Nancy,
San Jose is a large city, but there are many factors that go into making it a great place to live and raise a family, not just zip code. For the best way to determine the schools to locate around, I've provided a link below to the API scores for California - San Jose is in Santa Clara County. Have a look at it and maybe it can help point you in the right direction.
Best
Bruce Peters
Realty World-JLI Properties
JLIProperties.com - Sun Apr 27 2008, 00:49
At my MLS board, I've been told that you only have to state somewhere - something like "price and terms are subject to lender approval" to get around the MLS rules, contractual gotchas, etc..
It's clearly a tactic to get multiple bids going, (and it unfortunately works) enabling the lender to pick the highest - without any contractual downside because the lender is not legally a party to the transaction. Neat huh? - Wed Apr 23 2008, 00:12
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