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[quote=Anonymous]Our first home was a 30+ year old town house. All of the townhouses in our development had plumbing issues. The builder clearly had plumbing issues...  Other than that, we loved it. We did replace the windows and the previous owner had redone the floors and the kitchen.

We then bought a tear-down in S. Arlington and built a brand new house (builder was NDI). We've been in the new house now for almost 3 years. We're really pretty happy with the construction.  We've not had any issues yet.  NDI was a very affordable builder. We didn't have a huge budget for upgrades, but ther baseline choices were pretty good.

We chose this route because my husband is a big guy and grew up in a big house and he just couldn't stand the small room sizes in Arlington houses.  I loved a lot of the older homes we looked at and worried that we would miss some of the uniqueness and charm of an older home. We tried to integrate a few unique features into our new house, but it definitely does still feel just a little generic sometimes to me. Still, I think it was a good compromise for us.

I should say that we also tried to be sensitive to the neighborhood that we built in. Almost none of the houses on our street have a garage or, if they do, they only have a 1 car garage. We were very turned off by the idea of building a brand new house with a big honkin' 2-car garage right on the front of it. We chose a design that we thought would blend into the neighborhood, as much as possible. (not easy when you're building a new house on an old street!)

I do still dream of someday owning an older house again, but definitely one that's been updated!!![/quote]

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