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Re:There Are No Dream Homes by ApolloFortyNine on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:55AM (#19499047)
Unless someone is going out of their way to buy a brand new home, nobody cares about the age. You have the home inspected, and if the roof is good (replaced recentlyish) and there's no structural damage, your good to go. It's not like depreciation on a used car. A house is a house.

Hell, lots of times newer homes are more shoddily built then older ones.

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Re:There Are No Dream Homes by saiya-jin on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:05AM (#19499418)
There are things which survive centuries like walls, and then stuff that slowly disintegrates and is a proper nightmare to change/replace - plumbing, electric wiring, general room layout with those thick structural walls, size/layout of windows etc.

I can guarantee you that electric wiring from 1970 is something different than that from 2010 (personal experience, sockets slowly failing).

Old apartment/house is definitely an additional maintenance cost and possibly tons of other inconveniences, and should be priced accordingly.

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