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post 1698021243 02-18-2024, 08:31 AM
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Is it better to get cookie cutter new build homes or seek out a certain decade instea

instead?

In terms of quality only. Not mansions but just normal houses.
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Originally Posted By imbored205⏩
instead?

In terms of quality only. Not mansions but just normal houses.
Its a gamble.

If you get the cookie cutter new home builds, they're made with crap materials, but if you get an older home is going to need repairs, and will therefore be repaired with crappy new cuts of wood. As long as you don't live in an area thats prone to strong winds and hurricanes you should be okay.
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Originally Posted By Maestro⏩
Its a gamble.

If you get the cookie cutter new home builds, they're made with crap materials, but if you get an older home is going to need repairs, and will therefore be repaired with crappy new cuts of wood. As long as you don't live in an area thats prone to strong winds and hurricanes you should be okay.
Does north of Houston ever have strong winds and hurricanes??


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There is not much you can do either way, OP. Buy the house you like, make sure it is solid. I would focus more on the lot//location vs the house itself. I've seen people buy new cookie cutter houses cause it had everything they wanted. Often these houses are cranked out on whatever lots are left over in the neighborhood. Usually the best lots are already built on, and therefore the home will be older. People in the neighborhood who have the better lots, dont sell as often as people with chitty lots.....
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Originally Posted By Legendsneverdie⏩
There is not much you can do either way, OP. Buy the house you like, make sure it is solid. I would focus more on the lot//location vs the house itself. I've seen people buy new cookie cutter houses cause it had everything they wanted. Often these houses are cranked out on whatever lots are left over in the neighborhood. Usually the best lots are already built on, and therefore the home will be older. People in the neighborhood who have the better lots, dont sell as often as people with chitty lots.....
yep and a lot of these new homes on the market were built between 2020-2023 which are "pandemic builds" as in, rushed, and built by a skeleton crew with cheap materials because the price of lumber was sky high and the lumber mills started cutting corners (no pun intended) on the materials they made.
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The 80's/90's homes are the ones you want, last generation before they started building with immature wood

If you see a cookie-cutter development building up, avoid at all costs; they're putting those houses up in 3 days flat & are definitely cutting corners in every way possible



Pretty much any home built after 2010 is junk, my friend's 3 year old house already has interior paint peeling off the walls just lol
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Unless you get a custom build, the quality of houses built in the last 30 years is crap.

My place was built in the 50's and the trusses are huge pieces of wood (not 2x4s), much thicker and larger. And there are a million of them. Same with the floor joists. Trying to screw into them from the basement is very difficult.

I'm pretty confident a good size tree could fall on my room and the damage would be minimal.

My BIL bought his cookie cutter house 20 years ago and they trucked the freaking roof trusses in pre-assembled on a flatbed.
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basic houses built in the 80's are basically the size of a mansion
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Originally Posted By blissful88⏩
The 80's/90's homes are the ones you want, last generation before they started building with immature wood

If you see a cookie-cutter development building up, avoid at all costs; they're putting those houses up in 3 days flat & are definitely cutting corners in every way possible



Pretty much any home built after 2010 is junk, my friend's 3 year old house already has interior paint peeling off the walls just lol
New builds near me aren’t even sheeted anymore. Studs, tyvec and siding. Then sprayfoamed inside before drywall

I asked the contractor what provided them structure and he said the staircase and drywall lol
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New homes almost always have issues.

Older ones had issues but they are all worked out by the time you get it.
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I've always loved homes built between say, 1940 - 1980. Just be careful for lead paint and aluminim wiring, but I'd like to think any decently maintained home built from that era has had that kind of issue sorted out by now. But, worth checking into. 80's and 90's homes can be okay, too.

What I won't touch are homes built in the 2000's or after, or homes built pre 1940's, with select exceptions for homes from the 30's and less so the 20's. Homes started getting built with crappier materials around the early 2000's, and most homes built before the 40's are difficult to properly update.
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I wouldn’t buy a new build home even if I was a rentcel looking to invest the difference in real estate


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