Hi L.,
Please give Rene Vellinga at Re/Max of Louisville a call. ###-###-#### or check out his website at searchcoloradohomes.com. Great guy, will WORK for you. He lives in Louisville and is very familiar with Boulder County--the area you are looking in. He has been working in this area for many years, probably 10-15. He has children in the schools in Louisville, which are pretty good schools. You can check out the Boulder Valley School District on line and look at how they score in standarize testing. The other school district in the Longmont/Erie area is St. Vrain school district. You can also find information on that school district on line. We live in Erie which is 20 minutes from Boulder. It is a very family friendly community (there are 17 kids just on our cul-de-sac) and is a growing community. My husbands office is in Boulder--It's a very easy commute to Boulder from here. Erie is also only 20 minutes from Longmont and about 30-35 minutes to downtown Denver (in good traffic).
I hope this helps. My husbands family is from Texas. He grew up in Lubbock. If you would like any more information on the area, I would be glad to answer any other questions. And if you need a mortgage lender when you get ready to buy up here, my husband, Brian, has a mortgage company in Boulder, Crowder Mortgage. Please call him if you would like to get prequalified or would just like to walk through the process before you start looking for a house. His number is ###-###-####.
Cheers!
~Cindi Crowder