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I know it's a necrothread, but just bear in mind that if you share walls, you will always have the risk that Sammy Subwoofer will move in next door. I assure you there is no construction that will stop the transmission of bass notes; unless your town house is built with a pair of 8-10# concrete walls fully separated from each other, with no penetrations for wiring, AC, water pipes, etc, between each pair of units.
Is it worth buying a townhome for $200k, when the average single-family home in the same areas goes for $300k?
I don't know
What I do know is that your assumption that one option being objectively "better" than another is almost certainly not as true as both options having subjective pluses and minuses
Get a house. I would complain about a cigar smoking,poker playing, 3 am tv blasting person. Obviously the neighbor could hear you otherwise she wouldnt of called.
Maybe she has to get up for work at 4 am and doesnt want to hear a bunch of loud crap all night.
I dont think anyone should be living with that even if you think its not a big deal.
Just imagine if a family with breathing problems moved in. Or a baby...etc.
I plan on buying a house so I dont have to question it at all.
My friend can hear everything that goes on in his townhouse just like it was some crap apartment.
If you look at so many of the housing developments here in Las Vegas, with their postage stamp yards, and houses built so close to one another you can lean out the window and shake your neighbor's hands, it makes you wonder why would you not just buy a townhouse instead. With houses that close together, you're bound to have noise problems, drifting smoke from a cigar smoker.
The quality of the townhouse construction needs to be taken into consideration, first and foremost.
I don't trust any construction post 1975, and my townhouse was built in 1970, and the stucco is so thick on the outside walls you need a concrete drill bit to drill into it. Compare that to the newer construction where you can use the thinnest of nails to penetrate the stucco.
In my 21 years, I've witnessed 2 townhouses that caught fire, and with the last one, while the fire was raging, the next door neighbor couldn't be coerced into leaving by the Fire Department.
"Why should I? There's dual cinderblock fire walls between the units! I'm going to finish watching this TV show!"
When a unit goes up in flames here, it doesn't spread!
Now! If a fire developed in one of these housing developments with houses so close together, and happening on a windy night, Poof! There goes your neighboring house as this country foolishly refuses to build houses, like in Mexico, with concrete!
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