You may have read that Vegas is a rapidly growing city. Thousands of people move to the Las Vegas Valley every month, and many of those people have kids. Those kids, in turn, go to school. And that means that the Clark County School District is almost continually building new schools and hiring new teachers. If you are a teacher, and you are thinking of moving to Las Vegas, I have good news for you. The school district would like to help you buy a house:

Under the proposed agreement, dubbed Teachers First, the Nevada Housing Division would offer teachers — most of whom would be first-time homeowners — up to five years of payment assistance on a home or condominium mortgage for a maximum of $15,000.

Yesterday, I toured a new Master Planned community that will have two elementary schools and a junior high (there is already a high school about a mile away). The first of these schools is scheduled to open for the 2009-2010 school year. There were brand new 3 bedroom single family homes available for under $200,000. You can afford to move here and buy a house. I’ll tell you more about it later!