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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Consider starter homes when people got married in their 20s when we think about starter homes.  Now people get married and have ykids at 40... yes, they want a nicer place.  [/quote]

Plus, let's not forget that the "starter homes" of yesteryear are now 70+ year old homes, often with deferred maintenance issues, and aren't especially cheap either.[/quote]
All houses require maintenance.  So many people try to buy a new home thinking that it won't need much maintenance only to discover issues with the build that require tons of work, from mis-installed plumbing to nail pops to bad drainage to terrible plant landscaping choices or no landscaping to stupid kitchen design to defective appliances.  The new build next door to us had a builder install MDF as exterior trim.  It swelled with rain the following summer and every bit of trim on the house had to be replaced.  The builder was no where to be found.  Another new build up the street was installed with terrible drainage and 3 months into owning the home they had a storm at 6' of water in their basement.  It cost them $300k to install water mitigation.  The new build across the street from us had all the landscaping die because it was improperly selected and planted so the house looks like poop and needs entirely new landscaping--not cheap.

There's a lot to be said about a tastefully renovated older home.   Ours is 84 years old and was in rough shape when we bought from deferred maintenance, but we've tastefully renovated and it's now really nice.  I cringe when I walk through a McMansion new build and see crappy vinyl windows, ugly MDF trim, crooked tile backsplashes, and poorly thought out layouts.  New builds in the DMV are full of bad build quality and poor design choices. [/quote]

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