what I'm saying, you know. So especially look at the showers literally right there. I didn't even notice that yet. Yeah. So I think I would have a contractor come in afterwards, make it a little bit smaller and put on a door. Love this vanity. I love the drawers in the center. I love the separate mirrors. I like the light, the window. I do too. Yeah. Natural light. I like that for putting on makeup. These are big drawers too for a bathroom. Wow. Look at that hair dryer, curling iron. You could also put your makeup standing up. I actually have a drawer like that. We have one medicine cabinet. At least there's one. Yeah. Some people don't like medicine cabinets. I do because it gives you more storage. I had a buyer take theirs out completely. Yeah. They actually bought a spec home and that builder was nice enough to just take it out for him. That's very nice. Yeah. That's very nice. Yeah. Let's look at that shelving. The light. That's beautiful. The dust collector. That's well, it's not only a dust collector, it's a water spot collector. Right? Yeah. All of these. No matter what. You're going to be getting water everywhere. Yeah. Like when you're going. This is a tall shower. Look at these little cubbies too. This is really nice. So that you don't have your shampoo bottles up here. You know what? I know that that's what it's intended for. But you're still going to put your stuff. That's how it is. It's like more convenient to grab it from here versus all the way down here. And then of course you have these shelves over here too. But I like how the knobs are over here. But do you have a separate cold and hot? Oh no. It's two different shut. Oh yeah. One's for the one's for the rain. There we go. Yeah. I'm all going slow. Go ahead. Turn on. Is that all the way on? Yes. They probably don't. Yeah, that's it's all the way on. Okay. Well, maybe they have it on a weird setting. You know what? They might not have the water here on. And that might have something. Well, that wouldn't have anything to do. We do have it off now, right? Oh, go ahead and turn it off. Okay. All the way. And then all the way off. Okay. Oh, that's because you had both of them on at the same time. Okay. Let's try one. All right. Wait, they both went on. I know this one's off. Okay. Is that weird? Turn that off. Okay. Now just turn that one on. Okay. Something's going. Okay. So that one did turn off. So this is okay. So this one is just for that. Okay. Something's not working, right? Clearly. Because you couldn't take a shower with either of those. No. All right. Turn that off. Okay. But I love the tile. If it worked correctly, that would be awesome. We'll fix that for you. I'm sure they will. And if I'm here to help make sure that happens. Okay. Wow. This is a nice size closet. Yep. That's great. They have an example for maybe a safe. And this is long and narrow, which is perfect. Yeah. It's almost like a store, right? Lots of places. You could put a lot more shelves way up here to get even more storage. You could even do two more shelves. Yeah. How tall these ceilings are. These ceilings are crazy tall. Yeah. Good. And then your shoe thing right there. Yeah. This is nice again. All right. Where are we going? To the other wing. So it's kind of nice. Children are off to the cells as well as guests. Let's check out the center real quick. It looks like... Okay. So we have the garage door here. So we talked about in the beginning by the front door, that would just be a wall. Right. So the garage is right here. And it's a three-car garage. Oh, nice. Yeah. Three-car tandem. And you don't have to walk through the laundry. It has its own room and the drop zone. Okay. I like this. So again, here, this is great. You get the nine-foot doors, but let me point out something else. Okay. You got nine-foot doors, but we also have... These are kind of older style doors. Yeah. So if you want the more modern doors, again, that's an upgrade. That's why I was saying this home is showing you kind of what... You can still have a beautiful home and not have to spend over the top at the design center. Right. And this is typically the kind of door you get with spec homes. Yeah. This is where the builder tries to... I don't want to say cut corners, but not increase the price very much. And then again, this floor is super fun right now. This is something that will be going out rather soon. This is going to be very dated in a matter of just a few years. We have large washer dryer. You can put more cabinets above here. And then we also have cabinets here. And drawers. You could even put some more uppers up here. And you have a sink. Yeah. Well, again, these are... Plenty of space. Yeah. But how it would come standard, yeah, is just to have this shelf here. So yeah, you could always put cabinets after. Yeah. Or you could, you know, add them when you build, but it'll be at a cost. All right, let's check it out. Oh, I think this is... Closet. It almost looks like a coat closet, but... Let's see what that door goes to. Sometimes they build model homes. A little bit different. Oh, no, you know what it is? What is it? This is the closet to that bedroom. Oh. All right. Actually, yeah, OK. I did not mean to do that. Sorry. That makes sense. That does. OK, yeah. This might also be a closet right here. Again. Yeah. It wouldn't have that, though, right there. That's because, again, there's heavy traffic right there. And this must be a bathroom. I think that's a bathroom. OK. And I think someone might be in there. Someone's in there. OK. And then we've got two bedrooms and we've got someone in here. Hello. Would you say a bedroom sized office? OK. Look at he even has a microwave or toaster in here. Because you don't want to dirty up the kitchen. No, of course not. Look at you guys. He is ready to put these at your house. He's got a whole stack here. Sold. Yes. Awesome. Yeah. And then we also have different colors. Here's the thing, too, guys. When you are buying a new build, you want to get into communities as early as