Would you buy a home with no central air? (wood flooring, ceiling, bedroom)
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I just put in wood flooring throughout the house and ceiling fans in every bedroom. I really want to sell in the next year (mortgage is high due to divorce), and I want to hear what everyone thinks.
I just put in wood flooring throughout the house and ceiling fans in every bedroom. I really want to sell in the next year (mortgage is high due to divorce), and I want to hear what everyone thinks.
I would be open-minded to it. I grew up without A/C and I can live without it.
Having said that, with all the properties for sale in most areas, if most comparables have A/C I would think you'd be at a major disadvantage. If I really liked multiple properties, the one without the A/C would come off my list.
It's like anything else; if the price is right . . .
if your priority is to sell quickly, then I'd either install the a/c or make your price comparatively attractive to those in your hood. Unless there is something particularly unique about your home and its location, I'd install the a/c if I could.
I have three homes in west Texas and New Mexico and none of them have central air. Whether or not real air conditioning is desirable for a home depends upon where you live. I would think AC would almost be a requirement in the Chicago area.
I find that, at least in my homes, very inexpensive swamp cooling works well enough most of the time and is much more preferable to the MUCH higher cost of central air which I have had in homes in Maryland and Louisiana.
I have three homes in west Texas and New Mexico and none of them have central air. Whether or not real air conditioning is desirable for a home depends upon where you live. I would think AC would almost be a requirement in the Chicago area.
Your post made me laugh. You think air conditioning is a requirement in Chicago but not Texas and New Mexico. That's actually funny!
I live in Pittsburgh and own a house without central air conditioning. Many people in my area don't have central air too.
Even though we get DREADFULLY humid summers, it's really only intollerable for a couple of weeks each year---at the most.
Winters are a bigger deal here. (Chicago is the same in that regard.) As a result, I'm much more interested in the heating system than the air conditioning system.
Furthermore, air conditioning make me sick----sinus infections, headaches, etc. Fresh air is much better for me in the summer.
Your post made me laugh. You think air conditioning is a requirement in Chicago but not Texas and New Mexico. That's actually funny!
I live in Pittsburgh and own a house without central air conditioning. Many people in my area don't have central air too.
Even though we get DREADFULLY humid summers, it's really only intolerable for a couple of weeks each year---at the most.
Winters are a bigger deal here. (Chicago is the same in that regard.) As a result, I'm much more interested in the heating system than the air conditioning system.
Furthermore, air conditioning make me sick----sinus infections, headaches, etc. Fresh air is much better for me in the summer.
Actually I've never spent any time in Chicago. I have just flown through O'Hare at times so I have no idea what it is like to live there. West Texas and New Mexico typically have low humidity which makes living without AC possible. It very rarely gets over 100 degrees in New Mexico and west Texas where my homes are located but it can get into the single digits here on the Texas southern High Plains during the winter at times for days. During these short periods, heat becomes a very large consideration here as well.
I don't like central AC not only for the fact that it is very expensive to operate and the fact it is an energy hog but I too have sinus problems whenever I have to be under an AC for any length of time. However ro give air conditioning its due, I grew up in a very humid area of deep east Texas (with only electric fans back then) and I find that it is humidity in any climate that bothers me the most.
Here in the Southwest, I too prefer fresh air. My nearest neighbor here at my west Texas home is 3/4 of a mile away and I normally get only one car a day past my house (the postman). My air is extremely fresh and that's the way I like it.
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