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Making the buy-or-build decision in Surprise Arizona
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When you first find out that you have an upcoming relocation to Surprise Arizona, one of your first decisions is whether to look at new homes in Surprise Arizona or existing homes in Surprise Arizona. You can also contract to have a home built to your specifications. While it may be tempting to build a new home from scratch, you have to factor in the stress of not having a permanent home during the months of construction. You may want to consider “spec” homes that builders have almost completed. This will give you the freedom to choose colors and styles, but will also enable you to move into your new home shortly after your relocation to Surprise Arizona. I have friends that lived in a 2 room efficiency motel for 5 ½ months (with 2 children and a dog!) while their home was being built. She told me that she would never do that again. She loved having a new home, but has decided that if she ever moves across country again, she will not subject her family to that experience again.
The city was founded in 1937 by real estate developer and state legislator Homer C. Ludden, who named it after his hometown of Surprise, Nebraska. Although there were only a few houses and a gas station on the one-mile-square parcel of land when Ludden subdivided it to build inexpensive houses for agricultural workers, Surprise has experienced tremendous growth in the years since. Tens of thousands of retirees moved to the city in the 1990s and early 2000s to live in Sun City Grand, an age-restricted resort-like community, with homes built by the property development firm Del Webb. (Surprise is about five miles northwest of Del Webb's original Sun City development.) Since it opened in 1996, Sun City Grand has become a large contributor to the city's population, which more than quadrupled from 10,187 to about 75,000 in 2004.[1] (The city's population is now considerably larger than Ludden's hometown, which had a population of 44 in the 2000 United States Census.) -- Source: Wikipedia.com AskMe a Question About Surprise, ArizonaTo ask a question or make a comment about Surprise, Arizona Click Here. Census Data for Surprise, Arizona
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