Coyote Creek

update review after staying for 6 months
1) HOA board is piece of crap and things don’t move fast enough to get some important issues addressed.
2) building construction is utmost cheap quality with low grade materials used in building. door knobs fall off, electrical issues. walls are so thin that you can literally hear neighbor snoring or coughing.
3) you can feel milpitas garbage smell most days in summer. this has nothing to do with builder.
4) guest parking is hard to find due to less number of spots compared to houses.
4) and finally i regret purchasing here

The townhouses here are so much better than the other ones coming up in Milpitas:
a. Good construction and nice layouts with balconies — to let a lot of sunlight and air inside.
b. In a quiet and green area — away from the Great Mall/​Montague traffic and noise. But still close to the freeways and light rail (and future BART) station.
c. We have been loving the gym and pool! And the HOA isn’t too bad.
d. Right on the Coyote Creek trail and thus you can go for a jog or bike any time.
e. Due to the location/​wind direction, you get the Milpitas smell I’d say less than a handful of times per year.

Looking for a new place to live can be stressful, but this place didn’t push us or make us feel lost. We arrived and parked in one of the sales spaces. We went into the sales office and the sales person gave us all the material we needed and told us about where the models were located and we were on our way.
Like A A. This place is within the Sandisk/​KLA Tencor work places so I would assume this place would be quiet during the weekends and nights which is a plus. It’s very close to McCarthy Ranch and relatively close to all the major highways (a little further for me to 680, but eh, that’s not a big deal.).
This might be a potential place!

+ Walk to work if you work at Cisco, SanDisk, Samsung, KLA-​Tencor
+ Convenient location, close to EVERYTHING, easy access to 237, 880, 101 freeways
+ Walking distance to many asian restaurants, supermarket, 1 mile from in&out, black angus, mexican girll, taco bell, mcdonald, bofa, fells fargo
+ Grocery shopping great mall, wal-​mart, best buy, home depot, costco within 5 – 10 mins driving
+ Decent starter home price for new home buyers.
+ Quiet neighborhood, not facing main expressway, more quiet on weekend
+ Modern floorplan vs 30 – 40 years old single family house nearby (I can’t stand the low ceilings)
+ Right next to a walking trail, basketball and tennis court
+ Club house + gym + pool + community kitchen + pet spa
— Lack of high API schools? spangler elementary is 844. I predict the API of nearby schools will improve since the residents would likely work nearby the high tech company
— «The smell» you smell it maybe 10−15days out of a year mostly in the summer when the wind blow at the right direction.
— HOA $ 250/​month
— Lack of backyard /​planting area?