Anyone here live or know someone who lives in Lake Royale today? (or did recently).

thinking about buying house there.

1/19/2014 10:00:46 AM

the HOA sucks donkey balls

1/19/2014 10:05:23 AM

I know nothing recently, but that area was in my school district in high school. I liked the area a lot. The houses that I went in to were pretty nice. Most of the spoiled kids lived there because it was fairly new and upscale back then, as in late 90s. Louisburg is a little run down but you have a Super WalMart now and El Perrico. Mmmm. Bunn is growing slowly. You aren't so far from Raleigh if you need big city life.

1/19/2014 10:08:04 AM

i've been told HOA/POA is about 600-700 a year.

I can deal with that. It's used to fund the police, repair roads, etc.

I actually currently live near Bunn, so not a whole change of life.

1/19/2014 10:15:55 AM

Lake Royale with Cheese

1/19/2014 3:36:58 PM

My hoa is 150 a year

1/19/2014 5:33:04 PM

$180/yr for me

but i'm in bumfuck

1/19/2014 10:16:12 PM

A family from my church lives there. They had a few of us over several years ago, so I am not sure if much has changed, but I doubt it. I had two impressions:
1)This is a neighborhood in the middle of BFE. If I lived that far out, I would want tons of land and not have my neighbor sitting on top of me.
2) There are all sorts of types of houses. There didn't seem to be a consistent style, or price range of house. So a 3k Sqft house could be sitting next to a 1200 sqft adjusted trailer home. Kind of defeats the purpose of a HOA.

1/20/2014 11:32:42 AM

Their version of Section 8 is down by the dam. Stay away.

1/26/2014 12:04:08 AM

yeah i met a guy at work whos lived out there 12 years. He gave me the low down on the good parts / bad parts.

1/26/2014 10:39:27 AM

my aunt and uncle used to have a place there in the 80s...

and when i say "place," i mean "camper"


my dad always said the road system there clearly had to be designed by a drink chinaman...

i wasn't sure what that meant....but the streets were curvy as hell...really narrow...and made no damn sense...

1/28/2014 2:43:50 AM

^^ what are they?

1/28/2014 10:11:37 AM

We've built about a dozen or so houses out there since the 90's. Theft is common in the area near the trailers and such, but you can drive 5 min to the back side of the lake and be in 1/2 Million dollar homes. The last house we build in there last year was a super modern $400K+ home.

Overall, like a previous poster mentioned...its an inconsistent neighborhood. Not a fan myself, but there are some really nice areas.

1/30/2014 7:35:31 AM

^^ there is a neighborhood dump area - stay away from that.
There is also a stretch of straight road they called the "drag strip" - everyone flies down it. Stay away from that.
There is the campers as folks mentioned - stay away


fyi - we didn't get the house. Our offer wasn't rejected they "the seller" went with "a previously submitted offer"

1/31/2014 7:14:43 AM