[quote=DataAgent]Our friends built a house from scratch. Extremely time-consuming. Those friends are now divorced. The house project brought out the worst in both of them.
In today’s market, you’ll probably get a better deal buying an existing property. Unless of course you have a special situation ie. you already own the land, your family owns a construcion company, or any house you buy would need extensive modification to accommodate physical disabilities.
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Agree with this.
We were considering buying a lot and building our own house, but after all the costs associated with building, we’d have to get the lot for almost nothing in order for the numbers to pencil out (i.e.: our finished house would have cost more than a similar existing house in the neighborhood).
Every single person we know who did this has said they would never do it again.
