You may have been living in Bay Area for a while and consider buying or selling a house. You may think about or are in the process of relocating to Bay Area. Below is a pool of resources that you can use to find out about the neighbourhoods, schools and other communities info of a particular area you are interested in.
For local opinions about a neighbourhood in Bay Area:
http://www.trulia.com/voices/
http://www.movoto.com/neighborhood.aspx
Want to know how the schools perform in different counties in Bay Area:
http://www.greatschools.net/
For 2008 School API reports http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap/apireports.asp You can select the reports by district, by county, etc. It also has the previous year's report for you to compare
Locate a school for your interested house
Some school districts have online school locator that allows you to input the address of a property and find out the schools associated to a particular address:
San Jose
Evergreen Elementary School Locator: http://eesd.org/html/schoolinfo.html
East Side Union High School Locator: http://www.schvision.com/schoolfinder2/ESUHSD/
Milpitas
Milpitas Unified School Locator: http://www.schvision.com/schoolfinder2/milpitasusd/default.asp
You can also call the unified school district for which your interested house belong to to verify the school info.
Look for optimized mortgage rate to buy a house or refinance
Get a grip of the overall mortgage market: www.bankrate.com
Find a local mortgage expert to get a free quote and daily updates: www.easyhomeloanservice.com
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