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Originally Posted by Sliver
Building is awesome. We built in 2003 and ended up with a sick house. With all-new and warrantied appliances and a years-long maintenance holiday, you avoid so many unexpected costs that you face in an older house. There also isn't the need/desire to update and renovate. New houses are the best.
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I won't argue those benefits, there is definitely something to be said for building new but there are also downsides. We build new in 1997 and I'm not sure I would it again. We were neither disappointed in the process but also not 100% happy. New or older, I am open to either when we make out next move.
Downsides:
1. landscaping. As in there is none so you either do it yourself or have it done. Either way it's a significant cost and even once it's done you still don't have that nice mature yard to enjoy for the first 10-15 years.
2. your street and neighborhood will be a construction zone for the next few years unless you happen to be the last home under construction in your area.
3. practically no development of any kind for several years at best. No commercial (ie stores), limited to no transit, probably no schools etc. Be prepared to spend a lot of time in your vehicle. My community had no schools for the first 10 years we were there.
I guess if you are building an infill many of these things would not apply.