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I'm with the "old" and 10 years certainly isn't "old" by any stretch! I only ever lived in one newly constructed place and I just don't like that sort of plastic conformity. Give me a real old, well-built house with character oozing from its pores any day!
I wouldn't even consider any developer production house built in the last 40 years- especially not one built in the last 20. Give me a house 60 years or older just to get me interested, although I would of course still turn down one that had a fatally flawed floor plan or major structural issues. Older homes in established neighborhoods have a great aesthetic and financial appeal to me. Newer houses in developments located in areas with lots of land available for further development always seem like a lose lose situation, you get a crappy house in areas where most folks much prefer to buy new, crappy houses down the street instead of one they consider "used".
A recent custom build, architect designed house could be a great home but those are exceedingly rare and one's which aren't over personalized rarer still.
Neither. I don't like new houses, but I also don't like old houses that are stripped of their character in the name of "updating".
Of course, a 10-year-old house is still new, and why on earth would anyone remodel a 10-year-old house anyway? That's just a waste of time, labor, resources, materials, and money.
I wouldn't buy a house built after 1970 anyway. I'm allergic to drywall.
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