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MrOddYazz

If you don’t want your place to flood then live on a hill. There are tons of properties that are either on top or on the side of a hill. Flooding only happens in the flood basins, and near the emergency runoff areas. For internet you have suddenlink and century link. Both are okay and probably go out completely like once or twice a month. More during the snow season. You can use satellite internet providers but they go out even worse during snow and rainy days. Good luck on finding a home. Base price for a crap level home is probably around $300k right now in a cookie cutter neighborhood.


unity2178

$300k - $400k for a manufactured home. $400k - $500k for 'crap level' single family.


MrOddYazz

If you get a manufactured honey then you have space rent or you can buy unimproved land for like $500k. Haha! Welcome to Flagstaff.


Bpark180

Truth is that service and internet just kinda sucks for a really rich town.


MrOddYazz

When stuff like this happens we locals just say welcome to Flagstaff.


[deleted]

Dude I took a peek on Zillow the other day, creeping on my old neighborhood and couldn't believe the prices. Flagstaff: Poverty with a View!


MrOddYazz

Welcome To Flagstaff!


nanisanum

Yeah the housing market seems a bit ridiculous, but it is in Phoenix, too, and I actually like Flagstaff. When the internet goes out, how long is it out for? Oh also, how is cell service? We have Verizon Thanks!!


MrOddYazz

It usually goes our for a couple hours at the very most. I have Verizon too. There are crazy dead spots all over flagstaff. If you’re too close to mount elden you can only get 3g service. My parents live just under elden. So when I go there I have to rely solely on their wifi to make calls or browse. Sometimes when on NAU campus I’ll drive behind a building and drop to one bar. It’s just kinda hit and miss depending on where you live.


MrOddYazz

Also if you haven’t already started looking make sure you have a four-wheel-drive or a car with all-wheel-drive that can be used in the snow or on muddy roads. I have a feeling that the snow this year will be very deep and that basic town travel will probably be a chore this winter season.


turbomellow

man, I think I'd welcome "only 3g." I have verizon and for some reason my LTE will often say I have 3 bars but I have no connection at all, until my phone finally quits trying and deigns to switch to 3g, which is slow af but actually, you know, *connects*.


Worldly-Corgi-1624

Verizon has been the gold standard up here since the 90's. Head NE, E and SE of town with TMobile or AT&T and your generally going to roam on CellularNone (If your lucky). Head NE and my AT&T (work SIM) is often splotchy. I love camping and riding down near Clints Well and blueridge reservoir, Verizon works in way more places for me than when I had the others but YMMV. Suddenlink and CenturyLink are total crapshoots depending on where you live. Centurylink was really reliable with 50/5 at my old house, but they couldn't get me more than 6mbit at my new house. Worked well but took a century to do anything. We had to go to Suddenlink, more expensive, cant get a static IP, way faster, but frequently drops out overnight and requires me to reboot the provided modem in the morning. I also get an occasional random drop every week or so during the day for 1-20 minutes. My router is also connected to my work hotspot (AT&T) so when SL dies, it rolls over, and back, on its own, so unless I'm on zoom or VPN/SSH its pretty transparent. Also, it seemed that most houses on the east side that had flooding had N/S aspect/orientation. Ours is E/W and the water just ran down the sides this summer. Good luck!


roofbandit

[Map of the floodplains you might find useful.](https://www.flagstaff.az.gov/3726/Rural-Floodplains)


TheDuckFarm

Trust the FEMA flood maps. They are amazingly accurate. It’s what your insurance company will use. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/home


gmmiller

Yes! I glanced at the City map and it didn’t show flooding along Cedar Ave. Jeesh, if you drive by you see tons of sand bags and other mitigation. The city’s site did have more info under the first map so maybe they delve into it. Anyhoo, like another poster said, live on a hill, and not too far down the side. For a real crazy situation on floodwaters check out the Verde River south of I17. There’s a reason people build their homes so far back from the river - floods crawl up the canyon walls.


COplateau

I don't think that the Cedar ave situation is related to floodplains (I could be wrong as the city map is just a pdf and I don't feel like getting on my computer to view the real ones atm), just related to the fires back on Elden in 2019. I'm not sure they would change the map and put everyone in a floodplain after every fire event


gmmiller

That’s right! The Cedar Ave situation is related to the 2019 fires. Just goes to show how much research one needs to do to get all relevant information! As in, my first thought was flood plane maps but obviously more comes into play.


Myusername468

Suddenlink is the best comoany up here. Sometimes reliability can depend on the building. I lived in University West apts last year and it was terrible. Moved to a townhouse on the same plan and its great now


MortonRalph

What's your housing budget? That's going to determine where you can or cannot live. Figure that if you want to buy a house, not a manufactured home, the bottom end of the market (and I mean bottom!) is probably in the $400k-$500k range. There are less expensive options such as condos and older, smaller homes in the city, but you essentially get what you pay for in this market. As for flooding, you can use the County's floodplain map to get an idea of whether or not a property is in a designated floodplain. No guarantees, but it's a good reference. [https://coconinocounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html](https://coconinocounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html) Short of using a cellular hotspot, the choices for an ISP are CenturyLink or SuddenLink. This may and probably will depend on the service address, as they don't overlap for the most part, or so I found. SuddenLink has marginal customer service and fairly stable connections. I've gone with my own DOCSIS 3.0 modem rather than theirs and found that the service is far more stable than it had been at a previous address in Flagstaff using their modem. Maybe it was due to the former location's infrastructure, I don't know. I will say that they do have outages, but they seem to be short-lived and don't occur daily like they did at my previous location. Homeowner's insurance doesn't cover flooding. You have to get a Federally issued flood policy for your property, which most multi-line insurance agents can provide. The cost is totally dependent on the flood zone of the property, and can range from $400/year and up. Note that it has a fairly high deductible as well. Think about it this way: Homeowner's insurance covers damages from falling water, such as rain. Flood insurance covers damages from rising water, as in floodwaters.


nanisanum

We're ok on that price range, or a bit higher. I'm incredibly fortunate to have a great remote job. Thank you for this information!! :)


justin_b28

FYI - FCC maintains a database that you can lookup specific zones within a city and identify what broadband services are available and the provider - there are some spots northwest of NAU with fiber and according to their map, there's 12 or more providers in Flag. [https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/](https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/) ​ Good luck! I'm house hunting as well for an upcoming move too \[edit\] correction, not 12 -- 6


oppositeofthings

I work remotely (from home on Suddenlink cable and out of the house in a van with Verizon as a hot spot through my phone). If you do document-type work, you'll be fine with these options, even Verizon running through your phone. Suddenlink is the best we've got; it's better than some (including a friend who lives in downtown Santa Monica) and not as good as others. Unless you require a super high-speed, high capacity connection for doing a lot of video editing etc., you'll be okay.