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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend moved into a brand new build in 2016. It was so trendy and in style, I remember being so envious.

She recently informed me she’s moving back home and put her house up for sale. Nosily, I went in search of the listing on Zillow and I was in SHOCK by how dated everything looked, and it’s only been 7 years!

We live in a nearly 100yo home that we classically updated in a transitional style back in 2009, and I’m blown away by the comparison. Those cheap builder-grade on-trend elements just don’t age well. What a shame!

I’m just trying to imagine all the modern farm houses and those black and white shiplap-style houses in ten years. [/quote]

cool story. You know those "trendy" things that make farmhouse are just veneer and can be changed easily, with less effort and cost than rehabbing a 100-year-old shi!shack. In fact you admit yourself that the 100 year old shi!tshack needed rehabbing which includes core systems, building code, and you can't change things like ceiling heights, waterproofing, layouts as easily

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I'll take a 1920s sh!tstack that has 100 years worth of maintenance and upgrades over a 7 year old builder grade home [/quote]

All day long.

New build is absolute garbage.[/quote]

some people can't think past paint, wood work and veneer finishes, the insides of the 1920s house has major problems to fix would need to tear it down. the new house just needs to change the veneer, paint, decor. people are dumb as they have no idea the house is more than just the veneer.[/quote]

This isn’t true. The houses in the deepest depths of “outdated” right now are 90’s McMansions. They have features like lawyer foyers, cat walks, cavernous living spaces with gigantic, stupid looking Palladian windows etc. Sure you can drywall around the decorative columns but a lot of what makes it dated is built into the house.

I’m not saying those things are so horrible, and you can often get a great long term deal imo by buying the thing that’s not in fashion. But in terms of the market overall, it’s not an easy fix. [/quote]

again that's style not the core or bones of the house, 90s homes and newer are built substantially better than homes pre 1980 and so on[/quote]

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