| You have found the house in a good neighborhood in | | | | school you thought your children are going to go to. |
| a gold school district. You move in and get settled. | | | | The lesson here is to make sure that you check out |
| The house is great. Your neighbors are great. The | | | | where your new home is located with respect to the |
| only thing left to do is take the kids to school and | | | | boundaries of the school districts. This not only |
| register them. | | | | affects what school your children will go to, but also |
| You get in your car and drive down to the school. | | | | other services you may thought you're going to get. |
| You even took the case with you to show them | | | | You may have thought by the mailing address of |
| where they will be going. You walk into the school | | | | your new home that the township would be coming |
| office and inform the people in their what you want | | | | to pick up your trash. Once you discover that the |
| to do. They give you all the paperwork and welcome | | | | mailing address is not actually in that township, the |
| you to the new school. After about 25 to 35 minutes | | | | ttrash service is up to the homeowner to contract |
| filling out all the papers, you hand them over to the | | | | with a private trash company. You may have also |
| secretary. The secretary looks over the papers and | | | | thought that snowplowing was included because of |
| give you your shocking news of the day. | | | | the location of your new home. Again, you find this |
| She tells you that your children cannot go to this | | | | to not be true since your physical location of the |
| school. She tells you that you are not in this school | | | | new home is in a different township. You discover |
| district. You are not only surprised but annoyed at | | | | that no one is actually going to plow snow in your |
| the same time. You asked the secretary why they | | | | neighborhood unless a bunch of neighbors get |
| cannot go to the school. You explain to her that you | | | | together and hire a private contractor. |
| do live in the school district and that your address | | | | Whenever you buying a new home, be sure to |
| proves it. | | | | check the boundaries and the physical location of |
| The secretary informed you that your mailing | | | | your new home before you buy to see what school |
| address makes it look like you belong in this particular | | | | district is actually in and what services are actually |
| school district. The reality is that the physical location | | | | going to be supplied by the government agencies |
| of your new home is actually in another school | | | | that are responsible for services in that particular |
| district. Your home address is just a mailing address it | | | | area. |
| does not fall within the boundaries of the actual | | | | |