Watch fireworks from your staircase, enjoy easy in-n-out entry with an end unit, feel the true community feeling in this quaint, gated community and bask in the natural light that flows into this home facing the canyon. Schools including Aviara Oaks Elementary or Poinsettia, Aviara Oaks Middle School and Carlsbad High or Sage Creek are all 8,9,10 school scores. One of the best locations in the neighborhood with canyon views and an enclosed patio on on the end of the building providing more privacy and entertaining area (not on the roadside). Enjoy the coastal lifestyle in your light & bright, open floor plan providing a great room stretching from your updated kitchen to dining room to family room. Retire upstairs to your primary bedroom with walk-in closet and en suite bathroom on its own side of the home. Upstairs you will also find a nice loft with loads of sunlight and a workplace for your home office as well as your secondary bedrooms on the other side of home with full bathroom and laundry room. Brand new flooring throughout downstairs. New light fixtures in all baths, solid core office door, double stair rails, grab bars in showers/tub, reverse osmosis system in kitchen, whole house water-filter and water softener systems, extra storage racks installed in garage, custom frosted glass kitchen cabinet doors, fabulous electric fireplace with colored lights. Enjoy gated living with your own parks, playground, entertainment area currently offering bocci, bbq, picnic tables and plenty of room to walk your dog. Close to all your amenities - Vons, BlackRail, shops, restaurants, banks and more. The beaches are just a few miles west - quick access down Poinsettia to South Carlsbad State Beach and the 101.