possible. Because you could pick the floor plan you want on which lot and which way it goes, et cetera. Different elevations, different colors. And obviously, here's all the different colors. When you come in later down the road, they have to make sure that the neighborhood isn't the same house literally over and over and over again. So there's limitations when you come in later. Did I nail that? OK. All right. We have more storage right here. There's our hard hats. Oh my gosh. Yep. You know I want to put them on, right? We love our hard hats. Yes. I think you are totally right. Oh, this is great. Another bedroom that they are currently. This is another bedroom. It's actually a really nice sized bedroom, to be honest with you. It's not huge, but it's not small. They've made it a conference room. And then that would be the closet. Yeah. I know it's kind of hard to visualize, but yeah. Love it. I like the floor plan, though. I do, too. All right. This community, in my opinion, is one of the very few surprise pricing with Peoria luxury. Peoria has gotten very expensive. Ever since Taiwan Semiconductor announced that they were going to be moving in, and they have. And we have high paying jobs in the Northwest. But that doesn't mean you have to break the bank to have a home, a beautiful home. And that's what I love about this community. So if you're working anywhere in this technology industry in the semiconductor area, this makes this commute super easy for you, like super, super easy for you. If you are working in the Scottsdale area, this is going to be the closest area for affordable housing. When I look at other surprise communities, I feel like they've toned down the quality and the amenities in the community. I'm just talking about the landscaping, the parks. But this HOA, super affordable, $110 a month. There's pickleball. If you're a pickleball player, you know you're doing good. They also have pocket parks. There's this big center park. There's ramadas. There's a barbecue area. I love all the walking trails, not only through the community, you can pop on out to those little mountains, like I said, but it doesn't go over and above that. We don't have the community pool and an excessive amount of parks. I mean, again, I usually walk my dog to one or two parks in my community, but I don't necessarily need all the different jungle gyms and things like that. And so that's why I feel like this is a more mature neighborhood for the more mature buyer, or again, a young professional or a young couple just starting their lives together and things like that. They do have quite a few larger family style homes, but this to me is what professionals and retirees even, this is a perfect size home. I love the floor plan layout. I love how the master bedroom is separate from everything else. You can do offices if you have dual people living there, working from home, which by the way, this part of Surprise, again, it's so close to Peoria. It's almost like you can just jump on one side of the street and it's Peoria one side of Surprise. It has cell service. Oh my gosh. If you go further West in Surprise, like up on Grand and even over by Asante, the cell service is not good. So if you're working from home, you've got to be 100% reliant on that wifi. You go for a walk with your dog, you lose wifi connection. I know that sounds crazy. And it's been like that for years. I can't believe they've literally sold thousands of homes, again, a little bit further West and those towers haven't come in. If that's a concern of yours, this area had super strong 5G, just to let you know. I also love how close it is to a multitude of shopping and dining areas, either direction, but it's not in the busy line of all the craziness. In fact, if we go back like 15 plus years ago and we look at the draw for Vistancia, not the master plan community kind of thing, but the fact that it was kind of out by itself and quiet and these big beautiful mountain views and affordable, that's what this community reminds me of. You know, for some people it's not convenient. Like if you're a busy person and you wanna get to a bunch of different stores within five or 10 minutes, this is not gonna be for you. If that window of 15 to 20 minutes to different grocery stores, you're gonna be set. So again, you don't have like a circle K right down the road and everything. You're talking about 10 minutes to the nearest grocery store. That's gonna be over by Asante. There's gonna be a lot of congestion from that direction. So personally, I would, I mean, even right now off of Grand Avenue, right off the 303, it's, I don't care what time of day, it is crazy busy. And in the winter time, let me tell you, because there are so many snowbirds in this area, our winter visitors, that exit, Grand Avenue is insane. How they have not made some kind of an interchange. So it's just fluid instead of these lights is beyond me. It's crazy all year long, even not in the winter. The winter is the craziest. So for quick grocery store, you can pop over there. But once you get over to Grand Avenue, it's just insane. So you got grocery store and that's gonna be a whole main, I wouldn't call it major, but it's gonna be a lot more. You're gonna see new businesses popping up probably every six months. So give it a couple of years and you'll have a lot more choices in that area. Today, if I lived in that community, I would be popping over to the Peoria side. I don't know, I'm kind of more of a Peoria girl. I'm literally 10, 15 minutes away. It's absolutely beautiful driving in this direction from Happy Valley Road. Happy Valley Road is a nice, big, wide road. You just, I don't know, it just feels more open. I mean, yeah, you have ugly desert on one side, but that'll improve. But the other side is where everything is all the housing and everything. And you're driving by all these other communities. I'm telling you, I really feel like this community is above all those others in Surprise. And then as you drive into an area that we