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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s totally false that new homes are made with cheaper materials that aren’t as high of quality as older homes. It’s all about maintenance and whether the people who built and maintained it did a decent job either way. If you move into an older home that has been well maintained, you are going to be fine. Our first home was build in the later 1800s but it was well maintained and renovated in the mid 2000s. We had zero issues with it. We are now in a tear down/new build and also have zero issues. If you don’t maintain anything, it’s going to deteriorate no matter how well it was constructed or how good the materials were. If it wasn’t constructed well to begin with, you are going to have to put money in to fix it but it’s hard to know that going in and the age of a house won’t tell you anything about construction quality. [/quote]

Partially true but many things included in older homes that simply aren’t available or used any more—old growth wood floors, moldings and windows, slate roofs (available but no longer widely used on new homes of cost), plaster walls.  Even most appliances are now built for a 5 to 10 lifespan.[/quote]

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