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Originally Posted by yads
Thanks for the responses guys. What about smells? I know someone who was living in a duplex in Silver Springs (old one) and they could smell cigarette smoke in their half all of the time when the neighbors were smoking.
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I live in an attached house, and from inside, I can't smell anything from my neighbor's house. Granted, they're nonsmokers, so it would only be cooking smells, but I can only smell those, sometimes, in the backyard.
We can, occasionally, hear someone slam a door/drawer/cupboard next door, but we can't hear talking/yelling/peeing/*bow*chicka*wowow* sounds...and I know that we are just as guilty of being "slammy" sometimes. It is something that you just have to live with, you are sharing a wall.
Make SURE you talk to the neighbors before you put in an offer, to see what they're like, and see if you can live with them. If the infill you're looking at is anything like the one we live in, you have a common roof on your house and your garage...if the shingles ever need to be replaced, or anything needs to be done to the party wall, or even if the landscaping needs to be fixed (our front yards were landscaped as if it was one big front yard...looks nice, but there really isn't a your side/my side distinction) the job will have to be split between the two of you, and you need to make sure you get along.
For us, parking isn't an issue, as we both have double car garages. Most of the homes on our block (both sides) have garages, so there is tons of onstreet parking.
I will also say this- an attached infill can give you anywhere from 200 to 500 extra square feet of living space, compared to a standalone infill on half a lot, because you don't need the space allowance between the houses.