call Four Corners, those four corners is actually Happy Valley Road and Lake Pleasant Parkway. That is obviously a four corners and it's four corners of every kind of shopping and dining you could possibly think of. I'm just telling you, Peoria is beautiful. Peoria is very expensive now. There's an old part of Peoria, which is gonna be south. And then there's the north part of Peoria that's very expensive. So people are quite shocked. So if you're looking for affordable housing, but you have access to Peoria services, not services, but amenities and shopping and dining, this is the right community for you. If you are a hiker or a biker, which I am a hiker, and I love taking my dog. I love that there's a trail, literally right at the end of my, would be at the end of my street. In fact, there's this beautiful home that I found there. What a win that person got that lot. Has the most amazing, kind of isolated lot. The front yard, easy care, but visually stunning for desert landscaping. And I'm not talking like turf. Turf actually brings in the heat. And if you have little paw prints or paws running around, it's very hot. So it actually creates that heat dome that we don't like. So having a desert landscaping like this home is top notch. And then the backyard, it just, there's literally no one around this house. And they have a pool and they have the mountain view from the front yard. Like it's just, if you're interested in those kinds of lots, they do exist, obviously. They come at a premium, but it's about timing. And it's, let me tell you, relocation buyers usually miss out on these because they don't think about calling an amazing real estate team until they're only a few months out. That kind of a lot acquisition is going to take planning. It's going to take time. You have to call us like 12 to 18 months in advance. We have to talk about future communities that are coming in and you want to be involved in the pre-selling. Those are when those lots go. Most people that pick up these amazing lots that have these mountain views, and I'm not saying all of them, but most of them are locals because they know what's coming in and then they're getting in line to get in line. And we can help you get in that line. Here's what you got to do. Cheryl Willis EXP, scan this QR code. It's going to get you where you want to be. Here's the thing, guys. This is a very unique community. There are still a lot of beautiful, actually half of the homes are still, half of the lots are still available. And I feel like again, it's close enough to these mountains, the shopping, the dining, the employment. Gosh, I also, you know what? If you're looking for shopping mall, it's not close to one, it's two. You have two over here. Not super close. Again, this is that, it's a little remote, okay? So you're going to be 10 minutes outside of town. That's all like, that to me is doable. When you get into town, then what do you got? Like how much further do you have to go? You have two malls nearby. You have Arrowhead, which is a, I don't want to say a luxury mall, but it has higher end stores. One of my favorite, Macy's is right over here. And also the organization stores over here. Like if you are someone that likes to be super uber organized, you're going to love the container store over here. Also in a little different direction is Prasada. Prasada is also right off. Both of these are right off freeways. So they're easy to get to. And so there's going to be, again, more dining and not a lot of entertainment yet, but shopping, everything from Walmart to Costco, to restaurants, to dining. And I mean, again, it just, the list keeps getting longer of all the stores that are going in there, the big box stores and Ross and things like that. Also, if you're a spring training person, you're going to love being only 20, 30 minutes away from Peoria Sports Complex. Now, again, this isn't surprise, but you really get the benefits of everything that Peoria has to offer. And that's what I like about this particular community. I'm not a huge surprise, like, you know, fan, because I feel like, well, not, I feel like I know it's, it's just housing. They're building housing and the shopping. It will come, it will, it will. But when you're raising children or you're getting older, you don't have five, 10 years to wait for all this stuff to come in. You want to be able to have it now. And so when I look at buying a home and helping our client, we want to talk about your quality of life and what you expect. Nobody wants to spend an extra hour on the road. Once upon a time, Arizona had a, what they used to call a commute shed. The commute shed was usually 25 to 26 minutes. That's what Arizona, Phoenix was like so proud of. That has changed to 45 minutes. And in some case, even an hour. So you want to use when you're not working and when you're not commuting home, you want to make sure that you have resources and amenities and whatever's important to you within 15, 20 minutes. This is a 15 minute area. If you're a 10 minute person, you're going to want to go to a busier city or you're going to have to pay more or you're going to have to go an older home. Here's the thing, guys. No one knows the entire Valley like we do. We are not just area specialists. We are Valley specialists. So if you're really trying to weigh out the pros and cons, like where do I go and what do I get? And what's good over here? What's the trade-offs? There's always trade-offs. You've got to give us a call. Shoot us a text, send us an email, days, nights or weekends and holidays. We're here for you. We got your back. Give us a call. Like I said, 12 to 18 months, maybe even two years. If you're looking for one of these prime lots on communities that are coming up. We are here for you. No matter what you're thinking of, resale or new construction, we want to be your source for resources. No, your resource for sources, source for resource. You get the picture. All right, guys. Cheryl Willis, EXP. Can't wait to hear from you. Bye.