Buy location and sacrifice everything else if you are looking to retain property value. Real estate is so flat right now and who knows what could happen.
Even renting is still a positive option in this market.
You are trying to hard to meet to many criteria, which means you need to limit what you want to 2-3 items. Make a list of everything you want, but choose 3 priorities each and find that property. You can't have it all when starting out.
There will be some give and take.
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