Woodbury - Stonetree Manor

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Yes. Our home is in the same area you looked at. Very close to the park and school.





If I'm not mistaken, many of the zero lot-line homes are less than 3,000 square feet. The non-zero lot-line homes are slightly more than 3,000 square feet, while the corner lots are 3,500-3,700 sq feet.





My wife agreed that the STM homes seem fairly well thought out, much more so than some of their recent attached offerings (Celadon, etc)...





-OCR
 
Time for another update...





We locked our interest rate at 6.125% with 1.625 points, which is 0.375 points lower than in March. Conforming loans are now at least 1/2 to 3/4 points higher than non-conforming, so I'm glad we saved up what we did to get our mortgage under $417K.





The house is almost complete and the appliances are now installed, which means that all the homes are now locked. We opted for basic carpet and the cheap tile. I figure we'll upgrade when the time comes.





Closing date moved back about a week to the 21st of November, which in our case is good because that means less due at signing (prorated interest and taxes). It also means our Thanksgiving will be spent moving in.





Village association dues went up by $5 to $105...which seems like bad news if they're increasing HOA dues already...





One question for the IHBers out there...I'm sick of AT&T DSL. Does anyone have experience with Cox cable modem service? Is there any service comparable to Verizon FIoS?





-OCR
 
I had Cox for a while for Internet. The speed was decent (but to be honest didn't seem significantly faster to the DSL I have now). The price was too much IMO. Service itself tended to be pretty reliable, but there were a number of times where it would go out for brief periods.
 
<p>We use Cox for telephone, fax, cable, and interent. We are happy.</p>

<p>Good luck with your move. I'm in the middle of a move right now - boxes everywhere!</p>
 
<p>OCR, </p>

<p>I bet you are very excited about your new home! Congrads again! I think the association due always has been $105. Stonetree might have mis-printed on their brochure?.</p>

<p>I have had Cox Cable since 2000. I have no problems at all ( Well, now that I said it, it probably will quit on me tonight!) I think I experienced outage only once in the last seven years. Speed has always been fine. I never used DSL, so I really don't have a comparison. Cable is faster than DSL in general. </p>

<p>Also, Cox now installs a device in your network closet that combines the digital phone svs and cable modem function. This means you won't even need to buy your own cable modem anymore. The only trick is if you need to reset the modem, powering down won't do it due to an internal battery backup. So you actually have to unplug, and take out the backup battery in order to reboot. </p>

<p>Hope this helps. Now I have to go back to prepare my presentations. </p>

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Cox is fine for Cable Modem. But for Cable TV. Overpriced and flakey service. Really missing the boat on High Definition the dish a better choice for TV.
 
<p>What do you mean "missing the boat on High Definition" ? If you have a High Definition Cable box, I really don't think the picture can get any better. You can see the hairs growing out of Jack Bauer's ears on 24. (I realize he is trying to save the world, but he really needs to do something about that). </p>

<p>But seriously, excluding price, is the dish better than cable TV? I've never used a dish so I can't compare.</p>
 
<p>There are significantly more HD channels available by dish (DirecTV at least, which is what I used to have). Cable's also miserable for me as a sports fan, since cable doesn't carry as much in HD - for instance, on satellite they would have at least 1game a night in HD when you subscribe to the baseball package. Never on cable - not nearly as many channels are set up to broadcast things in HD, which is one reason why they had to override one of their other channels to carry some of the local baseball games this year. It's even more unfortunate that they don't carry TBS in HD yet where I am, so I'm missing out on the playoffs.</p>

<p>Cable also has many fewer channels in HD than satellite (DirecTV is finally rolling out some new HD channels...they said they were going to have 150 of them, but kept pushing back when they were going to do it). </p>

<p>There's also the issue of the DVR. Mine, at least, is a joke. Not only does it not record programmed shows from time to time (recording error), but the program guide is very very slow when I'm on HD channels. Granted, that's more of a cable box problem than their whole service. I used to have tivo through directv, and it was great. </p>
 
a satellite (whether att dish network or directv) bundle of digital cable, hd, and dvr will be cheaper and have far more channels than an equivalent cox bundle. i've been doing the same research for myself recently. going with the cable company however will be far more convenient! most of the new homes were designed for cable tv and internet. for internet i have dsl and since there's no phone jack in the master bedroom closet where the media hub is, i cant stick my gateway there. not a big deal since everything is wireless these days but it sort of made all that pre-wiring pointless unless i used my cable company for all my communication needs.
 
<p>did any of you have bad installation experiences with the DirectTV? They seem to do a bad job on the exterior wall of my neighbours. I am afraid it might leak after the installation. Those guys are not experts in patching up stuccos, and roof. </p>

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<p>I have DirecTV. The installers drilled a hole into my wall, which punctured my ventilation pipe from the air conditioner outside to the 2nd floor vents. Good thing is that the installers hired someone to come and fix the ventilation piping, but i didn't have the AC when it was over 100 degrees for 3 days. </p>

<p>Still, if anyone asks me if I like DirecTV compared to any cable (Cox, Adelphia, Time Warner... tried'em all), DirecTV just kicks butt. More channels, costs less, and way more digital channels. Oh... and I want HDNet, and Cox and Adelphia both denied me access to it. Greedy bastards....</p>
 
I've had just about all the cable companies too at one point...Cox, Comcast, Time Warner. Man, was Comcast bad. I agree with blue...DirecTV kicks butt. Way more HD, and way more digital channels. I made a deal with my wife that when we do finally buy a place or move into some place where we're going to stay for at least a little while, I get to have a dish. That's probably the second call I'm going to make...right after getting electricity activated
 
<p>What is the policy at IAC Apartments for putting a dish? I've seen some of the Woodbury Apartments with them, but don't know how they go about getting it. I'm moving out there in a month, and I need my DirecTV.</p>
 
<p>Can TIVO record in HD yet? We record everything first via the DVR, and then watch the shows without commercials. I can't remember the last time I watched a commercial. I would be lost without the DVR. </p>
 
Blue: just about every single apartment has a dish on its patio in my IAC community. Personally, I went to Radio Shack and bought modern rabbit ears. Free HD and regular tv. That's just my speed!
 
Do I need any special paperwork or permission from the apartment office prior to installation? Anyone know?





TIVO does have a HD version out, but it's not all that cheap. Personally, I miss the good'ol days of TIVO when I could just pay a flat rate upfront and enjoy it for the life of the machine.
 
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