One question home buyers love to ask real estate agents:
"Is this a safe neighborhood?"
But everyone knows crime occurs in every neighborhood. "How much crime and what kind of crime occurs in this neighborhood" is a better question. And home buyers need to understand, when it comes to such an important and personal matter, it's best if they do this research themselves.
(BTW, in my opinion any real estate agent who answers that first question, "YES" cares more about getting a paycheck than doing the best job they can for YOU.)
Here's a couple of websites you can use to get answers (and not just for neighborhoods between Denver and Boulder, they cover other states too):
www.crimereports.com (which claims to be the largest and most comprehensive crime-mapping network in the world)
and
www.raidsonline.com (you can sign up for alerts within your pre-determined radius of any address)
Some of the information you can find:
crime density maps
list of sex offenders
times of day when crimes occur most
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I write posts on real estate issues and local events in the Denver metro area, especially those *communities between Denver and Boulder, as a public service. My hope is to give people an idea of the 'flavor' of our community, in case they're new or moving to the Denver area.
I am a residential real estate agent, happily helping folks buy a house or sell a house in the beautiful and friendly *suburbs northwest of Denver.
*Arvada, Broomfield, Lafayette, Louisville, Superior, Westminster; also Thornton, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Northglen, Lakewood
Read more about Arvada Colorado, a historic small town between Denver and Boulder.
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